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Oh come on. Being 50 or even 60 does not make you unemployable. Maybe that is true for web development in the Bay Area? It certainly isn't true for all the places I've worked at, all doing serious low-level engineering in less-trendy locations. I'm 43, and yes there are young people, but there are also multiple people past age 60 who are still doing technical work.

I think I could get you a job "in a grey box on a plain chair and table", though mostly my employer does drywall. There are several chair and desk/table choices.

You get money and various extras like health coverage, 401K, etc. Your preference to "do a great and professional job" "in a chair and table at an office" is fine. There are a few silly trinkets, easy to ignore.

You can "leave early for example to pick up the kids" or for no reason at all. You just need maintain a long-term average of 40 hours per week, and even that can be negotiated if you are really good or have a temporary situation. Some people keep early hours, some people keep late hours, and some people work hours that are pretty random. I take decently full advantage of this, typically showing up in the afternoon. It really makes a quality-of-life difference to be able to go do stuff in the middle of the day without begging for permission.

Believing in the mission of the company is a funny thing in my case. It's almost the same as patriotism. If you would have positive feelings about a huge American flag in the cafeteria, maybe it is the right environment for you. If that makes you uncomfortable, you'd best NOPE NOPE NOPE out of this one.

I'll try to remember to put a proper job description in the next "Who is Hiring?" thread, but FYI: It's the sort of job for people who like writing boot loaders, kernels, emulators, decompilers, hypervisors, JIT engines, and similar stuff. You can email me at users.sf.net, with account name albert.
To the extent that marginalized groups have a different style of communication than what is expected at SO, they will be treated differently. You don't have to explicitly know their background.
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The idea that everybody must work and people that don't are a kind of evil, that everybody must sacrifice something (even when nobody actually needs it) to justify their fundamental needs being fulfilled (even if it doesn't actually cost anything) is itself a fundamental evil. The real virtue of economic development is setting everybody free.
This is true, but this increase still comes in at slightly cheaper than Netflix and includes a comparable streaming service. From this perspective the free shipping is simply a bonus.
One of the biggest problems, if not the biggest, for people in tech (especially new CS students, etc) is knowing how to ask the right questions. There's several 'layers' of tech-speak that people learn (or not) to adopt, and many ways of asking essentially the same question.

These practices of gatekeeping, being opaque, and failing to practice patience and interactive dialogue on SO are extremely frustrating, and cause the system to fail to support some of the people that most stand to benefit from the community. It creates an attitude of elitism, and while I see how these attitudes can be self-serving for the karma elites, and help create a perception of the community being concise and clean. But it leaves many people falling through the cracks, and when questions aren't answered within 3-5 replies, the threads are often locked, deleted, and otherwise 'swept under the carpet'.

For this reason, I don't contribute to SO at all anymore. If it comes up as a result in a Google search when I need help with something, I'll use the info made available, but otherwise I'm intentionally just a leech because I don't feel it's worth navigating all the negative aspects in order to contribute.

Edit: I do hope that the changes and attitude they've outlined in the OP blog post do help resolve a lot of what I've just described, and I do intend to re-evaluate my opinion after enough time has passed for real changes to manifest.
Well, Apple's logo is a sideways bitten apple. It's a cartoon too, just more stylish.
Not to be pedantic but it'd be $119 in shipping costs for break even?

Amazon offers free shipping for orders over $50, already. While it's not the 2 day benefit. It really comes down to if you want to order X amount of small items that can't wait for you to order multiple cheap items together. So it'll depend upon your value of patience and how you evaluate the value of your time waiting.

Over a year ago because of issues with a bad Amazon customer service experience, I canceled prime. I now just wait a little longer for shipment and to order (when I have several items) and so I 100% have saved money being patient.

After overcoming the fake urgency, I think it's all mostly a scam.

Unless, you use the other services enough.

You can still pay for fast shipping and rent a prime movie a few times a year and still be better off.
I don't really buy much from Amazon these days. I think it has a perception of good value more than it actually is. (I'm in the UK).

1) I can usually find nearly all of 'big ticket' items (TVs, laptops etc) on a competitors site for the same price or less, with fast shipping and extended warranty.

2) For random low value stuff eBay is often cheaper usually and doesn't have any shipping limits.

3) Amazon is absolutely horrible to browse with the amount of junk and fakes now, the signal to noise is way too low to try and compare products in a category.

The only thing I find them consistently good for and buy from ironically is books, what they started with.

Prime Now in London would be good but the UI is atrocious. It is basically unusable, there are so many glaring errors and features missing I don't know where to start. Different stores have different 'baskets', but it shows you products from all stores. So you end up with £12 in your amazon basket and £28 in your morrisons basket which means you can't order either as there is a £40 minimum order per 'store'. If they cancel your order for whatever reason (maybe one item was out of stock) you have to add everything by hand one by one, there's no readd to cart button. It's totally crazy for an ecommerce company to be SO BAD at UI.
I wonder if this sort of method will be challenged and end up in the Supreme Court.
From another comment below:

In the US, fixed rates are for a 30 year term.
Countries like Canada and Australia have 10 year terms as a max, with most people electing for something shorter as the rate goes down.
Mostly because of what dpatrick86 said.

They don't have any trouble sleeping nor being awake when they need to. Also, they are only 3 and almost 1, so they just sleep when they want.

Also, my wife doesn't like the yellow lights, so mostly I can only "shut down" the house after she goes to bed or at least retires to the room for the night.

As the kids get older I'll probably start teaching them about good sleep hygiene if they seem to be tired all the time.
We have been complaining about hostility on SO for years.

It's debatable whether women and minorities actually do receive more hostility on SO, they're more likely to speak up, or SO's management is simply more responsive to their complaints.
Jeff Bezos (or any retailer) could ship you everything as fast as humanly possible, but then he'd have to include the cost of doing that in the price.

Instead, you get to pay for the type of shipping you want, or pay for expedited shipping up front.
Is the name a nod to Arcosanti[0]? I grew up about 10 minutes from there.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcosanti
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This is almost exactly my background as well. I have massive respect for tradespeople and family members in that space. That being said these type of articles leave a lot to be desired in terms of expressing the whole picture and why lots of blue collar families push for thier children not to go into their trade/field. Imho
> Automatic differentiation in Swift is a compiler IR transformation implemented with static analysis.

Super cool to see this implemented at the language level like this.
It is really puzzling to me. I honestly don’t understand the continued growth of Amazon retail.

For most of the stuff I buy, Amazon prices are at par or worse than retail, plus you need to be aware of counterfeit goods.

As my son has gotten older I go to the mall more to see movies and actually find shopping there pretty good. Discounters like walmart and Target have upped their game as well in recent years. Looking at my Amazon credit card, my spend has dropped about 30% a year without any conscious effort on my part. I guess I am a weirdo. :)
Half as good is probably a tenth the utility.
To be fair I've seen that gopher plastered on many an Apple macbook (along side a wildebeast, an octopus or even a penguin :P).
> Flask has a stigma for not being that good when building larger apps

Not sure how to quantify that "large" but I've worked on some api backend services written in Flask with a quarter million lines of python code and not feeling "outgrowing" Flask. Granted, it took some good design and effort to make all piece s work together. These days, horizontally scale apps is the way to go.
Agree. There's still free shipping on larger orders, and if you need something cheap and can't wait to aggregate purchases you can always just pay extra to expedite. If you figure five bucks to expedite, this would cover 20 individual purchases.

Of course, there's the media content to consider, but at this point I've found myself scrolling through their content for several minutes before finding something I can bear to watch. It's more common for me to give up than to find something I'm excited about.
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Guys, don't downvote him. Many parts of the world do it like that- your 30yr mortgage is really a series of 5yr balloon amortized for a 30 year period. They don't have the option of a true 30yr fixed.
Yeah, if anything it's a nod to Plan 9's Glenda the bunny -- they're by the same artist, even!
I just cancelled my Prime membership that was $99 a year. I got a lot of use out of it, and from a customer perspective, Amazon is really great-easy returns, quick shipping, good customer service.

Reasons:
* The increase in "fake" reviews, or even bad reviews (seriously, 1 word responses like "great") turned me off. Was I getting something good? or something that was boosted?

* The price of convenience was too high and it made my spending habits worse. Being able to quickly jump on an impulse and buy something was something at times I didn't control.

* The other services aren't as good as their competitors. The video library isn't great and I have cable already anyway. Amazon Music isn't great.

* The value isn't as good anymore. Their prices aren't cheaper than their competitors (e.g. Walmart). I can get free shipping anywhere now. The speed isn't as valuable as it once was to me. Certainly not at a price increase. What value has Prime added to me to justify the price increase?
that invites a debate about the premise. i shouldn't need to justify my constraints. i should be able to pose a problem and STATE the constraints. if you don't believe that my constraints are real then you can feel free to not answer my question but the SO regulars always feel the need to interact even when they have nothing to add.
Been using that for many years! Any time I have to be up at a certain time (and use an alarm) I use that to make sure I'm getting to bed at the right time.
17.04 still had unity.
Also, comments are prohibited for new users. I ran into this, and wanted to comment on answers I found (noting changes required for new versions of the language), etc., but couldn't. It basically caused me to not help other people for quite awhile until I could finally comment on other posts.
Artificial Intelligence to automate Tinder?
And the reason is ... ?

What's wrong with comments just being grayed out, collapsed and moved to the bottom if they are downvoted for being (too) stupid / trolling / fascist etc?

Moderators could just have more voting power.
I can't imagine it WON'T be challenged.
I had this when I applied as a grad. I wasn’t clear what they were looking for so I asked if they were looking for algorithms and language agnostic programming ability, or whether they were looking for Java and Java standard library knowledge. They wanted the latter, just Java. I didn’t continue my application.
If people complain about the price but still pay then your price is just about right.
Yes, that's partly true (although recipients don't appear to lose the benefit if they become employed), but what they're studying is a specific question, which is how giving unemployed people an unconditional stipend affects their future employment. They're not trying to study broader aspects of UBI, and I'd argue that if they wanted to do so, making the experiment much longer term would be more important than applying it to more people.
I guess the irony is that most of the interview tactics now focus simply on comparing candidate A to candidate B, in contrast to learning about candidate A or learning about candidate B and evaluating their suitability based on their skills and experience.

If you ask both candidates a question like "Johnny climbed up to the top of the hill, where was Johnny when he stopped climbing?" and then get a blank stare from both candidates then you are going to conclude that you can't find any 'qualified' candidates because they can't answer a dead-simple question.

The vetting of candidates used to be contributions to software product releases and publications (in addition to degrees and GPA). A motivated hiring manager could also search mail archives of popular open-source projects.
There should be a Chrome extension that does that.

Oh wait....
This is nice to hear. Weebly was how I built my first website, inspiring me to learn how to code.
This is just a hunch from me, but I think it has to do with the fact that people are in for a year usually. When the next year comes, you usually don't even remember how much you paid last time. It feels similar to how cable companies increase base prices after "deals" expire.
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It's GNOME, so nope, no setting for that.
"In much of the world, the concept of basic income retains appeal as a potential way to more justly spread the bounty of global capitalism while cushioning workers against the threat of robots and artificial intelligence taking their jobs." So, this is a funny way to acknowledge that global capitalism is really that good. Not only can it provide "bounty," but other, non-capitalist systems may be propped up by its success. It seems ironic that "justly spread" and "global capitalism" are in the same sentence, and not being contrasted.
I wasn't sure which to say. Marissa was CEO at the time of the breach, and Tim Armstrong is CEO now.

She testified and took a lot of the blame, whereas the fine happened under Tim Armstrong. I figured I'd go with the latter since that's when the fine came down, but I think both deserve credit (good or bad).
I love julia, but it already has a TF library that does a lot of very nice things (like not having to specify a computational graph separately from the execution) and there are other really interesting machine learning libraries (like knet).

Swift is a good choice because there are some reasonably good mobile targets, which Julia does not have. If you're deploying a ML model, you should use swift. If you're developing one, you should use julia.
I've been looking for a good reason to ditch Amazon and a 20% hike in their service price is as good a reason as any. With a few exceptions (like diapers), I rarely need something immediately. The courier companies they've been using can't seem to stop stomping across my lawn and through my planters, no matter how many times I scream at them or complain to Amazon. Prime Video has only a couple things worth watching and I already have a Netflix account. I just set the reminder to let me know three days before renewal, so I can cancel.
The brand guidebook is pretty well designed and easy to understand: https://golang.org/s/brandbook

The mascot didn't go away. Too many people in the comments seems to be upset about it...
Your reasoning holds water. How does it play out in the real world? Do “free” checkups result in more frequent well visits?

Goods and services are allocated by price or by time. Take out the price component and assume that people will go to doctor more often, obtaining an appointment will take longer. How do time and hassle required to see a doctor disincentivize well visits?
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If you are a young person who doesn't come from wealth, it is a good idea to get a skilled trade certificate right out of high school. In many cases you can do it in a year, and have a good job right away.

You can do that job to pay (at least partially) your way through university, and if your preferred career is interrupted by economic conditions or some weird life event, you always have something solid to fall back on.
Hmm, combined with Amazon's increasing tendency to just not want to ship Prime stuff to Hawaii, it might be time to get out.
It’s the warehouse club model. Prime is their margin. The profit on the products likely doesn’t even cover their overhead.
Anyone knows if movies bought on Amazon streaming video require a subscription to be watched, eg on Roku and similar apps? I’m thinking of deleting Prime and wonder what will happen to movies I bought on Amazon platform
It's arguably "right" at a macro, species POV and ruthless at a micro POV.

Logically speaking, if we refused to progressively improve how we perform tasks, we'd be cave men.

Improvement (and automation is of course a part of this) happens naturally by virtue of competitive market dynamics. In this environment, it's arguably morally irresponsible for a company to not rely on automation, because it's facing a trade-off between laying off some fraction of its labor pool now or going out of business altogether later. Therefore, the correct decision is always to improve towards greater competitive efficiency, not just for the benefit of shareholders but less obviously also for employees, in the aggregate. Competitive efficiency is also good for society.

Governments are supposed to protect people from this problem, in my opinion. I think the behavior of the US government (and most others I imagine), in allocating the vast majority of taxpayer dollars to military spending and skyrocketing medical costs due to poor regulation, instead of education, infrastructure, social safety, and retraining, is what's truly morally irresponsible. There's a whole rabbit hole of thinking down that way as well (e.g. corporate lobbying is obviously a huge part of the problem and thus in some ways we come full circle).

Oh and wrt UBI and the looming AI/robotics crisis, yea we're screwed.
No, that's the job of whoever is making the hiring decision. The interviewer is providing signal for that person / people.
In order to have any privileges whatsoever on SO, you need some rep points. You're supposed to get points by writing good questions and answers, but that's hard - and gets harder every day, as the good questions have mostly been asked already. One of the easiest ways to get rep points is to propose edits that later get accepted. "Cleaning up the site" is thus encouraged. That's probably how your "Thanks" got removed.
Judging by recent casual reads on infrastructure costs, probably very lucrative information in the correct markets too.
>That's all fractional reserve banking is, and nothing about Blockchain prevents it.

Implicit in my comment was the idea that it would be a bad idea to start a fractional reserve bank which used a currency of account that wasn't available in infinite supply from a nearby government.

Also, I merely stated a way in which Bitcoin could be used as a sound bank, not that all possible banks which use Bitcoin are sound.
Time doesn't necessarily guarantee improvement, especially when a company is growing and not necessarily well-managed
> tell me what you are really trying to accomplish and i'll answer that question

That IS a valid question. The site would be nearly useless without that. Of course there are reasons why you may not want to do the obvious thing Y but have to do X to solve a particular problem, but for a nuanced and specific question that's really the most important thing in the question. If it's not there, the answerer will (rightly) assume you are trying to bang in a nail with a saw - no matter how nuanced the question is otherwise.

That is: to be a good question, you have to be very specific about what problem you are trying to solve, what solutions you can't use, and why it is that you have to go with a specific solution.

The site isn't a question and answer site, it's a problem and solution site. People don't go to stack overflow to find an answer to a question, but rather to solve the problem they have at hand. So to make your question as good as possible for those people it really needs to have a problem context, including rejected solutions. If those rejected solutions aren't in the question - they will come in the answers. That's good.
No, not at all. Once you have earned enough reputation to have the right to edit a question without moderation, you don't gain any reputation from doing so. It's only given to editors under that threshold.
True, but cable companies/ISPs generally have a monopoly. I guess Amazon kind of fits that bill, too.
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I usually use https://www.fakespot.com/ to double check. I think a lot of sellers buy fake reviews without knowing about this service.
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I am always amazed by the sheer brainpower at the Manhattan Project. Has that level of talent ever been assembled before or since?
Netflix costs roughly $130 per year.

Apple Music costs $120 per year.

Shipping costs $5-$7 per package.

They are offering less value, but also a lower annual cost.
I should note that on several sites this isn't particularly true - for example, on Academia.SE it's pretty easy to know/guess and the questions are often about these marginalized groups.

...and when they make Hot Network Questions, the influx of people from Stack Overflow is highly correlated with an immediate drop in the quality of answers and essentially the ruination of the question, to the point that several high rep users, myself included, have asked if we could opt out of HNQ as a concept.
Unfortunately his comment is what passes as "sound analysis" on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for the moment. In a few decades statements like that will be cringe-worthy.
This is nice to hear. Weebly was how I built my first website, inspiring me to learn how to code. I first used Weebly to make a website for my "lawn mowing business" almost 10 years ago. I remember trying to edit CSS rules in terrible ways and enjoying it anyway on an old Dell laptop with 512 mb of RAM.
Amazon ...

... ‘Earth’s most customer-centric company’

... 'There are two kinds of retailers: those folks who work to figure how to charge more, and companies that work to figure how to charge less, and we are going to be the second.'

Amazon used to be this way, but it seems like they are drifting quite a bit!
Or her/them.
The idea of removing noise came from Jeff Atwood. He really took it to an extreme, and I think the site is worse for it.
Is this about landlords getting state money for no work?
I guess bonds, if inflation expectations are constant, as they will drop if expectations rise as you say. Avoiding bonds would be a mechanism to avoid rising expectations.

So I think this is technically correct, if things are static, but does not protect against rising rates, which I guess it my question.