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You say my words send signals, and that the signals depend in this case on the color of my skin. That seems to me to be an evasive way of saying some people will discriminate whether what I'm saying is perfectly OK or terribly offensive based on my race.

If the interpreter sees themselves as a member of a racial group, and thinks that their racial group has ownership over a word, they may get upset if they see an outsider using their word. I understand that. That is what's happening. But the mentality in which someone sees themselves as a member of some separate group because of their race is exactly what I am opposing.

You say our actions send signals. Well, is this guy just drinking water at a water fountain? Is he just sitting on a bus? Or is he sending a "signal" that he thinks he's as good as a white man by drinking from the "wrong" fountain or sitting in the "wrong" seat on the bus? The problem is not entirely within the so-called signal, a big part of it is within the mind of the interpreter.

I know how saying that word would be received by a lot of black people, and I would never do that, as I have a very strong commitment never to harm anyone, and just a lot of general sympathy, compassion, and love for black people. But I have to resist if anyone starts claiming that their race gives them special ownership over words. That is a step in the wrong direction.
I'd also add while they may not be doing the work the direct manager should have general knowledge of what his people are doing and if they need assistance or guidance should be able to either supply it themselves or be able to summon the resources to make it happen. They may not be doing the work directly, but the indirect influence they have to ensure they are building their employees and having an effective team is what they are getting paid for.
Quality of sleep is critical. It also gets an amazing lack of...shall I say "respect".

Most people have neighbors. Houses are often built poorly insulated. City regulations often have a very tight window of "quiet" hours (eg: 11pm to 7pm), that are only barely enforced, if at all. Stuff like you mentioned, lights and such, don't help. So you have a ton of undersleeping people, which is likely to affect society as a whole quite drastically.
They often don't.

But when they do, it's because of leveraged impact. If I'm a 10x engineer, then that's a huge individual contribution. However, if I'm a 2x manager with 12 reports, then my impact is greater than a 10x engineer. That is to say, if I can make my 12 reports twice as productive, then that's a huge benefit to the org. If I'm a 2x director with 4 managers reporting to me, then that 2x compounds through each level of the org.

Now, a 2x manager might seem far fetched, but so is a 10x engineer if we're being honest. Think about your productivity under your best boss vs your worst boss.

What is a bit of nonsense is bad managers. But that's a whole different issue, with tomes of academic research (see The Peter Principle) trying to figure out why incompetence is so pervasive in management.
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Of course that $78T will be mostly monopolized by the usual suspects but more is better no matter the circumstances!
I work for a company where the CEO admitted to earning LESS than the top earner. The CEO is still worth more because of other assets, but the VP of Sales earns the most annual take-home in the company.
Well let's start by noting that there are exceptions to this rule. A principal engineer in a couple companies I've worked for was in a higher bracket than almost all the managerial levels.

Next let's explore the ideal case. An engineer is very good at using tools to accomplish work. A good manager should be very good at using/making/helping humans accomplish work. Totally different skill set, but not easy, and potentially very profitable for the company. I think that there is a belief that if you assume responsibility for a team that you are now the primary locus of work getting done or not and thus your risk/reward levels are increased.

The reality is more along the lines of, "persuasive people end up in control of capital and then pay people like themselves more." Really effective leaders, through myriad strategies both good and bad, manage to take the potential work output of a group of individuals and focus it on their goals preferentially. This is super powerful. They see this as their particular talent and power and, noting how powerful it is, want to compensate others who are doing something similar. This is an admittedly jaded and machiavellian take on management.
Asserting that independent expenditures don't cause "harm" in terms of corruption or the appearance of corruption is arbitrary. In fact, independent expenditures are quite likely to lead to excessively favorable treatment even in the absence of an explicit quid pro quo.

Limiting campaign contributions is a limit on speech, and limiting independent expenditures is also a limit on speech. Those that insist that one causes harm and the other does not have merely arrogated to themselves the right to define "harm".
>does not directly contribute to the work.

This is, in my experience, generally not the case.

Setting aside all the implicit indirect contributions (support, development, coaching, personality management, etcetera), managers generally shape work by deciding what work is going to be done, how to mobilize resources, communicating the results outside the team's domain, and being accountable for it. Those are direct, tangible contributions.
It's dismaying that user 5DFractalTetris' comments here are so heavily downvoted, since they're clearly civil, literate, grammatical, and made in good faith.

Personally I find 5DFractalTetris' claims to be preposterous and wrong, but IMHO downvotes should be reserved for something other than "I disagree with this comment."
Chaos theory predates that, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory
Cause handling people and their issues is about 5000 times harder than handling code. Your code doesn't get cancer, run away with a coworker, go bankrupt, have opinions, lie, steal, needs to be told how to use a restroom, needs protection when it's layoff season etc etc etc
In good companies there are two career paths:

- a management track

- an IC (individual contributor) track

There are different levels on the different tracks, and each is paid for that level. A super experienced IC will be paid more than a junior manager, and vice versa. So it doesn't have to be true that a manager earns more than an IC, and for example many ICs at Google are paid millions of $$, much much more than the average manager (or average IC, of course).

But when managers are paid more, why is that? Sometimes, the experience needed to be a manager is higher. For example, an engineering manager that wasn't previously an engineer may struggle to manage their team. As such, an engineering manager might have 10 years of engineering behind them before making the leap over to other track, and we don't just start them at the bottom given their relevant experience.

Another reason is that managers are multipliers. A good manager can take a team of good ICs and turn them into amazing ICs working together as a team. A bad manager might multiply the team by 0.5, or 0.1, but no-one hires a manager expecting them to suck, so you pay them as if their multiplier is 2x (and hopefully fire them if they suck).

Of course, managers and ICs are different roles in the employment market. ICs often don't like management (which is a challenging, and often very different job from ICing). So they different have supply/demand curves.

If the above doesn't apply to your workplace, then the obvious thing is true: they pay managers more because they value managers more. Whether that is the right thing to do is clearly in the eye of the beholder.
Yeah, it sounds more like they didn't find a way to gauge performance.

It seems similar to how a "bad doctor" might be the one who is taking the difficult to save cases and having higher fail rates. Difficult children make it difficult for the teachers, but the mediocre ones won't want to bother with them.
That's true and definitely the fastest route to take - but if you were to tell me I was going to take over maintenance of a JQuery project at this point, I would be visibly upset. After working in an environment where two-way databinding is "free" and some measure of type-safety is available, it's hard to go back. I just have more drive to work on projects where I don't need to manually wire up every onChange event under the sun and coordinate data-flow through some observer. Not if I can help it.
While he may very well be both, I will take an average scientist/engineer with a talent for communication over the inverse any day.
I doubt it even works for trade. Full free trade has caused money flow to 3rd world countries at the cost of natives. China has policy of trading off ip for privilege of cheap manufacturing. So its growing in tech at the cost of west. What west gets in return in temporary cheap goods and must of 2$ crap toys which break.
So you think the current copyright system in the US is perfect, then? You’re part of the problem if you support overaggressive copyright enforcement. It’s my device, I paid for it, I should be allowed to do WHATEVER the hell I want with it.
>You get the bundled version when you click "Download FileZilla Client" and then the big green "Download FileZilla Client" button (assuming you're visiting the website from a Windows or macOS client)... In order to get the clean version, you have to click "Show additional download options" and then pick the version you want.

Right, nothing shady about this UI pattern at all.

>"This installer may include bundled offers." makes this also very clear.

It makes nothing clear. It's purposely vague language used to disguise the fact that these "bundled offers" consist of software no person would actually chose to install on their machine.

>For anyone saying that Filezilla can't be trusted anymore due to doing this, it's still open source and you can check out and build the code yourself: https://filezilla-project.org/sourcecode.php

What would that accomplish? The issue is that the dev doesn't even know what the hell comes across the wire when you chose to install this crap. How is reading the FileZilla source helpful?
Many illegal immigrants do pay taxes. They can't get almost any job without an ITIN and paying taxes. Their employer needs an SSN or ITIN for the paperwork:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_Taxpayer_Identifica...
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It's not expensive at all. It's around $5-10 for a vial of ketamine.

The cost benefit definitely matters because it's possible to go broke with IV infusions. I pay. around $5 a lozenge.
Thank you. Two "please subscribe" type popups before I could even see it. I quit then.
You seem to have a problem hiring the right people ;-)
I don't get this argument. I just went to CVS and bought their white labeled lotion and some band aids, that were nearly identical in ingredients to the branded stuff sitting right next to it on the shelf.

My soap at home is similarly target's in house stuff. Half the things I buy from Costco are Kirkland.

Why do I do it? Because it's like half the price. Just like buying say AmazonBasics batteries vs Energizer.
And what are these "offers" exactly? Are they applications someone will update actually want to install on their machine if they knew what they were? You can't actually be this obtuse.
This is such a turn-off to the industry. I'm not going to accidentally login to an unencrypted URL and get jail time because it's considered unauthorized. I'd love to be a hacker, but the thought of prison is too much.
He literally shows tooling marks from the injection molding process on the chair...
That's pretty typical for enterprise software. Sales people get zero equity--their comp is purely a percentage of sales on top of a relatively low base.

This seems economically rational. You want your sales people focused on selling.
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> It doesn’t touch the DOM and there’s a VERY good reason for that.

Yes, because they haven't gotten to it yet and wanted to release the MVP without that functionality. But that feature is coming (hint: it's called host bindings), so implying that there's some other reason why DOM access from WASM wasn't added is pretty disingenuous. Once that feature and garbage collection arrive in WASM, there will be almost no reason why JS needs to be used on the front end.
First, this is not strictly true; many senior ICs get paid more than managers, and the comparison between manager-track job levels and IC-track job levels varies at different companies.

Part of it is that good managers act as an umbrella for their reports and keep unnecessarily distracting or stressful issues from taking up their time. But that means the manager is dealing with that stress instead.

Part of it is that managers often have a broader scope of responsibility. Senior managers and higher often have multiple projects under their belt and are held responsible for their continued success.

Part of it is that the success state of a manager's work depends on the success of other employees, which makes it more difficult for them to control whether they do well by their own effort. A really good manager could be paired up with a really bad employee who eventually has to be fired; did that manager do a bad job since their report got fired, or did they do a good job identifying that they needed to be fired? It's situational, and that ambiguity increases the risk of being fairly rewarded. Higher risk demands higher compensation.

Part of it is that demand for good managers is high enough that the market prices their salaries higher. Anecdotally, I can say that a bad manager hire has a much worse impact than a bad IC hire, so the stakes are higher, which raises prices.
Similar story. Looking back it really felt like a "boys will be boys" experience. I wasn't doing any real harm. Just script kiddie stuff. Some basic JavaScript stuff. When I was 17 a lawyer came after me with a cease and desist on behalf of a very large board game company. That's when I realised that I'm basically an adult now and I can't screw around anymore.
Utter rubbish.

If thrill-seeking adolescents can compromise your systems, you deserve to be out of business.

Yes, security is hard, but it is an spectrum, from compromisable by adolescent thrill-seekers to state-nation actors.

Most systems are there to facilitate business, personal, or even more critical, industrial or military operation, none of which you want to be easy to compromise.

And as for SaaS, it does nothing to security but increase the attack surface by requiring more components in your system and requiring the system to be always online, in 99% of cases anyways. On top of that, with SaaS you not only have to secure your systems but also safeguard your clients' data, which only reinforces the idea that: if you can't do basic security, you should be out of business.

And in what world does DRM helps with security? DRM is nothing short of a device of enforcing draconian copyright laws.
As an alternative future, the one I want to dee and am actively working torwards. Cryptocurrency platforms offer a way forward to begin again with how we design governments. I'm particularly excited about joining many different types of governance systems that are borderless and for the most part, resistant to attack by the legacy power structures. As these new types of governments grow and accumulate power we should see a diminished requirement for traditional border control and military might accumulation. It's a long shot, but it's the future I want.
The fact that a clean installer exists is not really the point, nor should you take it as an opportunity to plug your company.
I felt like this thread is way more negative than the others.

Most of the time, it is all love.
I can vouch for the futility of remaining in a “disaster” relationship for far too long...
To be fair, that doesn't explain what you said earlier. It's probably what you meant, but it isn't what you said.
Well i hear sometimes that india was better off under imperial rule than now. There was better rule of law. I guess india should have waited another 50-100 years for independence.
The lower chance of it happening on Patreon is important. It's the reason why youtube creators are using Patreon to provide themselves with relative stability in light of Youtube's capriciousness.
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There's a thorough update and report of troubleshooting at the bottom which strongly indicates it's not just a random fault. Did you read it?
> Clark had just turned 27 and left behind an estate valued at more than $4 million.

He got to keep the money even though he got convicted for wire fraud?
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https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6558_-_de_-_saal_g_-_201412282...

I'd believe him more then any other source.
> needs to be told how to use a restroom

If I can go a whole quarter without seeing some unspeakable mess in the bathroom of a fortune 50 company, that would be amazing. 7+ years in, so far no luck.
Great post. From my experience, becoming an IC that is "paid millions of $$" is akin to being Kobe Bryant [EG you prototyped google earth or wrote swift]. Most will never become Kobe Bryant - I don't care how many basketballs you toss in the air. But, IMHO becoming a highly paid manager just takes experience, a smile and luck (placed on the right team).
The world might be $78 trillion richer, but if current wealth distribution patterns hold up most of that will end up further enriching the rich.
I don't know about modern chips, but 1970s and 1980s logic chips just used big MOSFETs to drive their outputs. There wasn't any weird timing magic going on.

There are also processes like analog BiCMOS that let you mix bipolar analog circuitry and CMOS on the same chip. I also wrote recently about the 76477 sound chip that combined I2L logic with bipolar analog circuits.
Hunting was not as easy as just clicking a button. You had to rotate your avatar in the 8 directions and press the space bar to shoot. The bullet may also be blocked by landscape and previously shot carcasses.

Events also occur a lot more often such as thieves stealing your supply. You were also allowed to trade in case you lost your oxen which determines how far of a distance you can go each day. The total distance was also longer than just 500 miles.
'lynching', 'uppity', a bunch of variants of 'they're the real racists', 'neo-segregationists'. You consistently and repeatedly adopt the language of actual oppression and violence against minorities to describe your particular minor grievances. The only people who speak in those terms are racists and racist-apologists. If you don't want people to think you're one of them, find another way to express yourself.

But I have to resist

Yeah, you're joining the Maquis over the jackbooted thuggery of some random person getting fired from Netflix.
Manager jobs are significantly more stressful and harder to train for than individual contributors. And my personal opinion is that good managers are much rarer than individual contributors.
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Too bad it has a different heap per thread. If I want to extend a C (or rust) posix-multithreaded program, it means I can't easily use gluon to access the state of my program (which requires accessing posix-multithreaded protected variables in the normal heap). Same thing that makes Lua useless to simply extend actual, pre existing C programs.

Anyway, I'm still happy to see that more modern languages than algol have gained enough influence than the choice of type system, type inference and non C like syntax is not frowned upon anymore.
Ah fair enough. The change makes sense then.
Good perspective, pbiggar.

Question for clarification: Do those ICs making "a lot" report to managers that make more, less or equal (generally speaking of course)?
the work of a manager isn't to 2x its team. The work of the manager is to maintain the structure and order. I.e. to fill the role of glue/bone/wood and may be pipes with some direction-based filtration of content.

>why incompetence is so pervasive in management.

Technical incompetence seems to help in being a successful order maintainer. That way you don't get easily swayed by technical reasons away from the "right way" that the higher-ups lead you on. Natural selection in management doesn't behave kindly toward managers questioning technical merits of the decisions flushed down ... err ... communicated from the higher levels.
This is looking a little closer to what I was looking for.
Yes, based on an idea my son had in 2010 (when he was 12), we built a “LEGO compatible” iPhone case.

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Peer to peer networking is being rebranded as "fog" because its cloud brought down to encompass everything. So now your laptop, phone, fridge, and toilet are the cloud too.
I found the artifacts odd too. It sounds like the guy speaking has gotten a bad cold or allergy and has stuffed sinuses.
> If you're already on Windows 10, at the very least embrace UWP to get some control over your privacy.

This is reasonable. And, at this point it's important to note that the first comment in the chain advocated for moving off the platform.
Clearly it's exaggerated bullshit.

People put themselves through hell all the time; I'd be dead if you could 'never repay the sleep debt'.

They should focus on how miserable sleep deprived people become - that's a real, un-repayable cost.
> If thrill-seeking adolescents can compromise your systems, you deserve to be out of business.

So, literally everyone deserves to be out of business? I am not aware of any major software company that has at all times been invulnerable to thrill-seeking adolescents.

Perhaps we should coin a new law. The law concerns a statement of the form: "If X, you deserve to be out of business." The law is that the statement is generally false.
Commingled inventory is an option for FBA sellers. You can disable it easily from your FBA account; I think at this point the "problem" is only for beginning sellers who aren't aware that it's on by default
Really great article. As someone who first became interested in computer science from Xbox “hacking” and JTAGing 360s this shows an alternative path that would have been easy to go down. When you become enveloped by the status you attain in forums, meet sketchy “friends” online, and start getting easy money, then the path of least resistance becomes the one in this article.
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This semi-related TED talk also describes Yakhchal and describes a different, local technique of ice production (as opposed to faraway mountains):

"How we can turn the cold of outer space into a renewable resource"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a5NyUITbyk
"OLE embedding and OpenDoc utterly failing has been one of my great frustrations in the computer field. I should be able to have a universal document format with intelligent encapsulated data that I can manipulate in flexible ways."

I think we have had this in the form of the UNIX shell environment and various command line primitives like cat/awk/sed/grep/wc/strings.

It isn't sexy and it certainly isn't a WIMP[1] paradigm like Windows (which I associate exclusively with OLE) but if you can work with ASCII text (and you should...) then I think you have that environment and those abilities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIMP_(computing)