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I believe that a contributing factor to the pay gap in Europe is the fact that we have so many languages, that we are too segregated to create the same level of competitiveness as seen in the US.
This means that each country is fairly protective of its people, and even though EU has free movement of labour, the language and culture barrier is strong, and internationals have a harder time to get hired, unless the speak the local language.

So the end results is that talent is spread across, and no single country has ability to become the place to be.
Those few thousand dollars saved are not worth the higher risk (and the risk is high)
If they call lock-in and making it very hard to leave "Loyalty", then these businesses are truly delusional.

If people can leave easily they'll be forced to earn genuine loyalty, not this fake kind.
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The best programming language is the one which can get the job done. PHP is a well established backend stack and in no way inferior to the latest sexy stacks
I never got a $100k bonus as a T5. I was at Superb when I left too.
I don't know Go, but looking at the code it doesn't look like it handles sites that are rendered on the client, if so it has limited utility in today's web.
I'm still trying to figure out the whole small company scene.

I've mostly worked at large (>10k people), though not necessarily hot, tech companies with established tech ladders.

Now I'm working at a small (<500 people) SaaS company in a non-tech sector. While there are definitely some perks (including, oddly, better pay) I have some concerns directly related to the size of the company and the lack of a ladder:

First, lack of opportunity for specialization. People who reach the top of tech ladders are often genuinely capable specialists in some sub-discipline. One has to specialize to develop mastery. When done well, a tech ladder provides a useful framework within which to cultivate mastery.

The question becomes, how do you develop (transferable) mastery in an environment that isn't organized to exploit it? Partly I'm hoping that as the company grows, I can grow my skill set towards and expertise that the company will be prepared to use.

Second, when the company is small enough, it's still possible for founders/execs to interfere with even relatively mundane technical decisions. Now, I think the people I work for are quite competent, and I actually have gotten to know them (which wouldn't happen at a big company). I'm just saying that for small companies it can be hard for those at the top to let go of control and switch to a more delegated mode of decision making.

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Hold on, so there's possible collusion to stop the standard happening?

And now a govt investigation of that possible collusion is ... stopping the standard happening?
No the proposal is to apply the GDPR to the large organizations that can afford to implement it properly. It's not black and white ;)
You seem to be forgetting that small companies have small databases. Getting removed from a manually handled filling cabinet is easy. Add is from a manually managed database, even when it is backed up regularly.

It is also trivial to enforce a routine manual scrub of small amounts of private data.

The only people who might have trouble are "small" data resellers having millions of accounts of personal data. It is good they will have to comply.
Also - he's a software engineer - one of the best paid careers at the moment (and in the US). I also work in IT (not in the US) and get paid 5x times what my former highschool colleagues make. But I don't rub salt in their wounds that I am able to save 60-70% of my income.
It's analog promotion, not digital, in a small company.

You gradually accumulate authority and responsibility over time. Payrises happen when you manage to convince the owner you need more money, rather than on a HR-managed pay scale. Eventually you'll get a new job title that reflects your current role.
like they once said about gender: currency is a text field.
you don't need the chinese, DNS blocking is used in many european countries even today, to block torrent or streaming sites.
The article doesn't mention it, but I think Fabrice Bellards PoC [1], in which he generated a valid DVB-T and PAL/SECAM carriers using a graphics card (2005), is very elegant and highly related prior art.

[1] https://bellard.org/dvbt/
Can anyone really keep up with Youtube's policies anymore? Especially when they're partially created and enforced by automated scripts? I keep hoping that the worse this situation becomes the better incentives people will have to move to alternatives. A man can dream.
> When did people ever have a right to be forgotten?

Rehabilitation of offenders act came into force in UK in 1974, so over 40 years.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/53/introduction
"Quantum" is a science-y sounding word which sensationalist scientists use to push their otherwise inexplicable "exciting" ideas for fundraising. It's a joke in itself. A parody of what physics actually is.

Even the actual scientist who formulated Quantum Electrodynamics didn't quite understand what quantum is and what to make of it, nor did he find a way to properly explain it. This term and the theories behind it were used just to explain some connections in phenomena, not to invent new ones! Quantum laser, quantum liquid, quantum crystals, quantum nose, quantum ass!

There was a post here somewhere, discussing that science isn't exactly science anymore when it very closely resembles its own stereotype. A philosopher for example today isn't someone who actually thinks, but rather a person who writes non-sense papers just for the sake to be published in a major journal, because otherwise they can't find a job. So, it's not the scientists who publish science-y papers who deserve credit. I don't know who deserves any credit anymore. Academia makes me sick to my stomach.
It's not like they aren't paid in reputation though. Because it's a novel surgery, they're now the world's leading experts on applying this surgery successfully, and that makes them the first phone call for anybody with deep pockets who wants to make it happen. Not to mention being published, talking about the surgery in conferences, etc.

The patient may not have paid in money, but they did pay in taking a very significant risk of unforeseeable complications. It's not so clear cut.
How do you know that is his IP address, or someone else's IP address? Under GDPR it doesn't matter who's they are.

Here is another piece of GDPR PII:

9-5 Allée des 4 Vents
69160 Tassin-la-Demi-Lune, France

Random address I pulled from google maps of someone's house.
I feel like the kind of people that go to a hackathon are the kinds of people that are looking for some sort of in-group/out-group dynamic, and programming language choice is the easiest way to decide who is in and who is out. When they get older they'll realize it's not worth the effort.
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Or that it works great with GitHub, GitHub Enterprise & JIRA and has awesome integration with Skaffold?

Or easy setup a kubernetes cluster with Jenkins X on any public cloud in one command: http://jenkins-x.io/getting-started/create-cluster/
+5 points for you.
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I can imagine a subscription service where you could pay to access a bunch of RSS feeds.

The fundamental problem is that people are used to not paying for content. But one of the things that has changed over the twenty years that the article talks about is that people are more willing to pay for things on the internet.
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Because it's easier to get a successful judgement against a small timer who is probably not doing it correctly vs a well funded large company. Both will happen, for different career incentive reasons.
More like collusion to fundamentally break the standard before it is allowed to flourish. What if you had a power plug that worked with outlets anywhere, except if you plugged it in in certain businesses, whereby they only were usable at said business, and were a brick otherwise. This is what AT&T has been doing with Apple's eSIMs.
Yeah you're not losing by syndicating a podcast if you're selling ads on your program you just want as wide a reach as possible.
While I don't disagree with your argument, the disparity is not quite that high (talking about Germany).

A Uni Doctorate Position in Germany is 44k in the first year, ~49k from the second year (EUR before deductions) as per official TVL13 tariff.
You are probably referring to the fact that it's common for PhD students to have 'half' or '3/4' positions, but afaik in CS, and especially AI, full positions are the norm.

The Industry figures seem on point.
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I don’t know, but if you multiply the cost of defending one of them by the millions of such nuisance claims that will be filed by people, and it will quickly add up.
I tried to install this by searching for "HackNews" in the Play Store, however it doesn't appear in the search results. Any idea why?

As a side note: WOW, I didn't realise there were that many Hacker News clients on the Play Store. Is this the TodoMVC of app programming?

The app itself is pretty neat, but I was a little put off by the advertising. With so many free alternatives in this space I'm not sure you'll be able to sell many pro upgrades.

Personally, I mostly use Hacker News in the browser these days because it is a responsive website since a while.
Memetics does provide a useful way of understanding cultural evolution
Thanks, the trio tutorial is really enlightening!

I was hoping (with Python, not trio in particular) that it would all end up with something like Promises which make coding really easy but I guess not.

This is of course a matter of personal taste, but having

call_a_asynch_function(with, some, parameters)
.then(with_the_result_when_it_comes => do_something)
some_other_codre_which_runs_synchronously
and_some_more

seems easier to my eye than the whole idea of calling await in async functions
The same can be said for JavaScript. Even worse can be said of JavaScript, a PHP developer will have to learn JavaScript for any client side behaviour, whereas the entire JavaScript community has rebuilt large code bases to not have to learn anything else.
Niether AT&T or Verizon care about loyalty. The higher the cost to switch, the better as far as their concerned. Similarly, Sprint has survived a decade on a slowly shrinking business customer base, with losses mainly forestalled by the roadblocks they like to throw out when porting hundreds of phone numbers and device incompatability with other networks.

If the switching cost is too high, people won't switch!
Of course it's biased, and why do I care about the absolute scale of things ?

Would you buy a McLaren F1 to go grocery shopping ? this is how the mind expanding thing feels to me. Just clean and use your mercedes sedan.
> I’m in the UK, intending to move out for obvious reasons

I thought you meant pay by this, but then you include Berlin in your list of potential places... Is there other reasons I'm missing out on? Genuinely curious
But why put it on hold? Wouldn't it make more sense to fast-track instead after these signs of carrier collusion are coming to the surface?
The things you gain from switching to Jenkins X:

* automated CI/CD for your kubernetes based applications using Helm Charts & GitOps to manage promotions (manual or automated)

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* automated release notes + change logs with links to github/JIRA issues etc

* feedback on issues as they move from Staging -> Production

i.e. more automation around CI/CD and kubernetes so you can spend more time focussing on building your apps and less time installing/configuring/managing Jenkins + Pipelines
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I agree. Maybe it was hand implemented in python with lots of memory allocation and a few defects that made it accidentally quadratic.
Great book, just finished the other day. Do you have any other similar suggestions?
This is so true. I used PHP for 4 years just because I didn't knew anything else. Now I know python, java, javascript, rust and my decision to stick at javascript was clear and prudent.
Today I would never devil anyone for using php or whatever feels good for them.
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That’s not necessarily true. I learned BASIC and C/C++ first, then Java, then six years of .NET, but almost only used PHP for the last decade because that’s just what’s used in the market I work in (e.g. content managed websites).

People are going to use what makes them money, and what makes the most sense for the project.

Thankfully when using the right frameworks modern PHP feels more like a real OO language instead of the clusterfuck it used to be.
> can they just sell it to whoever they want?

No. If you process my data you can only give / sell it to other companies that are GDPR compliant.

People keep saying that GDPR means you must have consent, but that's not true for all forms of GDPR compliance.

If I have a small business with 5 employees, and I use a company to do payroll, I don't need to get my employee's permission to send their data to the payroll company. I do need to tell them it's happening, and give them the ability to query what data is being held and processed, and to make corrections to incorrect data.
I'm unsure, I think it's custom or something vintage (both).

No one uses mercury any more as a working fluid in the pump. you use vacuum rated oil instead. And he's definitely using mercury. Also looks like a two stage piston pump. And mostly people use liquid ring vacuum pumps as roughing pumps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21lk8Du85bE

Difficulty the roughing pump only gets you to a few microns at best. Good enough for neon work. But tubes require a hard vacuum. Need a diffusion pump (hot oil vapor) or turbo molecular pump (ultra high speed 'fan') after the roughing pump.

I don't think he's using a diffusion pump or turbo molecular pump.
I always made fun of php. No reason, I've never truly worked with it in depth and I'm also not the best JS dev. I never attacked a person for writing php I just mocked php itself. Even so, this made me feel bad and I'm going to change my attitude. Nobody should feel bad for doing something they enjoy. <3
Under the GDPR, who would they buy it from? A company that sells the data would have to have the user’s consent to sell on their personal data.
Buy used. Nintendo won't get a cent, you'll pay less, and you won't be hit so hard in the wallet if your device fails after this mod.
There might also be a difference between the Länder.

Case in point: A friend and colleague of mine had a full position in Dresden (AI) and he got a little more than 30k (AFAIR before deductions). That was around 2009 I guess.

Maybe in high rent cities (Munich, ...) it's different?
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Deletion is one tiny part of this terrible law. I suspect that most of the trouble will come from undisclosed third party trackers that the site may not even know is there. For example, imagine a company uses an image from an image hosting company like imgur on some of its pages, and at some point the image host decides to start sending its own cookies. That completely innocent scenario could result in millions of dollars in fines for the site under GDPR. Because of this singular issue, all forums that have ever allowed users to post images from third party sites (which most do) will likely run afoul of the GDPR, simply because they will be causing tracking cookies to load that they don’t even know about - and this is just one of hundreds of examples of issues that will put massive swaths of sites in violation and make them subject to fines by revenue-hungry EU member states.
> and that isn't the same as what can be done in a small-diameter missile

Which was the genius idea behind Track-via-Missile in the Patriot SAM

Instead of having the missile work-out the best interception based on what it can detect, it relays its view of the World back to the ground station which returns its recommended geometry. Constantly and at high frequency.

And since the ground station is more powerful and can be upgraded more easily than the missile's electronics, Patriot has made huge improvements since the 1991 Scud incidents.

In an anti-stealth context having each missile 'see' from a different angle and being able to fuse that I to one picture is also useful in defeating shaped reflections. It's like a network of remote, lethal sensors.
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You're saying millions of people will be willing to commit several criminal offences in order to attempt to get a payout of about £1000, in a system that routinely doesn't pay for psychological harm?

I mean, those people can already do this, and they don't appear to do it, so I'm not persuaded GDPR will trigger a bunch of claims.
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long gone by now

The snapshot you linked in from September 2017...
Fair enough, I suppose. I still think the additional complexity of having to bring in the context for the save of passing 1 variable through the whole tree is overkill though.
The limit is per _hostname_ not per _server_ (unless things have changed in the last 10 years).

This is why you'll see assets1.foo.com, assets2.foo.com, etc. all pointing to the same IP address(es). Server-side code picks one based on a modulus of a hash of the filename or something similar when rendering the HTML to get additional pipelines in the user's browser. Not sure how or if this is done in SPA.
That may be because the market already had accounted for it.
my thinking is quite simple:

- most of my deepest happy moments had probably few ties to technology and were mostly a blend of ignorant fueled magic (that is the "few".. I did enjoy video games to death as a kid[1]) and human relationship in plain nature.

- the more tech, the less of the previously mentioned I see. For the social marketing spread, it feels quite individualistic in effect (know more, see more, save more, even sharing more is often twisted into a shallow game of upvote)

therefore I'm not thrilled by tech

[1] I did love tech to bits but growing up this feeling vanished a lot. I also realize the beauty is really subjective. We feel that it's a more valueable thing because it's "hard science" based. chemistry, electronics... But when you peel the layers you realize that a lot of it was mostly socially driven and imagination. I often think that for people that lived in forest long ago, this feeling of beauty was probably here, but projected onto what they had there, plants, animals, gems.
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For those wanting to use this feature, Chrome already landed support for this. Also, other browsers are following soon https://twitter.com/mikewest/status/988692500947853312
Most things in life are a trade-off. If there is no trade-off, everyone would pick the winner.

Manually testing your bugs is still cheaper in time and effort than writing unit tests. If it was not, everyone would write unit tests.

Unit tests need to be able to fit into your codebase, sometimes contain bugs too, need to be maintained, slows down your release cycle, etc. I'm not claiming they are bad, I'm claiming it's a trade-off that you make in favor of quality, stability, etc.

Unit tests also need to be produced by expensive, probably scarce programmers. Sometimes it's better to hire 'cheap' testers that can script tests into your framework.

That's why I like to talk about return on investment. If you put in the extra effort of writing a test, you expect this to pay off in the long run.

Nothing is cheaper than not testing your bug after you fixed it. But the chance that a lot of time will be wasted afterwards because it wasn't actually fixed is huge. So basically you have to find the most optimal way to spend your effort.

And like I said previously, our statistics showed that writing unit tests on found bugs wasn't the optimal way to spend our programmers effort.
I think he's talking about the upcoming Brexit :)
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Nice, but where can I actually buy those things? A quick web search doesn't get me anywhere.

EDIT: it looks like it's just the chipset and it's not sold directly - instead, one should look for devices based on it. I wonder if they have any competition, or whether I can just safely assume that any USB3.0 to VGA dongle will work.

EDIT2: Also found this:

> If they are advertised with 2048 × 1152 maximum resolution and support for Mac OS X, or only have a USB 2.0 interface, they contain a DisplayLink chipset and are not compatible with osmo-fl2k! The price range for the FL2000-based adapters is $5-15, whereas the DisplayLink devices typically cost more than $25. Also note that devices sold with USB type C connector contain a different chipset (e.g. Realtek RTD2166) and are just DisplayPort to VGA converters.
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Unfortunately, one of the things from Morrowind which did not make it to Oblivion was the ability to make damage spells which target self. And in Skyrim they had removed the ability to make your own spells entirely.

In Morrowind I used this to create an extremely long-lasting fire spell dealing 0 damage to self. The result was a spell which cost barely any mana and resulted in you walking around engulfed in harmless flames. A really cool visual touch.
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Brexit. I could go on for ages about specifics, but experience says that nobody outside the UK really cares (it’s so 2016), and nobody inside the UK is changing their minds.
"I have extreme confidence in what our scientists can do, especially when you stop giving them easy money"

Yeah, as a scientist there's nothing like underfunding when it comes to doing great things! Having to reduce the team letting people go, work with obsolete/scarce equipment, and spend the majority of the time writing grant proposals to beg for some money to move forward, are great boosts indeed. And surely the great advances of science have not been associated to large labs with huge resources, often related to the deep pockets of the military...