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If I want to make a 2 hour task take an entire work day, I will do that whether I'm in the office or not. Sometimes devs need to coast a little. The notion that they will just continue to vigorously attach a backlog of monkey work is silly.

It's ok to treat adults with respect and empathy. Knowledge workers need more latitude to manage their pace.
Yup. No need for a gym membership. I can do a lot with a pull-up bar. Bodyweight squats, one leg or two legs. Pushups, planks, bridges.

Dribbling a basketball.

Kettlebells.

The list goes on.
>> See: pesticides and bees, fossil fuels and climate change, food packaging plastics and cancer, pain treatment meds and addiction.

Also, Asbestos, DDT, Thalidomide, etc.

I find that in discussions like this people often automatically adopt a defensive stance For Science, Technology and Progress, but they're missing the point that it is not science (i.e. scientists, or the scientific method) that is responsible for disasters like that- it's corporations. And they care not one jot about science, technology or progress, let alone feeding the poor or curing the ailing, or anything humantiarian and compassionate like that. It's the industry that destroys the environment and causes public health disasters, then tries its best to keep it all under wraps while people die.

Bottom line- defending big financial interests is not defending science. It's just defending someone else's money.
I am curious who has done more than Google in the last year?

Thanks in advance!
Just run it from the docker.
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> I wonder why they argue that way, when it seems obvious that you need some common ground to start reasoning at all.

The compulsion to defend the castle arises despite the foundation of the castle being built on sand.

Or:

It sure would be nice if Truth was also convenient.
No, I was astounding that something so wrong was being peddled.
Such introspection for me began at the end of my college days – Books and essays by Herman Hess, Camus, and Kafka. Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann was a high point. Its interesting that its these books that prepared me for the Bible, to start understanding it an entirely new way. But dont miss reading Steinbeck :-)
Come on, really? "Knowing the very basics of binary numbers" isn't some obscure super-technical skill when it comes to programming, it's fairly fundamental. If they don't know that, then how can they possibly know how to use bit-masks, for instance?

Like, I get it when people say "most of the stuff you learn getting a CS degree has very limited usefulness day to day". Sure, you're not going to be implementing red-black trees or skip lists in your day-to-day, but you can't possibly claim that having a basic idea of how the bitwise operators work (or the details on how numbers are represented in binary) is in the same category.
> cars during crash tests

The IIHS at least buys its cars from dealers like any consumer would, rather than getting them direct from manufacturers, to prevent them from sending specially modified cars for testing.
>since you can just inject keystrokes and thus trivially take over the system...

From javascript in a browser? That would indeed be a serious issue. How would this work exactly?
I work in telecoms.

The billable minutes thing is absolutely true. You might not directly pay for them as a customer, but carriers pay each other for inbound calls, so whatever carrier that is originating the robocalls is paying the next carrier in the chain, and that one pays the next, and so on until it finally reaches your phone. We’re not talking much on a single call (the prices are often around 0,01$ or even less) but when you take all the robocalls originated in a single day that adds up to quite a bit.
So if they finished a day's work in ten minutes, why was it eight months delayed?
There is not one solution but I can tell what works for me (and is based on scientific evidence) is mindfulness, exercise, and an anti depressant (Prozac). YMMV.
Nicer `match` bindings was easily my favourite feature of this announcement. I can't recall the number of times I've been trying to show some rust code to someone and then pattern matching comes in and I get a cold drip of sweat expecting their reaction/questions as to why do we need to be so verbose. Happy day for me as well indeed!
Well, you need to use modulus if you want to be 100% portable.
I really really hope this covers the infamous and elusive "Rachel from cardholder services"
In iPhone enable do not disturb 24/7 and only allow calls from contact list. Only bad/good thing is that all notifications get disabled too.
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Yeah, on the website, it shows a child carrying this widget in her pants' pocket, and I can immediately picture it falling out of the pocket unnoticed. A wrist band would probably be ideal.
good comment

the typically interview gotten through a college job fair, and a coding interview, prices human labor as a commodity

sometimes commodities sell for high prices, but in general, you'll do better if you don't compete as a commodity

this is a method for competing along a different axis
It's a little strange for me to see this here, in that I live in a world of instrument makers and luthiers, being a folk musician in the UK, and therefore interesting luthiers are pretty much my normal exposure to instrument makers. I even go to what is technically a festival of luthiers in France, which is fun!

Instrument making is very interesting, in that automation and export of production to China isn't really hurting the artisan makers. Obviously no-one can hand-make a guitar in the west for £150 and turn a profit, but the fact those instruments exist allows more people to enter the market, and eventually some of them will yearn for something unique, tailored to them, and probably expensive :D

The guitar is easy to take up, and very affordable, which means there's so many musicians there to appeal to as a luthier. The instruments I play (diatonic accordion/melodeon and concertina) are unfortunately immensely expensive by comparison, but even still the market is very viable for small makers to get going and selling their own inventions. I recently bought one made by a guy I know who's here in Wales, which is very cool :)

Being able to build individual one-off instruments is something the big factories cannot do, and I know a lot of makers who are all doing decent business in that niche. They might never be rich, but the ones I know love what they do and take great satisfaction from it.
None of what you said is true.

It's impossible to run a website that does anything significant (such as show ads, use UX to convert visitors, or even log in) without cookies.

The regulators don't even understand this, and nowhere has anyone gone on record saying this ignorant and misguided law was secretly intended to push an industry to "self-regulate" (regulate what, one wonders?)

GDPR being a response to anything having to do with cookies is only your interpretation, and a fairly absurd one at that.

Lastly, no one said you have to like web devs, but HN requires you to be civil, so I suggest you save the hatorade for Reddit.
I've worked fully remote before and I loved it. I got tons of work done, had time and energy for doing stuff after work, and generally flourished.

I'm in an office for a few days a week now with a new company, and I genuinely struggle to get work done on those days. I'm interrupted frequently, office mates love having very loud conversations by my desk, and I can't even fix healthy food on demand and instead drag in a lunch box like a child.

But, and here is the important bit, that's my experience. I have coworkers for whom the inverse is true, who would hate being remote at all, and see the office as the only space they can be productive in.

Just like shoes come in different sizes, so too do office working styles. My overwhelming complaint is that I have to fight tooth and nail to work from home, and I usually get the complaint "Well I don't like working from home, so you shouldn't do it either".

It's like I'm trying to justify being left handed. It's ridiculous. What works for me works for me, and I have direct stats that prove that on every basis (benefit of being a dev, work can be measured).
For small and moderate memory requirements, C pretty much supports RAII via variable-length arrays.

You just replace this:

void f(int n)
{
float *x = malloc(n * sizeof*x);
// ...
free(x);
}

with this:

void f(int n)
{
float x[n];
// ...
}

edit: and you can exit your function anywhere without leaking.
To scare you further, multiple brands and models of “SmartTVs” have the ability to fingerprint what is displayed on the screen and report back to a cloud service. Said services are also, not surprisingly, poorly secured.
Man the 80s really were horrible, weren't they? I did the same, except I was afforded a Nintendo and learned how to code at 9 using BASIC books from the school library. When the 90s came around, my parents bought a PC at great expense to encourage me.
An acquintance of mine got his FB group going thanks to real life meetups. The online community was jump-started by the participants and grew organically from there to the point where 95% of members don't even know there used to be a meetup.
Some of the highlights from last year:

- Applied for a specific payment provider which required some additional checks and setup. Was confirmed that everything was up and running and approved. All good in sandbox but nothing was working on production. After back and forth emailing and twitter (and a lot of besides the question/issue replies) turns out they actually did had a production setup issue for this provider and it would take another 72 hours after we were "confirmed for production usage" to actually start taking payments using that provider

- Discovered inconsistencies in documentation and expected API response results about a year ago. A lot of back and forth emailing and twitter again. Generic reply about test cards and link to docs. After insisting to have another look it was confirmed there was an issue in the sandbox

I've moved all our EU payments away from Stripe and to Mollie which seems to have a better offering for European payment schemes.

Radar is a big plus for fraud prevention (and something Stripe does very well!) but isn't that mostly based on the Israeli startup they acquired?
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This list [1] should cover almost all the essential application for a developer.

[1]https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/my-mac-os
Harry Mairson is a Functional [0] Luthier.

[0] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.640....
"The rest of your points are absolute bull shit that can all be done remotely"

I disagree mentoring can be as effective when done remotely. The channel width of face-to-face communication is higher than that of any other method.

Furthermore, there are a lot of things that are communicated from senior to junior accidentally, for example, some simple efficient pattern of using the IDE, that would not get communicated in a remote setting. The skill transfer can happen of course any which way, from junior to senior, whatever - but serendipitous pairing is often the initial requirement for this skill transfer to happen.
They aren't all self help. Some just shook my world view so much that I couldn't help but introspect, reviewing everything I believe from a new angle. I find the experience I had with each fairly intimate. I hope others may have the same experience with any book, but think that these may do it.

1. This Is What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami

Murakami talking about his decision to become an author and also his lifelong hobby of running.

2. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls - David Sedaris

Made me laugh for the first time in awhile.

3. The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus

Absurdity.
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As a C novice, this makes me wonder - wouldn't templates/macros be able to serve a similar purpose to goto statements if the goal is to avoid nested calls but still share code?

EDIT: Or, for that matter, trusting the compiler to inline small-enough function calls?
- Gödel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter

- Principles, Ray Dalio

- L'Etranger, Albert Camus

- Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire

- The Dao of Capital, Mark Spitznagel

- Howl, Allen Ginsberg

- On the Road, Jack Kerouac

I could go on and on...
> He's dedicated his life in trying to explain why the atrocities of the 20th century happened

Looking at what he published it seems he dedicated most of his life to researching the effects of alcoholism.

Also would you mind expanding on how he uses science to give new meaning to the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of Western society?
I'm curious why chroot is used instead of mount namespace and pivot_root(2). This would let them get away without CAP_SYS_CHROOT, while also providing stronger filesystem isolation.
I am not trying to start a argument but it is a bit sad that these things are called "hacks", in the article, and by others.

Some would call it math.

But I guess that shows you the state of our art.
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Seems like a wash to me. It wouldn't invalidate itself any more than it would invalidate other alternatives to it.
Effective Java is the best book I've read on the subject.
I'd prefer an open source software solution but, either way, they'd start leaving voicemails, which is still annoying to manage. However, a lot of them already leave a 3 second blank voicemail, so that would at least eliminate the ignore/reject call step and the rude interruption.
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You mentioning "log in" in this context makes it pretty clear you're also fairly ignorant about the specific topic. Log ins, shopping baskets, ... do not require a cookie notice.
Lol. A market for vulnerabilities? Pretty sure these exist already. ;)
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I think the big dirty secret is that even in the office, there is a need for down time. The problem is that my options are limited, so I sit at my desk and look at the same stupid web sites in a clandestine manner. Or I get up and go for a walk, and try to get some fresh air. But my office building sits on an interstate and there are no walking paths or benches in sight.

At home, my breathers are more energizing, which is the point.

I can't believe how ridiculous it is that managers feign surprise when they are told that a task estimated at 4 hours will take a calendar day to complete. That is the nature of the work.
Wikipedia has a very small article devoted to him. Shows the importance of advertising oneself.
There are legitimate reasons for spoofing to work given how fucked up the PSTN is.

Mobile roaming is one for example - when you roam on another carrier and place a call, that carrier directly originates the call and “spoofs” your caller ID to make it look like the call originated from you.

Some companies may use different carriers for either load balancing or least-cost routing and so both of these carriers are required to “spoof” the company’s caller ID.

This can definitely be fixed with a CA system and “delegation” where the main carrier who owns the number can issue certificates for any other carrier you’d like to use to temporarily allow them to use a particular caller ID, and each call request should be signed with that certificate and the signature should be verified by call intermediate carriers down the chain, and the call dropped if the signature is missing or invalid.
In some cases, you'll have a specific client that wants something specific and you'll just have to make your best guess. But, at a lot of companies, there's no specific client who needs feature x by day y. Estimating in those companies is almost always a waste of time, a nonsense exercise designed to make managers feel like they're in control of the situation.

I come to work at the same time every day for the same amount of time every day and I work on our product that whole time. What's going to get done is going to get done. If a situation requires more, then we'll work late. (And it's almost always obvious when something is important enough to require this.) The process of guessing how long each task is going to take is a complete waste of our time. Of course, we do it. And management thinks it's super important, because they spend their days making spreadsheets and Jira filters based on those guesses. But, the reality is that it simply doesn't matter one way or the other.

We make a bunch of guesses, then we do the work we were going to do anyway and it takes as long as it was always going to take, and then at the end we have another pointless meeting, called the "retrospective," where we talk about how good or bad our guesses were.

It's like a Tennessee Valley Authority make-work program for under-challenged product managers.
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This logic doesn't even hold the basic scrutiny.

0. The group productivity argument is completely unsubstantiated.

1. Trust in employees is fundamental, why even go there.

2. There are remote-first companies with great culture.

3. Ad-hoc training works great over Hangouts, I do it all the time.

4. Most meetings are not urgent. For sysops consider having a team on-call. Again it works great over Hangouts.

Etc...
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A conflict of visions, Sapiens, Crime and Punishment and http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenits.... I've always been introspective but also was significantly less open minded than I imagined myself to be. These books opened me up to experience introspection in better ways. I think Solzhenitsyn's address is the one that really made a huge difference. My Russian boss pointed me to it :).
In hindsight, displeased for sure.
Since nobody's recommended The Prophet yet, I'll give it a mention. In my circles, and maybe yours, it's become a bit of a bad joke, the kind of thing that gets mined for quotes to read at a wedding. But while it's quite brief, it covers all the big themes in life, and whether you agree with it or not it can give you a structure for thinking about them.
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In your view, is there a difference between micromanaging authorian culture compared to a consensus-driven culture where the employees all trust each other?

I've seen several different companies from the insidr, and each one has had vastly different cultures. Usually it is an implementation of the CEO/upper management's views of what "corporate culture" is. There's still usually a facade, but that facade is not necessarily disingenuous.
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They were used in the Tyne pedestrian tunnel until pretty recently.

They’re actually still there but the tunnel is closed for refurbishment, part of which is the replacement of the escalators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyne_Tunnel#Tyne_cyclist_and_p...
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After AD auth and SSO.
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I would like to see a timer on the desk during meetings, not showing the elapsed time, but the total wage bill the meeting is costing. I think that should concentrate minds a little
The inter exchange fees are a way to divvy up the revenue collected at the call originator. At the end of the day, the total amount of revenues once all those payments are netted out is going to be limited by how much the robocaller companies are paying for phone service. Is there any evidence that is a lot of money that creates incentives for corruption, as OP implies?
Sounds like an "oh shit" "self-destruct" button just to cover their asses while they figure it out.
I don't understand your comment. The link you pasted explicitly mentions the union example as a "compliant solution".

That said, memcpy and a compiler that understand the memcpy intrinsic is probably safer; that said I have a vague memory of hitting an embedded compiler where memcpy wasn't an intrinsic
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IMO behaving like a normal human isn't "tricking people". Voice assistants need to behave like a human to enable natural interaction, and the fact that the AI caller isn't human is irrelevant information in most contexts.

It'd be like if I called a business and used a voice changer during the call to make me sound like I'm a different gender than I am. Would that be fraud? No, because my gender is irrelevant information in the context of that call.

Now maybe it might be a good idea to program the AI to be upfront about its nature just as a matter of courtesy, but I see no reason why it _not_ doing would be so harmful that it needs to be made illegal.
How was the handshake? Surely you can't base your business decisions on such metrics?
But still that means he wants to believe in something that does not exist. The fact that we depend on God and religion is what actually takes our sight out of what is right in front of us which is family, kids, neighbors, little things, etc. Why do we need to attribute these things to God? Can’t we all be nice to each other without God?
Yes, this happened to me a few years back. I was waiting on an important phone call, so I had to answer. Turns out some guy was swearing up and down that I called him the day before.
> I understand why this would worry some managers, but I don’t believe you can apply factory line thinking or strategies to brain-workers because it doesn’t suit them, especially not if you want them to cooperate in actual teams and not just be a bunch of grouped individuals competing not to be measured as the bottom 15%.

I agree and I hope you're not suggesting that I'm doing that.

My problem is that "I trust my gut" doesn't work very well either as a strategy fot me because I just don't have that body of experience to draw from.

So I'm a bit lost.
Welcome to the club! The same happened to me 3 years ago. At that time I also started reading "Man's search for meaning".

The following book had the biggest impact on my world view:

The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation, by Thich Nhat Hanh

I personally don't believe in any religious things, and I still don't. But now I look at the world differently.

Buddhism is know for reincarnation, which looks a bit silly to me. But as this book points out, it is not reincarnation, but rebirth in (Zen) Buddhism. Both are completely different. There is nothing silly about rebirth, and it's actually more accurate that how we, as individualistic westerners, view the world.

As someone who loves science, after reading this book, I have a more realistic view on the world than I had before, and than most of my rational friends right now.

The (Zen) Buddhism in this book is not so much a religion with believes, but more a philosophy on how to look at life and the world.
Blender would work very well for this.
Google is a strong contender in the cloud war, thanks to their roots
The Equifax breach leaked phone numbers along with all of the other identifying information hence more spam calls from anyone (everyone) affected.