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> I often joke that my goal is to become independently wealthy so that I can afford to get some work done. Mainly that’s about being able to do things without having to explain them first, so that the finished product can be the explanation. I think this will be a major labor saving improvement.

I believe this is true for almost every ambitious (maker/engineer). It’s really hard to convince Management about something new because they don’t experience the pain. Sometimes their Job depends on not understanding it.

Probably a reason why Startups outperform big companies in certain niches.

The big dilemma right now is there’s little funding available that can compete with the salaries of big companies. Rents have shot up so high that it’s not easy to take 6 months of to build something so you don’t have to explain. Failure has become expensive.

My theory is that even though people are getting paid more, we’re in this weird paradox of having less innovation.
Not very popular? They seem extremely popular to me.
Ascribing a religious aspect to weird things isn’t that weird. Think humans have an innate and slightly flawed sense of probability and statistics, so events that are very rare on the flawed model are often ascribed causation by divine intervention. Mutations might be worshipped, uncommon geological formations considered holy or god-wrought, and uncommonly lucky people being ascribed divine characteristics. Rare hashes are the digital equivalent.
I can personally suggest FreeLing [nlp.lsi.upc.edu/freeling]. It supports most languages in the iberian peninsula (spanish, portuguese, catalan (including multiple dialects), galician), and then it also includes english, italian, french, german, russian, croatian and slovene. It's also more flexible than other tools if you need to go outside those languages and customize something.
Oh for sure. I even responded saying that it's clearly parody (modified their logo to be the hacking softwares logo) and that's protected in Canada. But she kept coming and I forget who but someone said that while I'm right I'm in over my head and to decide how much I care about the site. Decided to just move on to other projects.

Also I was 17 and I imagine I was more easily intimidated.
I wrote a blog post about this.

http://www.iancollmceachern.com/single-post/2016/07/21/Pie-a...

The writers of the Men in Black movies called it "getting pie" and so do I.

You have to make time and space for lightning to strike.
Blender and OCW weren't monetizing their channels on YouTube... Some people just want to share their content. Not everyone is in it for the money.
Which begs the question: "Why bring up this study at all?"
I've seen the 11:11 and 1:11 come up a lot in random people's Facebook posts and memes. Or, driving around, they'll tell you to make a wish.
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YouTube started without advertising revenue too.

I understand that doesn't help current creators but the problem YouTube competitors have right now seems to be a cycle of trying to match features, run out of money, shut down

My theory is any site with a chance of toppling YouTube needs to avoid trying to topple YouTube directly and rather recreate its rise to the top
I haven't used RedHat since they started to charge for it. Fedora 27 was ok.

I think Linux generally works on the desktop. It's true that GNOME 3 is still buggy. I've had Nautilus crash on me while copying files and other horrible things.

Wayland hardly has any apps with native support, it crashes a lot and the hardware support sucks too. Also (afaik) applications such as Wine can never be ported to Wayland.

However GNOME and Wayland are just one bleeding edge.

If you run X with some stable WM or DE, things work so well it's almost boring.
I like to call our approach "radically earnest."
The best I've worked with have a knack for presenting making their contrary ideas agreeable.

While the jerks assume they are being attacked for their beliefs, the smart ones understands the value of group effort.
>You adopt the neutral tone to avoid endless whataboutery.

>It's hard for me to imagine that people wanted to be sacrificed, but that's my own biases and cultural conditioning talking.
I have managed a disagreeable giver. I very much appreciated his upfront style and his passion. But whenever he was exposed to the rest of the organisation people took him as hostile and arrogant. Ultimately me backing him made me untenable. Moral is that working with contrarians are good but be careful.
pay off the mortgage. You don't know, right now, where you'll want to be when it comes to needing a larger house.

When it comes time to move, try to sit down and figure out what you actually need in a house vs what you see other people at your pay scale and age buying.
Actually this subject is taken up directly in a chapter of Robert Sapolsky's Behave that I just read titled, appropriately enough, "Adolescence; or, Dude, Where's My Frontal Cortex?"

Some interesting stuff in there, some of which you're probably already familiar with. You could argue that a kid does "think" about it. But to use the word "concludes" may be a stretch.

I found this passage by Sapolsky on the neurobiology of risk/reward assessment in adolescents especially interesting and relevant here:

Age differences in absolute levels of dopamine are less interesting than differences in patterns of release. In a great study, children, adolescents, and adults in brain scanners did some task where correct responses produced monetary rewards of varying sizes. During this, prefrontal activation in both children and adolescents was diffuse and unfocused. However, activation in the nucleus accumbens in adolescents was distinctive. In children, a correct answer produced roughly the same increase in activity regardless of size of reward. In adults, small, medium, and large rewards caused small, medium, and large increases in accumbens activity. And adolescents? After a medium reward things looked the same as in kids and adults. A large reward produce a humongous increase, much bigger than in adults. And the small reward? Accumbens activity declined. In other words, adolescents experienced bigger-than-expected rewards more positively than do adults and smaller-than-expected rewards as aversive. A gyrating top, nearly skittering out of control.

This suggests that in adolescents strong rewards produce exaggerated dopaminergic signaling, and nice sensible rewards for prudent actions feel lousy.

That's not the whole story when it comes to kids' decision making, but it's of a piece with the rest of the chapter and shows that most kids are literally -- anatomically -- unable to think about things like this in a way they will be able to a few years later.
It reminds me of the GreenArrays chip created by Chuck Moore. There was some hubbub here on HN a few years ago about it -- what ever happened to it?

http://www.greenarraychips.com/
The biggest differences I remember are that there were more species of dinosaurs, the kids were slightly younger and basically had their personalities reversed, Nedry's hack was more sophisticated, and Genero turns all macho and becomes Muldoon's assistant instead of getting eaten. None of those seemed particularly artificial to me. What changes made you angry?
I don't really get this attitude of because it can be done it's therefore ok. It's possible to kill people therefore it's ok. It's possible to loiter therefore it's okay. It's possible to play your music at all hours of the day at 120db therefore its ok. It's possible to drive your motorcycle into a grocery store therefore it's okay.

The physical world has plenty of laws and/or common sense/customs about what behavior is not okay even though it is fully possible. Why should the net be any different?
Many don't primarily rely on YouTube advertising revenue (especially since YT has become fairly aggressive in excluding videos from monetization anyways). Sponsored content, in-video advertising, Patreon etc. all are revenue sources that don't rely on the platform providing advertising.
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This is the answer. The reason anyone gets paid what they get paid in the free market is supply and demand, whether it be for their labor, for a product they're selling, or for a security they own. It's not about what they deserve— see the oft-quoted idea that teachers do work that's both difficult and important but are not generally well-compensated. What you make is not a function of what you abstractly deserve or how difficult your job is. It's a function of how many people are able and willing to do it, at what price, and how many people are able and willing to pay to have it done, and at what price. This applies to both IC's and managers.

As others have noted in this thread, it's not always true that managers are paid more, but you're right to note that it's normal. There are some dynamics at play to make it happen. Two that spring to mind are (a) managers are often promoted from the ranks of successful IC's. They've probably been around for a few annual raises / promotions as an IC, plus they get a raise for the management promotion. It adds up. (b) A bad manager has more destructive potential than a bad IC. They can make more expensive mistakes, and devote teams of IC's to making those mistakes with them. Their negative attitudes or incompetence can tank morale across lots of people, rather than just their immediate teammates. Their inefficiency can lower the productivity of lots of IC's, rather than just themselves. All the same applies in the positive direction, but the negative is key, because loss-avoidance psychology is a strong force. So if I'm deciding peoples' compensation and I have a good manager, I'm going to pay them enough to keep them. If I don't, and I need to replace them, then I run the risk of making a bad hire, which would make a lot of people miserable and may lead to more attrition, especially among their direct reports, whose work is also valuable to me. If you've been lucky enough to have bad coworkers fired quickly, you know that their (ex) teammates breathe a sigh of relief and thank management for dealing with it. On the flipside, if an IC gets a new manager every few months, (especially a new _bad_ manager) they quickly decide this is a chaotic workplace and take their skills elsewhere.
I think a lot of it depends on where you live. If you're willing to live in a crazy far away place in the US or Canada OR you're in Eastern Europe/Taiwan/Thailand where prices haven't quite gone bananas as they have here, you can still do this sort of thing.

Historically, though, a lot of the innovative things we have enjoyed came because of large corporations and governments willing to invest in research and development. Just take a look at the history of Bell Labs or DARPA, for example.
A resident of any Shengen country can work and live in any other Shengen country that's why I cherry picked. Sorry confused EB1 with EB5.
This is automating the creation of a fresh desktop environment, which would otherwise take hours. For example, I can try out a few different Android dev environments without them leaving ghosts behind to mess with future android dev environments.
It is sad that we're at this point where people can't just live in a relaxed manner tinkering on new ideas. I remember Silicon Valley in the early 90s you really had a more hippie mentality and not everyone had a high paying salary and some people were just hanging out and talking and try new things. Austin has a little bit of this Vibe now.
It doesn't have to be JSON in this case, but JavaScript. Anyway, even XSLT has JavaScript support!
There's another point that's relevant. If someone isn't producing the goods, they need need to make themselves liked somehow. Joke around, pat people on the back for whatever they do, generally act positive. That way people might not notice they're not pulling their weight.

This happened at a place I worked at, and it was compounded by the others being too agreeable to call him out. When I eventually did it ended badly for me.
Why did they pick 6 years as the measurement for a successful relationship? Given a perfectly justified skepticism of social science studies, that number seems very much like sample retrofitting. Beyond that, even their hypothesis is absurd as it implies that the way a person interacts is a causal factor for a relationship, yet the way people interact with their partner is quite obviously caused by how they get along! It's like saying people who enjoy going to the beach are often tanned, and implying that if you're not tanned that is a causal relationship with you not going to the beach. It's really bizarre logic.
This is very good advice and it also goes for children as well. If you want to prevent most of the fussiness of kids, make sure they stay hydrated and give them a healthy snack every couple of hours. If they are of napping age, be consistent with naps. It's not a cure-all for tantrums, but it certainly minimizes them.
This reminds me of the potentially more dangerous “raw water” trend a couple of years ago. People can be weird at times.
> I see two options here.

Yes, or perhaps a combination of techniques. E.g. shared database to train an ML system to detect ads. Of course, the downside is that the ad industry will then tweak the ads until they pass the ML test.

> I wouldn't try to productise an app that takes away the main source of income for the radio stations.

I wouldn't think of it as taking away a source of income, but rather as forcing them to find a source that doesn't bother their customers so much. Ad blockers seem to be getting more accepted.
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Surely you're trolling? Good for you that you live somewhere affordable. Lots of people (much more than 1% of the population) don't, or can't find these "good jobs" you speak of right out of college.
A great example of this is the album Death Magnetic by Metallica.

The album version is compressed to hell but the version that shipped with Guitar Hero has none of that extra compression, presumably because someone who wasn't deaf mixed it.

The difference is night and day.
> I mean if you just compare what best practices there are in security, like openness especially when it comes to incidents. So many incidents came out through detours and sometimes only after years.

You're going to have to be specific about claims like this, because this comes across as FUD in the US given the stringent transparency requirements the NRC holds licensees accountable.

To see current events:
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/...

Edit: Also your argument about the failure of Chernobyl is not compelling as you provide no evidence of how the existing analog systems failed in a way that digital systems would not leading to an an aversion of the accident. It is generally accepted that it was a combination of [lack of] system redundancy (analog or digital does not matter), inherent risk with the beta reactor design coefficient, and poor operator understanding of the neutron poison buildup from the low power excursion.
Per curiosity, is the guilty extension a pomodoro app ?
As someone who almost always buys generic brand from wherever I shop I'm pretty aloof to these complaints. Target, Walmart, and Costco all have in house brands.

The Amazon brand "Goodthreads" Oxfords I wear to the office are very impressively well made for the price. Compared to the Target "Goodfellow & Co" ones at the same price there's a higher level of quality and finish. They're better than the Banana Republic ones I had at half the cost.
You gonna pretend US border patrol is welcoming mexicans in US? That whole 0 tolerance thing is escaping your attention?
I still hold the opinion that YouTube didn't win because of the social features we think of now - it won because in 2005, it was the only video player that always did something when you hit the Play button. That was it.
The Bitcoin community has changed greatly over the years; from technophiles that could explain a Merkle tree in their sleep, to speculators driven by the desire for a quick profit & blockchain startups seeking billion dollar valuations led by people who don’t even know what a Merkle tree is.

I'm not sure which version of history this guy was on, but it clearly hasn't been the one I followed. He's describing a past that never was.

Read the old Bitcoin Talk posts. It took years for Bitcoin's technical ideas to become well-understood by even a fraction of the user base.

Pick any year after 2010 and you'll find that the vast majority of Bitcoin users were in it to: (1) stick it to the man; (2) make a buck; or both.

Interest in the technology itself motivates only a tiny fraction of users.
> So the right time, right place, right idea is still the combination needed

And the right people.
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>The security issue, which the security firm refers to as the Firebase vulnerability

IMO, calling the vulnerability the "Firebase vulnerability" makes it seem like it's a problem on Firebase's side. But is it really their problem? At what point do we start blaming the developers instead of the service?
Yeah being an X employee is setting a low bar. Behavior has to be adapted on a situational basis, and if you can’t, that’s a problem across the spectrum.

Though if I had to pick favorites I would totally go for agreeable giver who wields the other 3 roles for impact :-).
RHEL 7 is seeing changes in the DE version (Gnome 3.8 to 3.22) and other library changes within the 10 year support period so not frozen as much as RHEL 6. Swings and roundabouts.
I suspect your comment is tangical to the what myself and the GP were discussing as I don't really understand why qt5 using QML would affect the look and feel of existing legacy qt4 applications.

Running qtconfig-qt4 and redefining the config I wanted did fix the "ugliness" of qt4 applications after I upgraded to KDE5 (or whenever it was KDE switched qt versions)
Fresh water is definitely a scarce resource in some parts of the world. To quote the article (my emphasis):

> Coca-Cola keeps distribution costs low by tapping local water sources, a practice it has continued since the company’s early success at Atlanta-area soda fountains in the late 1800s. By the 2000s, however, local people in some of the world’s increasingly water-stressed regions were looking more critically at big water users, and Coca-Cola found itself a target of public ire.
>"Nothing stopping you from creating your own" is quite a trivialization of how difficult it actually is to break into the, rather entrenched, video game console market.

No, "nothing stopping you from selling your own" would be a trivialization (because there are things). It's easy enough (~20 hours of effort, including research) to build a computer, install Linux, and start playing DRM free games. If you want to distribute it, that's another story.
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Before you give up, try living for others to ease their pain. Even simple things can help, such as holding a door open for people. Older people need a lot of help.

Your physical vehicle of consciousness gives you opportunities that you just can’t have if you’re not here. Are you sure that you’ve tried everything that you can and that every attempt has been perfectly executed with the necessarily correct attitude?
Funny?
I would describe it as tragic and scandalous.

It is also potentially subversive because of the consequent ability it gives intelligence agencies to suborn their political masters. For an existence proof, look at the troubles that the orange man is having with his intelligence agencies.

Even worse, it is already happening.

"Five Eyes act as a "supra-national intelligence organisation that doesn't answer to the known laws of its own countries". Documents leaked by in 2013 revealed that the Five Eyes have been spying on one another's citizens and sharing the collected information with each other in order to circumvent restrictive domestic regulations on surveillance of citizens."
Right, I wouldn’t argue that it’s “only” anything! Like any human issue, there are many complex factors, including the fact that some matches are better than others. But I think our culture over-emphasizes finding the perfect match and totally ignores the fact that given any two people, their chances of being happy together can dramatically increase if they spend time and effort learning.

The idea that you need to find the perfect match, be totally yourself all the time and spend no effort making compromises is toxic. You’ll never have those expectations met.
Your answer is contradictory: managers are not in any way multipliers, but they must be paid more because pyramid?

Also, your cynical view completely breaks down for knowledge work; you can't simply stand over a room of programmers cracking a whip and expect anything to improve. Maybe you've experienced that, but that's not what skilled managers in productive tech companies are paid to do.
> Javascript is a horrible languag

Thank you for putting that first so everyone can very quickly realize you have nothing to contribute to this discussion and very little knowledge in the first place.

It really moves things along quicker.
My background is strongly typed languages and I’ve been doing it for almost 30 years. I recently built an app in js/vue and I loved it. JS is incredibly powerful. I never really enjoyed writing a bunch of scaffolding anyhow.
Totally. I'm unsure, though, how much people have looked at regression in tropical geometry, though... There's likely not a whole lot of results to draw on. (Similarly, I looked real hard at hyperplane arrangements arising from relu activations at one point, and found the hyper plane arrangement literature to be pay much completely useless for statistical questions... Though it's still quite beautiful!)
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This applies so much for relationships.
> educational excellence often selects for agreeableness

Only to a limited degree. "The average relationship of academic performance with Conscientiousness (d = .46) can be seen as a medium-sized effect, the relationships with Agreeableness (d = .14) and Openness (d = .24) as small effects, and the relationships with Emotional Stability and Extraversion as relatively minor" [1].

Moreover, given "correlations with Agreeableness were least affected by controlling for intelligence" (page 26) and "increasing age was associated with declining correlations with Agreeableness" (page 29), one could argue that better-educated individuals will be more Agreeable (per the Big Five model [2]) solely due to being older.

More likely is interview performance, as "Agreeableness, Conscientiousness and Emotional Stability are all associated with social desirability (Digman, 1997), which has also been shown to affect performance ratings (Murphy & Cleveland, 1995)" (page 36).

[1] https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/bitstream/handle... page 22

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits
Read this comment, then checked my clock. It was 11:11. This will be a lucky day.
> plan to avoid hunger

Isn't this the most natural feeling in all animals. It is ok to be hungry, most people all over the world don't think of hunger as a feeling to be avoided at all costs.

Being hungry is ok.
Bitcoin and other crypto currencies are not a store of value. They are a store of hype and momentum. Right now they have none, hence the steady decline.
> Taking a break from sitting at the desk and going for a walk

I cannot stress this enough. Being cooped up for long periods of time is very detrimental to tasks that must be carried out “in the head.”

And yet, I was confined to a small room for most of my childhood and I feel I managed to be more creative then than I am now, when I have the freedom to travel the world. I wouldn’t want to go back to staying inside a room most of the time though.