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I think the problem is a lack of dogfooding in the industry. There is plenty of SaaS providers that simply sell the software to their users but don't use it themselves.

The ideal SaaS is one that sells software they use themselves.

I would think for a PoS it would be similar. Selling a good PoS might require running a few restaurants where you deploy and test it. That way you aren't running risk of not knowing the pain points because the users are far away and don't want to bother you with it. It should also lead to some pragmatism instead of overthinking.
Wow, never realized the pointer cast version is undefined behaviour in C. Is C++ equivalent via reinterpret_cast undefined behaviour too?

Back in my C++ days, I would much prefer pointer-cast to union-struct, because the latter was subject to alignment/padding issues you mention, while for the former, I know of no desktop architecture that could mess up a int* -> float* cast.

I'm also doubly surprised because being able to do that stuff is what I'd consider the selling point of C/C++ over higher-level languages.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is sitting on $70B cash just because he can't find anything worth investing it in. Major corporations have astronomical cash hoards awaiting tax holidays but also not finding any productive use in their waiting rooms across Europe.
I always preferred Meccano! (similar to Erector in the US)
> Personally I'd prefer living at a shared-workspace or company campus as long as work and living facilities are clearly separate.

May I ask why? I'd prefer living close to my family and friends, many of which may not work for the same company as I work for. I'm trying to see what your motivating factors are because I, for one, could not disagree more.
I am excited for this phone, for one reason: that I may some day be able to VNC to it from my desktop and use it that way .. or, even better, set it up as a target for Synergy, and simple integrate it into my existing computer fleet as a first class citizen.
Fair point, it does put some management on to the FDA, but that seems reasonable.. and cost seem small.

Still the FDA can't test all shops, and there is a risk they just test the same shipment. Trusting samples from companies is easy, and fake those samples is a very deliberate crime. It's easy to fake currency, that doesn't mean people do it.
I made the transition a few years ago, and wished this article had been written back then - it contains 90% of what I needed to know. Hopefully it will help you too, even though it’s not a formal course.

https://github.com/webflow/leadership/blob/master/tech_lead....
In my opinion, seeing that nobody actually understands the fundamentals of why the techniques used in ML/AI seem to work, it matters less that a researcher is not armed in the practice of complex mathematics.

I suppose there is a use for precisely describing things that we do not actually understand, but I don't think it is a pre-requisite, at this early infant stage in ML/AI.
I bet you they also detect dihydrogen monoxide at near lethal dose levels in food samples, due to farmers spraying it on the crops. Some of that stuff even makes it into the rivers and flows into the ocean and can be detected in the fish in the sea.
What if Bezos said "I think fulfillment should be the priority" instead of saying work-life balance is a "debilitating phase". That would got his point in a concise and clear manner.

But unfortunately in today's world people try to re-define a known word and then go into a lengthy explanation. My first reaction to reading Bezo's explanation was to compare him to Ivanka trying to redefine the word "complicit":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw0xln927lc
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> So what is a legitimate use case for MERGE where not knowing if a record is new or existing is not possible prior to the transaction?

I think he concentrates on "possible" where the interesting use case is "convenient". The are many cases where you want to go from at-least-once execution of idempotent tasks to a consistent view of data. In those cases it's irrelevant if the data existed before or not - you're likely doing an upsert with exactly the same data under exactly the same key and care only the resulting log of events.
I wonder, since when?

My Firefox doesn't show such option under right-click menu. But even if it's common in other browsers now, it wasn't when I needed it first, so I found an alternative and put the problem out of my mind. Thanks for pointing out that there is a solution in (some) browsers, though. Maybe it's time to abandon the alternative habits.
I'm confused. (I literally mean it, I'm not advocating anything). If the urchins were dying off, I can understand why that would devastate the urchin divers, but why would a boom in urchins put them out of business? Why aren't the urchin divers doing the vacuuming and making more money than ever from a bumper crop of urchins?
Only for outside use. They are still legal for use in greenhouses. I'm not disagreeing that this means they acknowledge the potential harm for bees, but it's not a "total ban".
I know Huawei did exactly this when their phone network equipment was being tested for approval and adoption by mobile phone networks.
Yes! This sucks... You can get text or email notifications.

Like I said, I hate these systems with passion, but as much as I hate to admit it they are more secure than paper ever was. Probably also more convenient, as things moving fast compared to snailmail.
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It reads like an episode of the Navy Lark [1]. Except that in this case people died.

Never thought I'd see reality approach fiction, when a navy is involved. Everybody down!

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Navy_Lark
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Like others have commented below GMOs (well, GMO crops specifically) were not the main driver of the Green Revolution. So the question remains- what are the harms that can come about by not using GMOs?

My understanding is that, at this point in time, the harms are primarily financial. For instance, when the EU imposed a moratorium on GMO crops, the reaction was primarily for countries that, until then, sold GMO crops to EU countries, to complain to the WTO about trade agreement violations- in other words, their financial interests were damaged.

As to issues of food security and feeding the people of developed nations, as I understand it, there is an ongoing debate on whether GMO crops are really needed to achieve this, or whether better management of existing agricultural resources, or better distribution of current food production, can do the job. In other words- GMOs may be beneficial, so not necessary, therefore not using them would not lead to harm.
Climate change is mostly no binary event. There is the risk of runaway effects, and possible extinction (though unlikely) but luckily we haven't hit those yet.

The political 2 degree goal is damage control. Climate models are complex and impacts harder to predict the more you divert from the current situation.

At 2 degrees the costs to society (social costs of carbon) far outweigh the mitigation costs.
To hit the 2 degree target we have to act swiftly "we don't have decades to fix this" we are not (yet) at a "point of no return"

As green house gases are currently an externality, there will be no capital without activism.

I am too young to look back decades, but my understanding was that the "we don't have decades to fix this" guys in the 80s and 90s were more about running out of oil(and that turned out to be no problem as rising prices make more expensive extraction feasible) and that climate change as a concern only really started in the 90s (even though known long before that). And there are already damages that could have been prevented by acting swiftly in the 90s. We could have reached e.g. a 1.5 degree target. So the "we don't have decades to fix this" rethoric is fitting as ever.
Okay, I guess my point was to say control without trust is expensive. Some level of trust in companies and institutions is necessary. And when balancing this we should consider cost.
I do care because it makes farmers dependent on Monsanto seeds + chemical packages, for they cannot compete with the ones that are using these products and go out of business otherwise. This reduces food diversity, aids big agricultural conglomerates while harming small producers and leads to creation of food deserts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
> One important take away [...] is that people love sticking to the old way of doing things, even if there's an easier, new way to do it.

I think "ease of use" is highly attribute, enormously dependent on the expectations and workflows a user has already learned.

If there is an arcane mouse gesture/shortcut/menu item/cmd command that a user knows very clearly how to use and a simple-looking button with unclear purpose, then for that user the former is probably a lot easier to use.
>If e.g. artificial sweeteners caused cancers the way many believe, you'd see people dropping dead left and right, with cancers clearly linkable to the use of sweeteners.

Wait a min. I don't remember smokers dropping dead left and right in all those times when almost everyone smoked..

Another one is the effects on lead in automobile fuels. Again people were not dropping dead. Despite the issues about it that we have since discovered...

I think these kinds of apologetic behavior is vastly more dangerous than any hindrance to "progress" that might be caused by being more cautious...

>For individuals, obsessing about those things too much puts you in more danger to your health than those things could ever cause...

Not sure. How does producing vegetables myself, or making sure the vegitables I buy are free of residue, or limiting my exposure to air pollution put in me more danger than those things could ever cause...

If you think pesticide residue cannot do much damage, take a look at Endosulfan tragedy in India.

[1] http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Thiruvananthapuram/No-en...
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Not really, this increases its applicability as this is the usual case in which people are considering working from home - as an option at a non-fully-remote company, or as an option to join a fully remote company.
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They literally just bought 75 million more shares of Apple.
Yeah, to be fair, just by being on GitHub there are issues. Ideally, it should be sat on Visual SourceSafe or something in a server on an industrial estate somewhere.
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As a contractor, you are under no obligation to be an ass in any seat, and if client says otherwise you can point them towards IRS reclassification.
How does erlang/elixir do it? I've never really had any problems.
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Link to the actual paper:
https://people.stanford.edu/nbloom/sites/default/files/wfh.p...
I wouldn't touch Apple stuff with a ten foot pole. As in, I literally have no use for it as a client platform, which let's face it, is all its used for.
That's a 'near-miss'. Something that shouldn't happen does happen, and you come closer to disaster than you were ever comfortable with. At that point, all it would take is a grouchy case worker to throw their entire family into disarray for months or years.

Two years ago, an Ontario foster family had their children taken away solely for refusing to lie about the existence of the Easter Bunny[1]. The parents were planning on celebrating the holiday with the children, but when the Children's Aid Society of Hamilton discovered the parents were unwilling to lie if asked, they had the children immediately removed from the home. The caseworkers treated learning the truth about the Easter Bunny as if it were a serious immediate danger to the safety of the children. If that sounds ridiculous, it's because it is.

The foster parents won a lawsuit over the matter in March of this year, but it's kind of too late to make things right. The lives of both the children and the parents have been permanently changed by the bad decisions by case workers.

If I was that Manitoba parent, I'd be angry and scared too. Nothing happened this time, but if she continues letting her kids play in the backyard, she's rolling the dice again. All that needs to happen is for her same neighbour to make another complaint, and to get an unreasonable caseworker. Superficially, it might even seem reasonable, "children removed from home of woman after repeated complaints of neglect" is not a headline that sounds concerning.

[1]: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/easter-bunny-edmonton...
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Taking control audition style may work if you're a consultant trying to convince a client to hire them, but you had better know their business backwards and forwards, and unless you're in a very well defined space (like their football coaching example), you probably don't.

However, if you attempt this at a standard FAANG job interview, it is emphatically not going to work. There's a set of questions you need to work through and attempting to go off script is not going to be appreciated. Pretty much the only exception is leadership roles, particularly when the brief is "we need somebody who can turn around/10x our floundering business".
PhD student here so take my opinion with a grain of salt. I personally love the fact that I can choose to work at home or at the office.

I can really concentrate at home (private room where I feel comfy) but on the other hand it is also significantly easier to distract yourself from work. Netflix is just one tab away and there's no one to look over your shoulder and whisper in your ear "Don't watch Netflix when you're working".

It also depends a lot on my mood. When I feel down and worthless because my research feels like its going nowhere I distract myself more easily. If I feel optimistic like I'm a predator hunting some prey because my research is leading somewhere fruitful I can work anywhere with great focus without the need for distraction.
> It’s entirely reasonable to expect that researchers who invented e.g. golden rice we’re thinking about the lives it’ll save.

Absolutely. I was simply responding to the above poster’s implication that we should never consider motives when someone is selling the entire world a product.

And I agree with you completely that it’s reasonable to expect there was some altruism in producing golden rice. It’s also reasonable to expect companies who have billions of dollars tied up in their patents on the world’s food supply might selectivity choose which information they share in order to make their product appear in the best light possible. In some ways it would be unreasonable to assume they would share their negative info with us, they have an incredible amount to lose if we don’t buy into their products.

And look, I’m certainly not suggesting that GMOs are evil, I am incredibly excited by some of the advancements we’re seeing. I’m just saying there is nothing wrong with considering motives when different data streams seems to be in tension with one another. Simply considering motives as one small piece in the puzzle is rational.

I believe to make informed decisions, we need as much information as possible. And understanding motivations is just more information to help us parse. Again, I’m incredibly pro-gmo, but I’m also willing to consider there may be consequences to some products and some policies - particularly when these policies are mixing intellectual property and patents on something as important as the worlds food supply.
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Would reframing the developer "technical interview" as an audition instead create better expectations for everyone?
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there's the life/work balance that is different and can stretch negatively but it has a lot of value
What you're saying is: make all mobile nodes clients to centralised servers ;)

As a result, it's much easier to maintain a single architecture than two different architectures with rapidly diminishing number of desktop nodes taking all the traffic.
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Don't they teach Haskell to students as their first language now?

Sethu had an incredibly high dropout rate among his PhD students. I've heard stories about him publicly berating them at lab meetings - calling them stupid etc. Smart guy, but I'd never want to work with him.
> slightly increased exposure to the three germ incubating kids under 5 that live here, but there's not much I can do about that

You could homeschool them.
“If companies want hackers to be productive, they should look at what they do at home. At home, hackers can arrange things themselves so they can get the most done. And when they work at home, hackers don't work in noisy, open spaces; they work in rooms with doors. They work in cosy, neighborhoody places with people around and somewhere to walk when they need to mull something over, instead of in glass boxes set in acres of parking lots. They have a sofa they can take a nap on when they feel tired, instead of sitting in a coma at their desk, pretending to work. There's no crew of people with vacuum cleaners that roars through every evening during the prime hacking hours. There are no meetings or, God forbid, corporate retreats or team-building exercises. And when you look at what they're doing on that computer, you'll find it reinforces what I said earlier about tools. They may have to use Java and Windows at work, but at home, where they can choose for themselves, you're more likely to find them using Perl and Linux.”

http://paulgraham.com/gh.html
a better link, perhaps: https://github.com/jtanza/rufus
I don't think "managing outcomes" means your tasks are strictly limited to what your manager you you could finish and then you'll go home.

In my situation, at least, there's a never ending list of tasks to accomplish.

If you finish the "must do now" tasks, it's expected that you'll let them know and pull something else off the pile; not that you'll do nothing for the rest of the sprint.
I get what you're doing and at the risk of taking the bait I want to point out that this is actually the way that a lot of WISPs that I know of operate. Build a network up to a certain number of customers that can be supported by 1-5 people and just leave it there and run it as a lifestyle business, or eventually sell it. I personally know maybe 10 or 12 people who are now doing or have done that in the past.

There are of course also businesses in this market that want to continue growing and I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
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> Yes, of course I am, as an amateur in linux it would be reckless for me reuse an existing linux installation in a different context. The only way I can safely re-use is docker.

If you're using Docker - or even know about it - you're not an amateur.

Since you're talking about your need to 'build a Linux VM for something' this also suggests you're significantly better than average on the GNU/Linux awareness scale.

But to your question -- if you're using a VM instance, make a base build, make it just right, and then snapshot it. When you need to spin up a new Linux VM for something, replicate the snapshot, do an apt-get update/upgrade (or equiv) and carry on. This is fairly common practice and saves having to remember your domain name, root password, home folders etc.

To your last point -- I rarely install Ubuntu, and can really only compare Debian vs various Microsoft installations processes for the past twenty years. GUI GNU/Linux installers were popularised by Ubuntu, and that's why that came up. You're right that totally vanilla CLI installers don't explain things well, but that's what we used to have on Windows 3.1 / 95 / 98 ... and people somehow managed to struggle on. Either average Microsoft users have become dumber (quite possible) or IT types continue to underestimate people's ability to read or work things out. Given almost everyone that installs an OS now has another device to hand to look up guides and answers, I'd suggest it's (installer complexity) even less of a distinction now.

Aside - Microsoft installers always had it much easier than most GNU/Linux installers simply because Microsoft installers (for a very, very long time) didn't give a flying if there was an existing operating system on the box. They'd just re-partition, re-format, install, and overwrite the MBR.

Pretty much every GNU/Linux installation process took great care to accommodate other OS's already in situ, and also documented the process and correct ordering required to be sociable with other OS's.
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oh - I gave you a mistaken upvote. I thought you meant Enlightenment:
https://www.enlightenment.org/
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$0.10 per non paying user is a lot of money and you don’t know what the rest of the terms were. Apple on the other hand chose the strategy you are advocating and they already lost over $400000000 and probably a ton of legal costs.
I see by the “programmers” the opposite: see Gnome KDE etc. The normal user would like to have desktop icons. The programmers make a GUI but probably never leave the terminal so they don’t care. The users would like to drag the border of the window to resize. The “programmers” again resize only their terminal windows with some arcane keyboard combination so they leave the border 1 pixel wide. See recent HN about new Ubuntu version for more of such insanity.

Disclaimer: a user if Linux who wants to use desktop and drag the window borders and scrollers. For Gnome I’ve wasted so much time to achieve that. A normal user can’t do that.
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> Enter Bloom, who helped design a test whereby 500 employees were divided into two groups--a control group (who continued working at HQ) and volunteer work-from-homers (who had to have a private room at home, at least six-month tenure with Ctrip, and decent broadband access as conditions).

Did it say volunteer? That already stains the results as control group and the test group are not similar. Maybe volunteers are already more productive than people that don't want to experiment?
How do you phrase the question? Because surely people you hired should have been able to answer it using modulus?
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Still interesting that people who volunteer for remote work are more productive on average than those who prefer office work.
This may be the case, but I expect it applies for a tiny percentage of (potential) users.

For a long time, anyone interested in dipping their toe into GNU/Linux would either use a live CD (Knoppix was huge) or they'd be encouraged by someone that would assist them.

At the risk of sounding dismissive, I'd suggest if someone couldn't summon the patience to follow a fairly straightforward keyboard/location/pick-a-host-name/yeah-use-my-whole-disk sequence of steps, then actually using a GNU/Linux operating system for more than a few days was probably not on the cards. I'm not suggesting it was ever an intentional gating process, but it probably did help to save some people from being even more frustrated.
It's important to let kids be bored and ignored from time to time, so they actually have the space to think for themselves and realize how many opportunities they have out there and how fun it is to explore them.

Of course, every kid is a different universe, but in general I feel we are missing quite a bit of that.
> Microsoft has literally tens of thousands of engineers capable of building the client for Windows if Apple will let them.

One word: Skype.