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Your perception here does not really match the data [1]. In particular since 1979 all of America has been moving sharply upward.

And in fact I think this could be part of the 'problem'. In 1979 a total of 0.1% of the country qualified as rich, and 12.9% as upper middle class. Those numbers have skyrocketed to 1.8% and 29.4% (!!) as of 2014. The percent of people that qualify as below middle class has decreased substantially, but those that remain there are indeed going to see the rest of society doing better than ever - and that's true.

It's what I'd like to call the 'generous king effect.' Imagine a feudal nation with a king and 100 peasants. In spite of the king's absurd wealth, the nation would feel more or less equal. But imagine one day the king feels maybe he's been wrong to hoard everything to himself, so he decides to run a competition and grant the winners vast tracts of land and wealth. Well now society feels a bit less equal with some 10% having great wealth, but things are still mostly fair.

However, our king notices the increasing discontent and so again tries to resolve society. He doesn't have as much left though but wants to still help raise up society. So now he grants the 10 even greater tracts of land with some degree of autonomy, but now also runs another competition granting 30 new individuals wealth and land comparable to what only the 10 had before. We've seen a massive improvement in society. We went from a nation where the 100 had nothing to where 10 have enormous wealth, the 30 have great wealth, and now only 60 are left with nothing. Yet ironically, society is going to be more discontent than ever as suddenly 40% of people have great wealth while the 60% have nothing. What makes those 40% so special after all!?!?

In an effort to improve the lives of the people, those that experience the upward push last become less and less content. And even though their situation is likely even better than it was when all 100 people had nothing, it's probably not going to feel that way. We obviously don't have a king. But we do have an economic system that's making these changes, and it does indeed seem to be succeeding in increasing the economic power of everybody over time, and the social response seems similar - probably driven by a media who seems to love triggering anger and discontent.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17247283
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Hierarchies or simple category memberships are very simplistic: this is 1970s level natural language semantic processing, but I'm not sure it's appropriate. For example, Yoshihiro Murata is the 3 Michelin Star chef of Kyoto restaurant Kikunoi. In a June 2015 interview[0] in Mad Feed magazine he stated:

I think 50 years from now, the borders will be gone. We won't be talking about Nordic cuisine or Japanese cuisine anymore. It will be about what is delicious, without any sense of nationality. That will be the new cooking tradition.

The point being, perhaps rigid categories are the wrong approach and tastes are blending across traditional heirarchies. Last week at F&A Next[1] in Holland I met people are working on scientific flavor combination based recommendation engines already. Their market was chefs, but why not sell this feature directly to consumers?

There's another issue which is Halal in practice can mean anything from "doesn't include pork products" to "must be a certified Halal restaurant with certified Halal ingredients". They fail to differentiate this in the text. Basically it boils down to obtaining detailed personal preference and restriction information, which is good practice anyway in food service, in case of deadly allergies.

On the other hand, if you trust Michelin chefs, delivery is perhaps the wrong approach going forward. In March another three Michelin Star chef, Alvin Leung of HK's Bo Innovation was interviewed[1] by Salt Magazine and stated:

Maybe robots making fried rice is the future.

That's basically what we're working on at http://infinite-food.com/ .. we figure 3 minutes prep times mean 10-20x speed improvement vs. delivery plus full personalization ... raising Series A now to launch in three markets next year!

[0] https://www.madfeed.co/2015/a-japanese-master-on-innovation-...

[1] http://fanext.com/

[2] https://saltmagazine.asia/food/demon-chef-alvin-leung-collab...
I agree that the UI / user experience needs to be spec-ed out first. However, in terms of actual development, writing the DB schema's first is usually the right call. I typically feel that things should be designed outside-in, and developed inside out. Of course those are just general principles.
Only OpenStack is fully open source and fairly feature complete, with a few dozen providers using the OpenStack platform.

OVH, who owns the largest datacenter in North America uses OpenStack, they're actually one of the largest contributors. Red Hat & IBM both seem to be really pushing private deployments as of late for their larger clients that already own large DCs.
This same exact problem is happening in crypto today, but on a much larger scale and in a much more terrifying way. ICO after ICO, people with highly technical backgrounds are making huge claims, many of which are certainly impossible.

It is too difficult for a layman to figure out which ones, if any, are legitimate. It requires months of studying to have any idea. Even some of the brightest folks in Crypto (like Vitalik Buterin) seem to avoid talking about other groups (like Cardano), I'm guessing because it's just so damn hard to figure anything out with any certainty. And I think this is intentional on the part of the newer ICOs, because they are largely scamming everyone.

What is Vitalik going to say - "I don't understand Cardano"? That wouldn't go over well.
You might consider ensuring your bank account can be fully managed over the phone, internet, and app.

In the US, one such bank I know of is Simple (https://www.simple.com).

It's perfectly fine to keep a bank account in a country you no longer live in, but make sure to update your address accordingly, otherwise the IRS may think you still live in the US.
Nothing wrong with it per se. As a developer, I would love to move somewhere cheap and still be paid a Bay Area salary, so I could come back to the US and buy several houses after saving up a truckload of money. But I don't think that was the OP's goal.
I've worked mostly remote for over 20 years, both as an engineer and a business owner. I wouldn't give it up for the world.

However, simple fact: not all people are cut out for it. Some perfectly fine engineers are better in an office environment with other people. Sometimes an office environment is LESS distracting for those people, not more.

It also depends on where they are in life: A person with toddlers is going to have a better work life if they can get away occasionally. I had my own struggles with this and had to work through the new environment.

So, both are good and can work depending on when and where your life is at, and neither is perfect.
I wouldn't say that Google is high on my list of trust, either. But TypeScript and VS Code do not jump you into a #2 ranking. Go and Chrome easily trump them for starters. Then you get things like node that ride off V8, and Atom that rides off Chrome. The Google ecosystem of community building blocks is still much, much more significant than MS. After all, Google actually dogfoods OSS.

FWIW, I don't and wouldn't use a source code repository of Google's or Facebook's, either. In fact, rather than open a GitLab account, I started self-hosting a year ago. GitLab made that easy. I also looked at Pagure.
One could argue that what really decided Normandy's fate, and the fate of all of occupied France, was Operation Bagration, the real gut-punch that smashed the Wehrmacht and broke them, hundreds of miles to the east.

The scale and savagery of war on the eastern front is so mind boggingly incomprehensible, and relatively unknown for an English-speaking audience. If you have not, I highly recommend Dan Carlin's Ghosts of the Ostfront series of podcasts, to get even a sense of the insanity.

The western front was, in totality, almost a sideshow in comparison to the titanic, inhuman struggle raging from Black to Baltic seas.
On the consumer side, I think the end game is Intel shipping consumer SSD with 32GB of Optane, and much larger QLC MutiLayer NAND. Although I am not sure how that would compare to the recent SLC as cache and TLC for storage SSD in cost and performance. On the server side I am still waiting to see third parties results for using it as DIMM.

Obviously it would be much better if Optane is good / cheap enough. But given Micron hasn't given a concrete answer ( Optane / XPoint is a collation between Micron and Intel ), I doubt we see it being used any time soon.
> This is clickbait. Apple was sued by VirtnetX and forced to change how it works such that it relies on relay servers run by Apple. The author knows this, and knows that open sourcing a protocol that relies on Apple’s relay servers doesn’t make sense (because Apple’s not going to pay to run relay servers for third parties to use), so the only reason for this article to exist at all is to try to drum up outrage for pageviews.

I hate to be one of those "you didn't read the article" types, but this is clearly discussed and possible solutions are mentioned in the article.
Currently happening with JSON (instead of XML, instead of C0RBA) despite the brutality of ripping out comments to keep it simple. We now have json schema, soon jslt, json namespaces etc.

To be fair, it's not impossible for some improvement to occur in this process.
I'd pay for a good school shooter game. Pico's School was the game that practically put newgrounds on the map. One of the most popular Starcraft UMS RPG's was Highschool RPG, the school shooter was a popular character.
The 'goals' in peef reviews generally aren't useful personal goals though, they are goals set by the company to shape the performance scoring distribution

For example from a previous company some 'goals' included:

1. Take part in at least one company promotional activity e.g. manning a recruiting kiosk

2. Complete at least five computer-based learning modules.

Given the demands of project work these led to people staying behind after work to complete 'goals', or others just sacrificing performance 'points' because they didn't have time to compete. And them each year the thresholds would be ratcheted up.
Afaik, all EU authorities are required to communicate in a language you speak. You wouldn't have to hire Portuguese speaking counsel, they would have to get German translators.

(This rule is great for appealing traffic fines from abroad)
I have a feeling that JavaScript, and some other areas of open source, have a popularity contest problem - people building projects not because they're needed or useful, but for that brief moment of Internet fame.
I'm not very experienced with RE, but for my limited use-case Cutter/radare2 is usually as good as free IDA version. For this one old MFC4.2 app, Cutter was actually better than IDA at demangling the symbols!

It's very exciting to have such a great tool available. IDA might actually be detrimental in the long run. We desperately need more pentesters/infosec folks, and this generation's exposure is more high-level. So open-source RE tooling is essential to get people interested and messing about with this stuff (IMO).
Exactly, remote working is not about tech expertise but more about effective communication.
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That is false. It's likely the end-user can update it, but the LGPL does not prevent it from being impossible.

The LGPL makes it perfectly legal for the closed-source antivirus component to not load any 7zip .so binary that is not signed by the antivirus vendor, of a known hash, or so on... and the code loading said shared-object need not be available or modifiable, just the code for the vulnerable .so they do ship.
I doubt I am the first to call it that, but I haven’t seen it elsewhere that I am presently aware of. Having a taxonomy of this bad behavior, with useful names, does seem important, to make identifying it and discussing it more widespread.

I imagine young founders not wishing to be like Holmes could benefit from a rubric of sorts that helps classify this behavior. And for bad-faith founders who do want to behave like Holmes just without getting caught, talking more systematically about it would make it harder for them, limit their options.

What would be really cool is a modern version of Moral Mazes directed at startups.
pre-Atlassian BitBucket was a lovely app, then they landed that Web 9.0 JS abomination redesign. Because waiting 30 seconds for uncached Javascript assets to load while on the clock is totally acceptable, when all you really need is 500 bytes worth of a Git directory listing to render.

Left feedback, no response. Left feedback again, still no response. Moved everything to GitLab.

It's really hard to see great apps like this (and Reddit as a more recent example) destroyed by.. seemingly.. people given too much time to do their jobs. I'm not a front end guy, but the feeling I get is that it has the same problem as backend. Can't just cobble a few well-tested Django views together any more, must have a 16-microservice mess to ensure the CV is fully padded. Makes me so sad
Isn't this was Pachyderm was supposed to do?
Professional day traders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_day_trader

And usually when day trader is referred to in the financial industry, what they really mean is a professional trader that moves high volume for one person (you can technically be a pattern day trader at relatively low volume).
I don't know why you are getting downvoted. I think this is what will happen as well. It also helps solve the pension crisis.

Not that it's a "fair" solution but it is a solution.
The website appears to emphasize communicating via the written word and other asynchronous forms of communication. I'm curious whether you found communicating asynchronously didn't work or wasn't as effective or if it was the team members specifically that were the issue?
We are a remote-only company (Innolitics.com), and have hired several junior developers. I think it is harder for them to get up to speed, but definitely still quite possible. Pair programming, video calls, and detailed PR reviews all help.
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It looks VERY polished! Warning: it can export to PowerPoint, BUT each slide is an image -_- as if you screenshot each slide and paste it in PPT.
It's possible to combine event-driven simulation (for digital) and nonlinear differential equation based simulation (for analog) within the same simulator. The simulation engine can be smart enough to mix the two efficiently. As a toy model, consider this 4-bit counter plus DAC (click "Simulate" at the bottom):

https://www.circuitlab.com/editor/53xa3r/

The simulation loop is both event driven (when CLK1 flips state every 0.5 seconds), propagating those changes through combinatorial gates, and analog, simulating the op-amp to create a simple digital-to-analog converter (DAC). Bridging the analog and digital sides within the simulator is tricky, but not impossible.

You are correct that if there were not both event-driven and analog simulation intermixed, and we simply simulated all the digital gates with their analog implementations in MOSFETs, that simulation would be at least an order of magnitude slower -- probably far worse!

(Disclosure: I built CircuitLab's simulation engine.)
A more recent study from McKinsey in a similar vein: https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/Featured%20Insight....

Of interest, on page 2 there is a survey result: "87% of executives and directors feel most pressured to demonstrate strong financial performance within 2 years or less", and "55% of executives and directors at companies without a strong long-term culture say their company would delay a new project to hit quarterly targets even if it sacrificed some value".
People may or may not remember, but most of this started with ALT.NET movement, with a number of influential people and developer supported or created a number of projects.

Before ASP.NET MVC, there was Castle Monorail.
Before Entity framework or linq2sql, there was Nhibernate.

It was amazing times. It was clear Scott Guthrie started moving microsoft in that direction back in the day, after ALT.NET movement started proving success and showing an alternative to people.
Unless you're using something that has competent dead code elimination, like Google Closure Compiler. Then you can go ahead and include 30mb of libs, knowing that only a fraction will actually be shipped in the production version.
Also an anagram of "Done"
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I think you missed the details here - the idea is not to stop providing quarterly earnings reports, it’s simply to drop the forecasts from said reports.
Just tell the bank you’re moving for work and it’s open ended.

It’ll be close to impossible to reopen a US account once you’ve left the country. There are usually onerous fees and conditions on USD accounts in other countries. It depends on the country/bank.
Large phones was one. They specifically bashed the competition the year before saying that they weren't ergonomic.
Question: is it possible to build basic pull request and comment information storage into the git repository itself? This way, sites like Github are merely interfaces with no data import export requirements.
Loved the job description, but me not being an US citizen is a no-go, unfortunately.
I think the problem is with identity management.

Maybe a universal identity provider is required.
> Apple Watch is apparently the best selling watch (not just best selling smartwatch) in the world

That's rather "big fish in a small pond" in 2018, though, isn't it? It's like making the best-selling model of recumbent bicycle in the world.
That was the RAF meteorologist, James Stagg, who persuaded Monty and Eisenhower to move the date from the 5th to the 6th. :)

Famously if they had not gone on the 6th the next tide window would have seen the worst storms in years.

The Met Office's page: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/in-depth/d-day-70th-annive...
They depreciated Open GL and built Metal 2 for macOS, differentiating touch and mouse input screens from each other and file access are trivial by comparison.

It's not like iOS doesn't have a file system, they just don't allow you to access it.
It was mentioned briefly in one paragraph near the very end of the article, waved away with "Presumably, someone would have to pay for those servers" (which is a complete non-solution), and followed up by "But that doesn't make a broken promise less frustrating".

No solutions.
People here hate Gab and its founder. He's quite unpleasant. Expected to be downvoted into hell.
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Day traders are people who trade the same equity within the span of a single day, basically, or that’s the definition at a brokerage. If you were to flip an equity a couple times in a single day often enough, you’ll be labeled a “pattern day trader” and you will be legally forced to maintain a minimum balance of $25,000.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
trezor or ledger?
Obviously you aren't one of those, "I disagree with what you say but would fight to the death to protect your right to say it", people.

Personally I applaud Steam for their willingness to let adults make their own decisions about what content they want to purchase and consume, rather than outsourcing that decisions to the loudest mobs. Given the nature of modern society I've no doubt that Steam will face attacks from many, like yourself, who would prefer that Valve act as the Thought Police. I'm hopeful that they have the backbone to stick with this policy and weather the storm.
I agree. It's much less about productivity.

I analyzed my commits at my last part-time-remote job, before I went full remote, and I was about 2x as productive during times when I was not at the office, even when accounting for the fact that I scheduled meetings during in-office days.
That's incorrect. Tokens can prevent their transfer to parties that don't have the proper KYC. The smart contract decides that.
Open-sourcing it only matters if the third parties can actually talk to Apple customers using Apple's FaceTime. If third parties can't use Apple's relay servers then they can't talk to Apple customers using Apple FaceTime. If all you're interested in is having some protocol to use for video chatting and don't care about talking to Apple customers, then what's the reason for trying to use FaceTime's protocol? I didn't think they were really doing anything particularly special on the protocol side.
I just wanted to say, the fact that you mentioned awk is awesome (I did a find on page and found your post). Unfortunately I'm in the USA so the commute onsite to Berlin would be a bear :-)
There are cheaper sources of protein than catfood, sold for human consumption. This is a weird meme.

Though, if I was a retired person, I'd move back home in the mountains and eat trout and squirrel and deer meat everyday. Buy a lot and a trailer for a pittance. Get a library card.

God, that'd be a life...
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> On the other hand, they had some pretty incredible scientific talent on staff. You would think that people who are highly cited and have a reputation to protect would have spoke up sooner. Instead, the first two people to make any kind of sustained fuss were two fresh out of college hires.

Knowing how to work within the system is probably how they were afforded the chance to build this reputation int the first place. It's possible they were trying to do the same here but didn't realize the fundamental differences between the academic system and the commercial one.

Fresh college grads haven't yet learned how to "not make waves", which is a blessing and a curse.
> Have you asked HR or your boss if they have an explicit mentorship program at your new job?

Yes, they have a program for those who are college hires (hired straight from college). I was not a college hire: this is my second job, but my first job at a purely tech company. My first wasn't programming related but I managed to change that. However, at my current job, I'm treated like a college hire yet not included under the program we have, including the benefits it has.

> I usually grab a coworker

I can talk to my manager and other coworkers if I need to and they'll help with things, it's not that they're not available to help.

> (Yes, its politiking)

I don't think it's politiking, but socialization is somewhat difficult at my company. The next-youngest person on my team is just about twice my age, and they've already got their social networks set or are simply uninterested. I found it much easier at my previous company, where even though I was nervous as a fresh grad, people were willing to talk and take breaks. I haven't really found an "in" socially, although everyone is nice and polite.
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