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During the last 5 years I've been managing two fully remote small teams, across different time zones (one team CET+Philippines, the other one CET+India+Philippines).

Some of my takeaways:

* Doing a 15 minutes "daily standup" (we use hangouts, audio-only) is really, really useful. Of course, for some people the meeting won't be at the beginning of their day, but it can work all the same. It's the one thing that I would recommend the most: creating cohesion in a remote team is much more challenging than in person, and this helps a lot. Insist on everybody being on time: my teams are very, very flexible, except for this one rule. When somebody has a bad connection, they still participate in a group chat.

* For task management we use Trello (with a kanban-like approach). It's great for asynchronous communication - in one of the two teams, we even use it to communicate with the customer; this only worked after we were able to "educate" the customer about a scrum-like approach. Only try it if you have a very collaborative relationship with the customer.

* When there is the need to share longer specs than those that can fit on trello, we use google docs - the ability to collaborate both with real-time shared editing and with comments and suggestions is very valuable.

* For brainstorming, drawing architectural diagrams, discussing design etc. I find murally a godsent: https://mural.co/

* For quick real-time communication we use chat (again, hangouts). But whenever I see that it takes more than just a few lines to finish talking, I suggest increasing the bandwidth and upgrading to an audio call with screen-sharing. Some people don't like that very much, but we saved hundreds of hours - and a lot of frustration - by doing this.

* If the person you need isn't online right when you need them, we resort to comments on trello or just plain old email.

* Not everybody can work well remotely - it requires A LOT of self-discipline and self-motivation. At the beginning, I hired some people even if I had some doubts about those traits, or I started having those doubts in the first weeks, and tried many different ways to motivate them and get better results. I never succeeded - this could have been my limitation, but grooming devs remotely is objectively much more difficult than doing that in person. So, my suggestion is: when in doubt, don't hire. If you have doubts early on, fire (I don't like doing that, but paid a very heavy toll in terms of stress when I didn't do it).

Shameless plug: I'm currently looking for a career change. If interested, take a look at my profile :)
Mobile twitter site is shit, but the real irony here?

Twitter came up with the ui framework "Bootstrap" long ago and it was a game changer for responsive frontend layouts.
I really tried to skip all the mambojambo. Most recipes do not go into detail to answer the question of the why. It's almost like using any kind library when programming. You don't know the internals. My goal however is to really deep dive and actually go through the process of how the internals of that library work.
In the StarCraft community these are known as "barcode users". They often tend to be professional players on another account, to ensure that they aren't recognised and their opponents can't learn their playstyle.
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Anyone who works in IT knows how to setup and use VPN. Which I'm currently had to do as well (Russia).
I know in the case of CNC manufacturing, the devices were essentially programmable lathes and one can talk of a "CNC programmer" but the system was designed to leverage the existing knowledge and population of manual lathe operators and there's no relation to computer programmers and instead the "touch stone" is ordinary lath operation

There is a fascinating book "Forces of Production" [0] that analyzes the history of the development of numerical control in the 1960s that argues exactly the opposite. I read it many years ago, but I will try to summarize it TLDR style below:

Before software ate the world there were two competing approaches to automating machine tools:

- Record and Playback: a skilled machinist makes the part and the motions and operations are recorded. Subsequent parts can be made by playing back the recording on a machine with the assistance of a less skilled worker.

- Numerical Control: A white collar worker in an office writes a script (in G Code [1]) to control the tool which is then played on the machine attended by a less skilled worker.

This was a hard problem at the time and technically Record and Playback was easier and worked better. However management, particularly at GE, resented the power of the skilled machinists who had effective unions and were not replaceable in the event of a strike. So despite the advantages of Record/Playback they persisted for years to create the NC technology as it let them replace highly skilled union labor with coding monkeys. The parallels with the present day seem obvious but oddly underappreciated.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/625055.Forces_of_Product...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-code
Fascinating object. Got me thinking. While the wood is probably at least that old, the carving isn't necessarily quite that old.

WP says Larch is 'waterproof' and 'resistant to rot when in contact with the ground'. And it's a conifer that loses its needles in the fall. Now consider that it can grow as far north as 'the tundra and polar ice' and is 'very long-lived'.

Consider that the outside was dated at 9800ya in the 1990s, but in 2014 the core (the oldest part of any tree) dates to 11,600.

Here in the US, the glaciers were done melting to about 45N by 9000 ya. (Yekaterinburg is at 56N, so maybe more like 7500ya?).

Just for fun, suppose that the wood had been stuck in a glacier for a very long time, say 2000 years. When the carver found it. Are there any C14-dating/Russian glaciologist folk here to explain those two sample dates? Could it have been in a glacier longer than 2000 years?
Why would there be? You'd put salt in the mother dough, not the sourdough.
> creature comforts! They don't have Costco or Trader Joes or good diners

Hmm...I think you'll find that the creature comforts are actually a lot more comfy in most of Europe, which is of course a very large and diverse area. Of course, it will take you a while to figure those out, because things are different.
The bad part of credit card fraud is that the card network, issuing bank & gateways pass on the liability to the small merchant. There is always a looming risk of losing your account & business due to excessive fraud, something over which you have no control at times. If you become over aggressive with fraud protection, you risk not only losing revenue but pissing off genuine customers.

Your gateway would tell you that as a merchant, it's your job & responsibility to accept a charge & related risk of fraud. Well, if big guys handling billions of payments can't catch fraud, it's quite easy for a small guy to miss it as well.

When you are selling a digital product, it's very difficult to win a chargeback. Some low level bank employee hardly cares about your meticulous documentation & proof that you delivered the product.

3D secure is one way to shift liability to issuing bank but it only works for the first charge (not recurring subscription). There are lots of reasons for getting hit by incorrect chargebacks e.g. mistake on part of a customer because they didn't recognize, customer's card getting stolen midway during a subscription, unhappy customer who wants a refund after using your service for months etc.

I wish the industry would side with the merchant as well at times i.e. maybe a rating system to see how easy is the merchant's cancellation / refund policy etc.
This otherwise great article is interrupted by a native ad in favor of gun control in the US.

While that might be a worthwhile goal as well, I do not get the need for both sides to cram it into so many unrelated pieces.
And since Apollo 11, nothing. Can be for lack of trying, but likely it's also that low hanging fruit has been picked and it's really difficult to continue.
No salt at all in the sour dough. When baking you will add salt. I like around 2%. But in the mother sour dough you do not want any salt. This link is only about how to get your actual mother sour dough, not baking! That's still TODO and will follow up later.

Edit:

2% of the flour's weight in salt. Let's say you bake 700 grams of flour (500 grams flour, 200 grams sour dough) then you would add 14 grams of salt. Note please that this is my personal preference. It could be you prefer more or less salt.
The person you are replying to knows that. He is saying its funny how if you took both people, and put them in the opposite country and had them commit the "same act" that they had done in their home country they would be fine. i.e. copying cds and distributing them is OK by china, and blog posts about unethical advertising of medicine is OK by the US.
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It's funny about the social connections... I feel like I could emigrate no problem, because I already left everybody behind when I quit Facebook. Or here's a twist, I could rejoin Facebook and "work remote" from anywhere.

I've never felt as weak an affinity with the USA as I do now, but habit and inertia have kept me here so far...
i like Swift, i think, but prefer something more dynamically typed i guess. Swift gives me that “i’m using C++” feeling.
There is a chance, admittedly probably not a good one, that my DNA could be in a database associated with a rape or murder. Maybe yours might be as well. When I was in high school, I found a bit of cloth in the woods. No idea where it came from. But it got used to clean up after some coital fun and then discarded (I think in a parking garage?). Who knows where it eventually landed and whether it was taken as concrete physical evidence of my involvement in something? If only not being found guilty of things was as easy as not hurting anyone...
But there is no moral lesson here. This isn't Damon and Pythias, it's not tutelary. It's argumentative. It does not make for a good narrative alone (at least then you would know which side was able to attract the skill of an artist!), its only content is the argument. Only the argument is couched in a fictional world that allows it to avoid addressing any counter-argument altogether. The fact that it is followed by an explicit argument only makes it stranger.
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Pizzamaking.com was one of my first communities and it was eye-opening to see how passionate people were about their craft even as hobbyists.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised it's still active given their tenacity and older audience.
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That's true of almost all products, and certainly of most cars. A 2017 Honda Civic is better than a 1977 Honda Civic. But you can't drive a 2017 Civic in 1978.
The metaphor you're referring to is more accurately described as hyperbole.

But it isn't. It's a completely ordinary turn of phrase.

It doesn't matter if the CNN article was a piece of analysis or reporting.

That matters an awful lot.

My original point "'truth' is not sufficient to eliminate bias" has been left uncontested.

Sure. I'm contesting your ability to support that point.
My bread has much better flavor if I let the dough sit in the fridge for four days.
I mean--ingenious, but I was looking for something more advanced :-)
It's worth noting you don't even have to freeze it. Spread it out onto a sheet of plastic wrap or wax paper or something, let it dry, crumble it into flakes and store somewhere dry and a temp-stable. I've reconstituted starter from flakes like this at least 6 months out and I'd be willing to bet it'd work at much longer timescales.
iPhone was absolutely the first of it's kind. In a lot of ways it was a repudiation of the existing phone/pda devices at the time.
I only want to say something about the "gun" subject in the article, since she gives it a prominent place.

I'm from East Germany originally (used to live in the US for a decade). That country was the true successor of Prussia as far as militaristic traditions go. While we did have "gun control", so no weapons other than air guns at home for most people, shooting was very much part of culture. I was taught marching like a professional soldier as part of school, before job training and studying. Same goes for shooting (small caliber weapons), throwing hand grenades (replicas of hand grenades were used in throwing exercises during normal sports lessons), how to use chemical protection gear and a gas mask, and a lot more.

The real difference, and this is my point that I think is usually missed about US gun culture, was that never, ever did it occur to me as a gun-obsessed child that if I had more than two air guns at home, or even for those, that I should ever want to use weapons against my fellow citizens.

Weapons were always for only three purposes: sports, hunting (organized and government regulated and controlled, not "for fun") and military.

In all the discussions about US gun culture, to me this is the far larger factor than just having access to guns, that the thought that this could be used in "self defense" against your own people exists. I sure had a lot of "gun fantasies" as a child and would happily have owned a "real" gun, but never, ever would it have occurred to me that I could use this against people, except for in military conflict.

You can restrict access all you want, and I'm sure that will limit some problems, but to me it seems unless there is a much, much deeper change in attitude that will only be a band aid removing the worst symptoms of a problem that goes deeper and is much more broad. This probably cannot be changed though. It's an attitude I find in too many movies produced in the US (unless it's romance or comedy and has no guns), it's all about fighting/shooting people.
> They don't have Costco or Trader Joes or good diners in Europe.

That you include chains of whatever on the list of downsides to leaving your country, says something. Maybe something about you, maybe something about your country. It's not good what it says though.

EDIT: I think you might be the kind of person the author is talked about when she says "brainwashed". If the specific franchise of restaurant that you like is such a huge factor in your life, maybe you've just been brainwashed. And this is not even mentioning the breathtaking ignorance of saying there's no good diners "in Europe".
It seems a bit gross when usernames and normal pages are mashed into the same namespace, e.g.

https://twitter.com/search

I guess Github does the same:

https://github.com/pulls

Reddit has the nice /u/... thing, but I suppose that is a bit awkward when saying URLs out loud.
I think the idea is good, but in reality you can sign your commits. Plus if you have SHA access then it should represent you.
This is an interesting article from the point of view of someone living in Europe. She moves away from the US because she wants out of the rat race:

> "I grew up believing that having money was an objective to strive for and that life was a ruthless competition. I worked hard in school and got a good job because that was what was expected of me. That was the path that was supposed to bring me happiness, except I followed that path, and I wasn’t happy."

Finally, she ends up living in Europe:

> "I certainly could say more about the work-life balance provided by the 35-hour workweek, the five weeks of paid vacation I enjoy each year, the two years paid unemployment benefits I would receive should I lose my job, my access to free health care, paid maternity leave, affordable child care, free education from age 3 through to university or the state-provided retirement pension I will receive at age 65."

The funny thing is, that as someone who grew up in Europe, with all those things she raves about, I feel exactly like she did in the beginning of the story. I feel like being in the rat race just like she did. Those 5 weeks of paid vacation feel more like an insult than a benefit. You get to taste a little bit of freedom for a short while and then it's back to dayprison. Retirement at 65 is a pipe dream, the boomers spent all the retirement money already and retirement age is slowly rising (currently at 67), by the time I turn 67 in 30 years I'm sure it has been raised even further or more likely there won't be any kind of state pension anymore.

Not that I expect to ever get that old. 8 hour workdays are insane, it's an arbitrary number and yet the whole of society is based around it. It leaves people too exhausted to enjoy life and causes so much stress I'm actually surprised anyone makes it to pension age. I fully expect to die of a stress-related heart attack or similar way before I get to enjoy any kind of pension.
It's the same ot worse for phones, yes.
60GHz? Does it go through walls though? 5GHz hardly goes through some walls.
2% bp not total weight. Should probably clarify since this isn't a baking audience
You don't seem a death-worshipper. This is only skepticism about the practicality of eliminating death, not a rejection of the central thesis that "The dragon is bad!".
I thought it was funny and kind of charming that Vsauce is the single account they follow.
To reduce the stale opening procedure and introduce greater opening-diversity, there is a great variant specifically designed with that in mind called chess960, or Fischer Random.

In case you haven't checked it out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess960
It also made the old bulbs extremely cheap for a while which was hilarious.
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To be fair, when freezing bacteria in a lab, you usually add glycerol to help avoid ice crystals (which is the thing that would kill the bacteria in the first place). That's not something you'd necessarily do here. However, so long as the dough mixture isn't too wet, I wouldn't see why it couldn't be frozen as-is
isnt this the exact usecase that kafka solves ? Its great to see redis being able to do it just as well as kafka probably.

I'm quite interested to see how they implemented a queueing solution without the new Redis Streams infrastructure.
> They don't have (..) good diners in Europe.

LOLWUT ?

She mentions she lives in the south of France. I don't think she has to worry about access to good food. Why would anyone who moved to Europe want to go back to the US for their shitty food ?
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Some people are resistant to logical argument on some topics, because of natural human tendencies.

A fictional narrative tries to do an end-run around our cognitive biases by presenting a logically consistent, but still very fictional, story and then inviting comparison to real-world parallels.

Since the person performing the comparison and championing each side is yourself, it's much harder to dismiss one of the views as being purposefully misrepresented, or portions being played down or up to fit the argument. The way to deal with the logical inconsistency is to reassess and admit the faults of each side (if any exist).

This is fairly common in Science Fiction, and why if the author has done a good job it can often change how you think the future will be in a much more definitive way that some simple statement might.
Given that you're not handicapped by having your talent pool reduced to those physically close to you by happenstance or willing to uproot their life to get physically near an office, does each opening result in a flood of applicants? Do you find this to be a boon, or a hindrance? You might not be able to compare, but do you think that it makes hiring easier or harder?
It could be argued that shooting your classmates is not that different from backstabbing your office colleguages in order to live out the american dream of coming out on top of everyone else; or at least that is what this guy does in https://eand.co/why-were-underestimating-american-collapse-b....
The simple reality is that most moderators on the internet are 18-24 year-olds that are still too much into a teenage ego trip. More mature people are often more busy with work or they just don't give a fuck.

That's why the only fora that are fun are either vote-based or almost entirely unmoderated.
Maybe he's not like "most people", the point is that you can not know.
Great article by Carylyne of Coinusage
I wonder if that photo at the top was taken in Guadeloupe? The vibrant green color of the plants and trees seems to indicate this.
Probably because chrome dev tools doesn't have that :)
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IMHO, they have simply bought Vrvana and let them work further, for who knows which time targets. And even if those working on the experiments have fixed and shorter-time goals, it doesn't mean that a finished product will actually be delivered to the market. But the rumors spread, which is in the interest of a lot of media:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/21/apple-acquires-mixed-reali...

Additionally, typically the "other players" in the given field like to support the rumors that what they want to deliver is also "the next thing from Apple" too. More than once I've read claims that "Apple is producing" the features of iPhone that more matched the short-time next that was released by Samsung then what Apple actually produced, typically much later, even some years later.
Isn’t that illegal under GDPR? It’s also easy to catch by targeting the major ad companies with an ‘undercover sting’ company. They’d get away with it for all of one day probably.
It was on their property ... they said. But look at the story closely and it was very closely checked against many possibilities. SFGate ran a great article on that in 2014: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Black-Bart-Jesse-James-W...
As a European looking out the US is often befuddling. The insanity of healthcare, attitude to firearms, extreme media bias and seemingly unquestioning nationalism are worrisome to say the least.

I’ve been there several times for conferences and I’ve always been happy to leave. The constant feeling of being bleed for cash at every opportunity coupled with the fake over sincerity is frustrating.

As an Irishman there is a strong connection between our countries and many colleagues have made the move and seem happy. I can’t imagine wanting to live there, at least in the world described in the article and around big city conference centers.

Also the chocolate is atrocious.
> Matherson said Cloud "was created as a way to connect with our readers...and give us the technical ability to post content to the Wordpress website."

Um. What?
Have experience working in teams up to 9 time zones apart, but not working at Zapier.

I have phone set up to not disturb me with notifications between 10pm and 7am so I wouldn't mind as long as nobody expects a response before next working day morning. Before I could do that I simply did not have company's chat/email on my phone.

My day starts with reviewing any received messages (no matter what channel -- email, chat...) and responding to them. I would find it unprofessional if someone did not. If this wasn't just an occasional oversight, then I would take it up with them.
> American view of freedom

You've got to be kidding.
I'm really struggling to know who their target audience is with this stuff. I watched their marketing materials... I just don't get it.

Meanwhile, some features I think they are still missing the boat on:

1) Driver Updates. I want a tool that will go out and download the latest drivers for all my stuff.

2) Password manager integration; I don't want to have to type or copy paste passwords I just want them all pulled from my password manager.

3) Clipboard history; like Jumpcut or CopyClip.

4) Cloud font sync; like SkyFonts.

5) Better screenshot annotation tools; like Skitch.

6) Better ad block; like Stephen Black's hosts file.

7) Most importantly, better privacy and the option to turn off all tracking by Microsoft.