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I think when its moderated away, it often shows bias. But when its downvoted away, in subreddits which have constituency that shows proper reasoning skills, I tend to agree that its all about quality of the comment.

A controversial comment does in fact command a higher burden of proof. Thus the comment has to be of even higher quality. And when it is, I feel it survives the downvotes.

At least I've generally been able to go against the group think and survive downvotes. But generally you need a clear argument, have a real point, and not show bias.

Now, it won't always fly, but I think high quality controversial comments can.
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It's in Vancouver. And many other places.
I am guessing it was a snarky comment on the lack of capitalization, which I would not have noticed otherwise.
I think the title is referring to the ecosystem and not the technology.

• How many frameworks for Java, Python, Bash, etc did you have to learn?

• Did you switch from Redis to X because the former was deprecated N months later?

• Are OVH, Heroku, AWS updates getting in the way of your development process?

Learning a technology by itself like Node.js is not a problem, the problem is that front-end development nowadays requires so many small and fragile tools just to build a web application compared to the number of tools that you would need in another language like C# where the most recognized libraries are several times more stable and change with much less frequency. Mentioning things like database engines, cloud platforms and version control tools is out of the scope of the discussion because they are encapsulated tools, and at least the ones that you mentioned (before you updated your comment) have a very low release rate, and to my opinion are very-very stable in comparison with the JavaScript ecosystem.

> Having to learn a new library every 3-4 years (usually when starting a new job) is it really a big deal?

Yes, it is.

> In my career I also had to learn …

Not for the same project and/or development cycle, but surprise me if I that's the case.

> And according to HN, what's really hype right now is Rust, Go, FoundationDB, Kubernetes, and so on

People stick to them and that's it, I don't know any serious company changing their tech stack every N months just because they are trendy on HN. Several years later they may switch to a new tech stack because the project requirements have changed but not because the author of one of the thousand libraries that you are importing decided to carelessly modify a feature that another dozen libraries use, consequently breaking not just your code but also many others. Or, in another scenario, your package manager doesn't betray you by destroying all your file system during a careless upgrade [1].

> Learn REST and GraphQL, SVN and Git, Linux and Windows Server, Vagrant and Docker

You are missing the point entirely… We are talking about how "unstable" front-end development is, not how many tools you have to learn. If I could learn 10-20 tools for front-end development and be certain that they will not drastically change in a year or so, or at least get deprecated, then — and only then — I would not have to worry so much about available updates via the main and (unfortunately) only package manager that the JavaScript community have.

[1] https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/19883
No?

If x is 3, then (x * 2) / 2 is also equal to 3 (as per the GP) but (x & ~1 * 2) / 2 is equal to 0.

(If you meant ((x & ~1) * 2) / 2, then that is equal to 2).
> So the rest of the world should get annoyed with the opening dialog, so that the EU doesn't have to get blocked?

Nope. Surely you can think of a technical solution to this problem.
The grant is normally over 4 years, so it would all have vested. And there's only one grant in question, so no higher prices to account for.
If anyone should have known about Enron, it was McKinsey. They were all through that place, Arthur Andersen just looked at the financial reports. AA collapsed and the government went after them, but the Supreme Court vacated AA's conviction on the grounds that the instructions given to the jury were so vague the jury could have believed AA thought they were doing everything right but still voted to convict. Since the firm was destroyed, no one bothered to retry the case.

And I don't know why you say nothing substantially changed, Sarbanes-Oxley came out of that and accounting students are beat over the head with the lessons from Enron and what changed.

Plus, Arthur Andersen Consulting still exists as Accenture, but they were separate companies at that point. (Accenture was actually pretty psyched because they had nothing to do with Enron, but when AA accounting and AA Consulting broke up they had a deal where the more profitable business would send a cut of their profits to the other company. Since consulting is always more profitable, AA Consulting was looking for a way out of that deal when AA accounting imploded.)
I tried to learn calc to design an auto pilot system in a game designed in Unity using c#. I got frustrated and gave up =[
Yeah, there's a perfect storm that happens on the frontend.

(1) Users are more empowered and expected to continually change requirements all the time.
(2) The underlying technology is broken. Specifically, there is no component model that makes it easy to compose existing components. Every frontend app reinvents not just the wheel but the tools to cut the stone.
(3) There is no UI component model provided by the browser. Every webapp looks and behaves completely different from every other webapp. There are no common metaphors, common components, common fonts, common icons or even best practices. Every company writes their own UI kit and interface guidelines.
(4) Thanks to the highly intelligent fuckers at Google/Facebook/Yahoo everybody has very high expectations when it comes to Web UIs. These guys are also driving rapid innovation in the space. Unlike Windows apps -- which haven't changed much in 25 years -- Webapps seem to become dramatically different every 3-5 years.

The result is the wild west meets post-apocalyptic disaster where everything is constantly changing and the developers don't have the tools to actually manage or control this change.
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Sign-magnitude for the significand, and offset-binary for the exponent. The reason for this odd combination is probably historical.
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If they don't want me because of my age, I certainly don't want to work for them and provide my skills to them.

Also, it's a bit sad that Verizon can't afford an editor or reviewer to tell them to use "you're" correctly...

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I have graduate degrees in optimal control. Here's my two cents worth.

Since you're still learning, I'd say a StackExchange-like Q&A site or a forum might be a more appropriate venue. These typically allow you to type math and explain stuff in long-form. They also provide you a better feedback loop from peers and experts. You get to test out your ideas and integrate new ones.

I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, but I'm gonna go against the advice of most tech folks out there (and here on HN) by saying: a blog might not be the best medium at this stage of your studies.

The danger with a blog is that it stays on the Internet forever. When you're starting out on a subject, you're bound to say naive things and overestimate your own knowledge (source: been there done that).

Some of the things you say will range from the naive to the inaccurate [1]. And these will be indexed by a search engine and cached. People will stumble on your site, and if you're a good writer, your material might even get picked up and repeated. This is happening all over the data science world where every aspiring data scientist fancies having a blog, and the overall quality of data science articles in the blogosphere is abysmal at the moment. (witness the multitude of data-munging-with-Pandas and oh-look-I-just-discovered-logistic-regression articles). It's mostly just noise.

This doesn't mean I don't think there's value in writing -- on the contrary, writing helps crystallize your thoughts and forces you to grapple with gaps in your knowledge. You should definitely keep a single LaTeX file of ideas in gestation [2], without publishing them. When the time is right and when your semantic tree of the subject is more mature, you can review and release them, and chances are some of the ideas will be novel, or at the very least, thoughtful.

Many great works are created this way. Great authors don't show you how the sausage is made; they show you the polished end products. And these tend to stand out more.

TLDR; write, but don't publish until you've developed more maturity in the subject. Participate in Q&A sites/forums and test your ideas there.

[1] Unless you're careful to stay within the boundaries of established knowledge, in which case, your blog would be no different from a textbook.

[2] This is a variation of a Richard Feynman trick. Some of the most creative academics I know keep a list of their random ideas in a cache (mine's a Google Docs document named "Random Ideas"; I learned this from said academics), and mull over them (and develop them) from time to time. If one day the stars align and a missing piece of the puzzle shows up, they go back to this cache, put everything together and whip out a brilliant paper or article in no time. Everybody is impressed and thinks they're a genius, when in fact they've been thinking about the idea for a long time.
Hmm. Doesn’t seem to work.

Is it that this doesn’t work on iOS, or that it just plain doesn’t work?
No, all testing is down all the way down to 'reality'. But testing is statistically scaled to detect large errors. The threshold for 'large' shifts with how large the audited company is. i.e. a couple million dollars is a rounding error at Walmart.

Additionally, pretty much 90% of an audit flows through a limited number of client contacts. Audits are not designed to defend against a concerted effort to prevent the auditors from seeing 'reality' (i.e. un-doctored documents), due to the manpower requirements to validate information at that level.

Conceptually, it's the difference between 'I-trust-you-but-I-need-to-check-that-you-did-your-homework' and 'Trust no one, everything you see is a lie'.
I've known a couple consultants at Accenture who started their careers in audit, but I don't know how common switching is
How does one even discover the email addresses of CEOs (or board members)? It's not like they're searchable online and guessing common formats only gets you so far.
my only comment is that the opportunity to stop weaponized AI is long long long gone. the barriers to entry for modern machine learning methods are just so low and the military benefits are there. Near peer states are going to do this and we frankly cannot stop them. the train has left the station...

sidenote: my impression is the next block of the small diameter bomb has a semi-autonomous feature where it can glide over a target area without a pre-sighted target-use some computer vision-recognize a tank- adjust its trajectory to hit the tank. all without a man-in-the-loop. pretty nifty.

edit: also these jobs are literally hiring right now. you can polish up your cv and send it to a DOD lab and in a few months you will be using deep learning to kill. SICK!
However it also prevents "abort on overflow" implementations from being conforming, which look like a much better way of finding actual overflow bugs in the code.
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I gotta admit, the very fist thing I noticed was the "This content is not secure" cert warning in the URL bar.
I have no pacifist objections to Google partnering with the Pentagon, I just don't think it's very smart for what amounts to be an information platform to be opening itself too easily to accusations of bias(even though everyone would know it's there anyway).

One scenario I would plan for if I were Google is if with the emergence of webassembly that an open source browser-based mobile OS like Firefox OS might become more viable. I could definitely see some nations(I.E. Russia and China... but I could see South Korea's phone manufacturers being in favor... and many EU nations too if it were open source) being very uneasy with a US Corporation that is a pentagon contractor whose government already threatened to withhold android software to ZTE. With getting close to the Pentagon and after the ZTE threat, it will be harder to make a fuss if Russia and China were to outright ban Android.
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Nothing like an article written 6 months ago about a method with 50% accuracy. The dime in my pocket does just as well and is much simpler :)
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Avoiding bank fees is value.

Removing banking hours is value.

Providing a store of value outside of a conventional financial system has value.

Let the free market decide how much value.
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Hi HN,

I finally launched my side project the other day and wanted to share it on HN.

Chatdog (https://chat.dog) is a new chat app inspired by IRC and AOL Instant Messenger where you can easily create public chat rooms and share them with friends or people online with similar interests.

E.g., https://chat.dog/fortnite and https://chat.dog/hacker-news are public chats that took 2 seconds to create and are easy to share!
But old people can be at college. That's the material difference; campus police are not going around blocking old peoples' view of advertisements.

To provide a counterpoint, you can't legally advertise the fact that there are no blacks in your housing development, however true that may be. In fact, there are many types of dogwhistling that are also banned when it comes to advertisement of housing.
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Why would I be ethically obligated to sign for it? I was obliged to sign things when I was an employee, but I haven't been for years.

Also, do you mean to imply if you have ever taken a paid position in the industry (as essentially every company will have you sign away your patents), then your opinion on software patents can never matter again?
Maybe what's missing in my original comment... What I'm trying to say is that there is a certain kind of organization (mostly traditional / old organizations) who would have these kinds of problems with any agile method.

And there are other organizations who can make any agile method work for them.

So, it's not really Scrum's fault when it fails (at least not always). And it's not really (or not only) Scrum's achievement when it succeeds.

As a friend of mine, Samir Talwar, once said: "To be good at software development, you need an organization that's optimized for software development. Most organizations are optimized for something else."

Anyway, if you implement a process, but ignore even the very short (22 pages) guide that summarizes the process, but instead cherry-pick what you think will work well in your org, then don't blame the process when it does not work.

As I wrote in my book: "But changing Scrum so it works within your company will not make you more agile – It will make Scrum less agile!"
Similar boat. I’ve been presenting passion projects to user groups / unconferences for a decade. Now, I wasn’t aware at the time but around 2013 seems like the turning point. I was getting tingles then. I never wanted to be a celebrity but it seems my aptitude has sent the wrong signals to some. I refuse to tow company lines, but acknowledge funding of open work or course. Starting to explore other outlets for sohpistic endeavors eg. live streaming (shameless plug, building an open source platform, search: ispooge live). People subscribe and keep coming back and chatting too, didn’t expect that but it’s pretty cool. I feel it can lead to a good career in some way, involving good natural collaboration. Maybe even money ;).
Out of curiosity do you really feel "forcing them to do backdoor defense work" is an accurate depiction? Not a googler, just curious if the option to switch team or opt out of the work was available.
I'm not sure about that but 100% what you post on reddit will get you targeted for specific ads that appear on facebook
RedReader is great and open source.
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The thing is I don't really need some foreign patent filing to pad my resume.
That's been our experience as well.

I much prefer the more holistic approach to development that Vue.js provides over React.

And we did spend a year working with React, so it's not just something we did off the cuff.
Did you even watch the video?? When the patient says his doctor rushed his colonoscopy which only lasted 5 minutes and that he was in extreme agony through the procedure, i'm going to believe the patient. That's a terrible service.
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That's a good question. Best stab at an answer is that I think it's true for most companies where it's possible that the next CEO will have gone to HBS and worked for McKinsey.

Would be a fun topic for research!
It's funny that was a Facebook scandal, while Reddit has movements like hail corporate trying to self-police dishonesty and manipulative behavior.

It seems like anonymity should be more of a driving force, but seeing both good and bad social media sites with each model, I'm no longer sure anonymity either preserves or inhibits culture... it might just be orthogonal.
Well... Try remaking your facebook profile with one difference.... Date of Birth.

See what happens.
Trello has been amazing for this.

I have different columns for the state of the application:

- Unsubmitted/Interested
- Submitted/In Process
- Recruiter Contact
- Phone Interview
- In Person Interview
- Offer
- Lost: Denied
- Lost: No Response

In each card, I attach the resume and cover letter (if applicable) that I sent. I have checklists to help prepare for different parts of the interview(s) and use the discussion comments to keep track of communication I have with different people. I've even used the discussion to track interview questions to help better prepare for other interviews (lots of coding screens use similar questions...).

If you wanted to keep contact information with the card, you could use a power up to attach a note from Evernote with contact information if you wanted. I usually just put the name in the discussion though.
or replace the wsj.com with fullwsj.com
Maybe it's a similar concept to the Nigerian prince scam emails purposefully containing misspellings.

If you catch it and raise an eyebrow you aren't the mentality they are looking for.
> it is an ad and not part of the hiring process.

If you were a qualified but rejected applicant, this ad targeting could demonstrate a pattern of behavior when you sued the employer for discrimination.
Conversely, I read Theranos's progress as evidence of cynical bets that the government/military could likely be directed into pumping billions of USD into the company regardless of its merit.
Cost per click is going to be vastly lower, since young people look for jobs much more often. You'll get applicants at a third of the price.
I can (and have) easily cashed out everything that is on the Steam marketplace for USD.

Ever heard of a third party? How about paypal? Is a gray market a concept foreign to you entirely?

I can exchange them to a bot, recieve Amazon gift card funds, and then turn that into USD.

I can trade them straight up for any cryptocurrency.

I can have a bank deposit made tomorrow.

I can exchange them for points on a website which get cashed out for USD/EUR/GBP.

The list goes on.

Just because you are ignorant and Steam isn't directly handing me a dollar for every Steam wallet dollar doesn't mean it is impossible.

Please educate yourself or stop feigning.
So, what do all their current trackers and such do, then?
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I wonder what kind of gains could be seen by using a fully rust-native bundle with something like notify [1]

[1]: https://crates.io/crates/notify
IMO, this comment is very specific to the particular company and/or market you’re working in.

If you’re at a classified government facility, your answers for these kinds of questions will be totally different than if you were at a small tech-savvy startup.
I think it'd be very fun to work for the state department or at a think tank as a subject matter expert-say in internal Brazilian politics or something wonky. A lot of fun government jobs. Some of those probably require a doctoral degree. Alternatively I agree a bachelors is a good foundation for a law degree.

Or I think one could work for a place like Stratfor or the other private intelligence/business intelligence firms that are less well known.

I also think it'd be a darn hoot to be a working historian (maybe in academia maybe not) of the kind who writes history books. Really just being a historian in general though.

> I am having a hard time thinking of things that would provide a labor pool large enough to have a reasonable chance of making a career of.

Everything I mentioned was a very high variance choice no doubt. Of course you are correct. It is probably not a good choice for the vast masses of people. I would not make a choice like this unless I was at a high brow college.

welp: I am stem person though but I sometimes wistfully ponder a different path.

edit: of course history seems to prepare one well for politics
Also, you could in theory, save the emails as files and attach them to the cards. I haven't done that but it could be a thing.
I am not sure about exact plans but I have ideas of the rough ones. Obviously this is not an official statement from Google!

Anyone will be able to opt-out of direct work on the project. Not sure about indirect work.

In the short-term, only a few people will work directly on the project. Long term maybe some more, since the goal is to get bigger projects. Many more people will indirectly contribute to it. For example, I recently TAed the ML101 class. Will one of my students work on the project, and whats the impact of that on my complicity?

Anyway, I basically think that if your company is a DoD contractor then you work for a DoD contractor, especially as an engineer. And I think the typical Googler is massively underestimating the implications of Google becoming a DoD contractor.
ha, no i haven't been, but you're right that forensic auditing isn't normally included in ordinary audits. an honest auditor will recommend one however, if they see something fishy in the regular audit.
You can be concerned about your security and tech-savvy. But it is true that some of us expect our organizations to be around longer than the three years it takes to either run out of money or get bought out by Google.
LinkedIn is a good place to start. Curriculum vitaes if you can find them. Asking around. Some CEOs of smaller companies than WD-40, typically startups with a younger age group, give them out in the About page of their website. Sometimes you can just guess (e.g. jeff@ some large used book company .com). Every time you discover one of these email addresses, you think "I could have guessed that on my first try."
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