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Throughout my career I've always loved drinking with the older (45-50+) engineers. Lots of great war stories and unfiltered bits of context and history around why things are the way they are.

I'm going to be that old engineer sooner rather than later. So yea, I agree... let's keep that going.
A good way to age-proof yourself is to start your own business.

In the dozen years I've been running my SaaS products, despite being Old during that entire timespan, nobody has ever so much as asked me my age. Let alone discriminated against me because of it.

And I've been "Consulting While Over 30" for nearly 20 years now for individual clients. None of which have ever held my lack-of-inexperience against me.

Granted, I've done fine during my occasional forays back into traditional-ish employment with respect to the whole "ageism in tech/you're never gonna work again" thing. But if that ever did start to happen, I wouldn't worry about it happening so much to the entrepreneurial side of my world.
WhatsApp used to work and be profitable for Ç99 a year.
A much more rigorous analysis was done for the Shuttle program, and the estimate of the risk of vehicle loss turned out to be very close to reality.

There was some coverage of the relatively high risk values in the popular science press well before Challenger happened.
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A good mix of both touchscreens and physical mobs and buttons seems preferable. Similar to how the Apple Watch is designed.
Don't use the cellphone.

Because anything involve the cellphone is technically stupid.
On the other hand, many MFDs in recent plane cockpits, including military ones, were replaced or at least augmented with touch screens. That's probably not just a fashionable trend, since the avionics and particularily instrument displays are subject to much higher scrutiny than car entertainment systems, and must work and be accessible in much harsher conditions.

That said, I'd love to see some serious research on this topic.
There are also studies that say the same thing about Oreos
None for me, please:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130808111450/http://ryanfunduk...
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I find your comment to be much like politics here. Presenting a false dichotomy. People who are obsessed over optimization vs. people who aren't. People who would prefer writing "clever well written and commented imperative code" vs. "clear concise functional code".

The truth is, you have at least three distinctive groups on the performance spectrum: people who are obsessed, people who treat it as one of the things to prioritize, and people who never do it (and tell you it's never the time to do it). The truth is, a lot of performance problems come from imperative code, and functional doesn't mean slow if you know what you're doing. The truth is, most big performance issues can be solved by not doing stupid shit and taking an occasional look at the resource usage. The former requires a little knowledge of how computers and your tools work. The latter requires care about end users, which seems to be in short supply.
Delphi?
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Url changed from https://gizmodo.com/uganda-goes-through-with-social-media-ta..., which points to this.
out of curiosity, with regards to rising GMAT scores, does that really reflect that 'our student are even more capable'? The scores supposedly correspond to a percentage of the test taking population one scored higher than, right?
So, how is it that in 2005-2010, the reported avg HBS score was a 710, and now it is much higher? Because this goes for all the top 5 (if not top 10 or 20). If a 720 then corresponded to doing better than 96% of the test taking population, where did all these other top 4% of test takers world wide come from in the last 10 years?
Your last line is the single point of failure for this whole issue.

The various systems, incentives, lies - ALL, arise from the growth paradigm.

That paradigm depends on more cheap, energetic fresh meat arriving out of college/recruiters every year.

Fresh grads cost less, have relatively more energy, fewer ties, and probably better cognition responses.

They lack experience, but that's a solvable problem.

The question to ask is this: Why WONT there be work place discrimination, when younger, cheaper candidates show up every day?

System incentives are not in favor of growing old in tech.

And whats laughably worse about this is that humans are TERRIBLE at making out correlation from causation:

people will eventually associate youth with tech work, so an OLD person doing tech - will be tagged as an outlier and assessed on that.

(And Firms would NEVER admit that its just easier for them to ignore work place equality issues in favor of "fit" and "cultural match")
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>Why?
>What are you waiting for?

If Github was made with micro services architecture, it could be split into open source "Client side + Test-backend" and closed sourced "Production-backend". Backend can be composed of some interface and multiple implementation such as test impl and prod impl. “the secret sauce” could be the "Production-backend" and MS have good in-house talents who operates Azure so no need for the help from OSS community to improve backend.

However for example +1 button took so long time to be implemented even though it seems like small change in client side code and some adjustments in database. That itch lead to the https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github open letter and signers listed here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oGsg02jS-PnlIMJ3OlWI...

The last sentence of the open letter says: "Hopefully none of these are a surprise to you as we’ve told you them before. We’ve waited years now for progress on any of them. If GitHub were open source itself, we would be implementing these things ourselves as a community—we’re very good at that!"

I think that's OSS community want, including but not only I want.
Uganda would be considered within the Anglosphere but not "core Anglosphere". It may not of been the most common use of the word before but Breixteers are trying to convince people that these countries will replace the trade they are stopping with the rest of Europe so will take as many as they can.
I not sure if follow but you mention that the general public is happy and that is surely the issue. If the populous were made aware of the implications of what they agree to on most of these sites/messaging services, owned and controlled by "elites", there would be action. It's difficult to explain to people so that they are convinced. The general assumption is that if it is as bad as is being reported it would not of been allowed in the first place.
If all you want to read is tech stuff, HN is a great replacement. If you participate in any of the smaller or narrow focus subreddits then there's no place on HN for that.

In my case that's mainly game-specific subs, and places like /r/paintball.
Here you go: http://archive.is/CZFiG
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> "fractional reserve banking" would be the case if Coinbase lends more than it holds in their accounts. That's impossible with bitcoins.

That is definitely not impossible. Let's go through this step by step:

I start by depositing one bitcoin to coinbase and agree that coinbase is allowed to lend that forward, but will give me back one bitcoin whenever I request so. Coinbase promptly lends the bitcoin to you.

You, then, go ahead and buy stuff from me with the bitcoin, and I go back to Coinbase and make a second deposit. At this point Coinbase owes me two bitcoins. Then you need another loan, call again to Coinbase and borrow another bitcoin. Now Coinbase has lent you total of two bitcoins even if there is only one existing in the whole fictional universe.

Now, you can see a couple of interesting further observations from here:

First one is that quite soon people and coinbase figure out that it is very cumbersome to move actual bitcoins around, and it would be much more efficient if instead of me requesting one bitcoin back to now make an purchase from coffee shop, I just ask that Coinbase owe me one bitcoin less and the coffee shop owner one coin more.

The second one is that after this, the coinbase deposits are equivalent to bitcoin as money in economy. For the coffee shop owner it is irrelevant whether I pay with bitcoin or a coinbase dposit, the economical value is identical. What this then means is that the money supply of bitcoin economy is not fixed as bitcoin people expect, but the coinbases of bitcoin economy will create a chaotic supply of bitcoin money. Whic, of course, will cause bitcoin value to fluctuate chaotically to the end of the days. Finally, there exists no institution, mechanism or whatever in bitcoin to stop this development. Nobody is able to prohibit fractional reserve banking and nobody is able to stop money creation in bitcoin economy.

Sorry, but to me, bitcoin is destined to fail as a money.
Why also explains why "World Changing" investors are investing in "meme chats" and "gif keyboards".

Gavin Belson is not a fictitious character; he is literally the snapshot of a typical investor.
Phabricator is decent in many ways, but it's terrible at handling patch series. Most people don't seem to be aware of the feature at all, and it's not integrated at all into tools like arcanist.
The whole thing is so absurd it seems beyond explanation. The concept that there exists a subset of gifted, "high-achieving" 4 year olds is so ridiculous on the face of it I wouldn't even know how to dissuade someone who thought their little munchkin was part of such a 4 year old elect. Maybe the toddlers should be awarded Nobel and Pulitzer prizes for their high achieving finger paintings and playdough sculptures, alongside the more typical gold stars.
I think there's a very simple explanation for this.

In past times universities were very elite educational institutions that few attended. Today college is seen as basically high school 2.0. There's a lot of numbers in this [1] report from the census. [1] Today 33% of Americans have a bachelor's or higher degree, and 12% have a masters or doctorate. Those numbers also continue to skyrocket. In 1970 only about 10% of people had any degree and advanced degrees were a rare sight indeed. In other words we have more people with masters or better than had any degree in the 70s.

The explosive normalization of post-secondary school education has turned into a massive industry. College is now a half a trillion dollar industry per year, and rapidly growing. This has shifted students from being trialing and exceptional aspirants to... customers. And there is immense pressure to keep these customers happy. For instance many universities rely on student evaluations to measure teachers, yet those evaluations often work as a strong proxy to difficulty which works as a strong proxy to grades. You can see this connection in crystal clear fashion on any of the countless 'rate my professor' type sites.

[1] - https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
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Because older people have lives, children and more - coming in over the weekend is not an option.

Spending extra time to "Show you love your work" is not something they care about.

On the other hand that is something most American Techies in SV firms or on HN already are part of.

Just sitting here on HN for so many years I know what it takes to look like an up and coming coder - and that is to breathe and live code.

Weekend projects on XYZ project. Work efficiency on ABC tasks.

Plus older people are not going to accept the usual promises of riches at the end of the rainbow, so may usually ask for better deals.

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I think people are too quick to run from here to blame -

Instead this is a systems/people problem.

Theres certain cultural expectations of work culture in tech. There are also unending flows of graduates to tech.

While this remains, this problem will continue. Firms are responding to the resources at their disposal and optimizing

Should some magic new industry arise, which absorbs all the smartest minds in the world - you will see tech change.
I've found that GPA is completely irrelevant in the private sector but the school you attended still makes a big difference, particularly if it's in the very top tier.

Some companies will not even consider engineering candidates who did not come from a narrow list of schools (Ivies and similarly prestigious institutions). I know for a fact that Oracle has such a list along with several major finance companies.
The main problem with HTML email is that it breaks interleaved responses ("bottom posting").

Bottom posting is so useful that even Outlook users reinvent it, badly of course, using different text colours etc.

It's been decades now, why have none of the advocates of HTML emails fixed this really basic problem?
VB 6 projects
I still love VB 6, even though I work on latest technologies.

https://notesformsc.org/examples/vb-6-examples/
Facebook's mobile site pushes "Facebook Lite" so much, there's no way I'm installing it. It clearly has more tracking built in than they can do with the website.
No, I also mean the kernel design.

We don't need yet another UNIX kernel clone written in C, replicating POSIX APIs.

Modern OSes should explore safer architecture models with modern programming languages, not replicate 70's designs from AT&T world.
This just isn't possible. No company in their right mind would take their monolith and rewrite a bunch of stuff just to please a couple randoms on the internet.

I think you're drastically underestimating the amount of code Github is powered by and how freaking long any type of refactor/rewrite would take. We're talking about years.
It does, I can afford about 300-350k, which buys me a postage stamp size condo.

I'm 35, the nearest house I can afford is about 30-40 miles away - I cant touch something for less than 500k, in that radius.
You would have seen that stat about Australians spending more time on Reddit than Facebook or Porn recently, right? That's why /r/Australia is bad now - it went and got popular.

This cycle of social networks starting lesser known but higher quality and ending popular but rubbish is inevitable because the bottom 25% of users have far more capability to drag a social network into the dirt than the top 25% could ever drag it back up.
IME when people don't know how sql queries work and how network latency works caching tends to just move the problem, not solve it. Instead of n+1 database queries you end up with n+1 cache queries. I deal with this death by a thousand cuts daily at the moment.

Every tiny bit of data was being loaded as needed, often from EAV tables. Obviously this sucked or performance so we ended up with an elaborate memory cache that is effectively it's own DBMS which uses a real database as a backing store. This didn't really solve the performance issues though because Hash maps might be fast but they are still far from free and doing 10's of thousands at a time is still quite slow.

Fast forward a decade and we have caches in front of caches in front of caches in front of our database instead of just loading courser chunks of data at once.
Came to comment on exactly this.

I used to click _CONTINUE_ because I'd already gone to the mobile site and just wanted to close the #$@%!$* pop-up. And would be taken to Play Store.

But as you point out, "take me to the mobile site" isn't actually a proper link. It makes me think I'll lose my current page, when I'm in fact already here. This is what should be named Continue, and the other should be "Get The Reddit App". Bastards.
Would you be willing to share your bookmarks?
Accents would be an issue for some, especially those who live in the other part of the world. Choices among accent depending on the region of the world would be useful.
I was working on an app which serves roughly 400*10^6 API requests/day.

One cool property of our app is that it's rarely updated and mostly read.

And the goal is to achieve the lowest possible latency at the edge.

It scales beautiful, I am not sure which other architecture can help us keep this afloat with only 4 developers working on it.

So, we have a DynamoDB table which is replicated to multiple regions using DynamoDB streams and Lambda.

For us, Lambda means achieving a lot without many developers and system administrators but I understand that not all problems yield gracefully to this pattern.

It seems using Cloudflare Workers to trigger our Lambda function instead of API gateway could prove to be cheaper.
I wonder how these W10 auto-install software.

My W10 Pro copies surely don't.
Samsung is not a third party on a phone and OS developed by Samsung, it's more of an OEM.
Oh, was Github monolith? I did not read any articles about their architecture so I assumed that Github could be composed by micro services, and in that case, splitting could go easier. I edited to "If Github was made with micro services architecture,..."

Does anyone have link to any interview or article talking about granularity of their architecture?
If you make a web site, don't make a SPA. The a in spa stands for application.
Its not just Google, Microsoft Office 365 also supports the use of Oauth tokens to read email.
In general, "need to be segmented for transport" is not necessarily a political thing. Russians have the Proton rocket which looks as if it had boosters bolted to it, where in fact those are parts of the first stage. I heard recently that the reason for this design is precisely because if those side parts were internal, the rocket wouldn't fit on a railcar.
Because in the current market you can get yourself a better lifestyle burning through VC cash than by trying to get that cash from the paying customers.
>There is no such thing as free speech in an era of weaponised media. The principle has become a nonsense.

You're aware the 20th centuries relative journalistic neutrality is a historical aberration, right?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/frondeurs-and-...

https://theconversation.com/techniques-of-19th-century-fake-...
Who uses linked lists? Outside of niche algorithms that splice lots of lists together there are practically zero occasions where linked lists beat dynamic arrays.
While there are many books out there with excellent and relevant knowledge for the founding CEO...

I'd love to know some of your's book suggestions for aspiring Tech Founder-CEO.
I think the parent was using it as an example of a simple invention that builds upon many complex discoveries that came before, not as an example of a complex invention itself.
Definitely! I should have started earlier in regard to training my mind to focus. Being in college, it seems I don't have the upper hand because so. It's all good though - I sort of argue that taking psycho-stimulants means you are entangled in that toxic cultural thinking of always going and being in the noise. I suppose then there's something sweet about failing a course without using psycho-stimulants.
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That's actually the most encouraging comment about haskell i read in a while.
Software Engineer: After a week of hard work, I halved the runtime of our program for all possible inputs!

Computer Scientist: That's too bad. All that work and nothing to show for it.
And what brilliant things were you saying in 2007?

If Zuck had said “whites are just smarter” or “men are just smarter” he would not have gotten away with it then and it would not be forgotten or forgiven now.

It’s a valid point because it illustrates ageism is considered acceptable even today.
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This is why I still use a third party Twitter client (Talon in my case) - it never added any of that stuff, still shows just the timeline.
We have a winner.

And even if you fail you write some blog posts, do the speaking circuit and end up with another high paying role in a startup, VC or a services company (Government, Co-working space, law firm...)
> If we don't care about randomness, can't the judge just use the strategy of Always pick Wednesday?

The point is that because the process is underspecified the prisoner is using one interpretation while the judge is using another. (Otherwise the judge would have had to conclude that no choice could be made.) The reader switches between the two specs in an apparent paradox without considering that they are two different specs.

For example, the judge could simply be breaking the rule by considering Friday as a possible choice. That is a different spec from the prisoner, and if such a judge ended up settling on Wednesday then the prisoner would be surprised.

But here's another angle. If the prisoner logically concluded that the judge cannot pick any weekday, the judge can pick Friday and still satisfy the requirement that the prisoner be surprised.

I think that's cheating, though, and the important part is the underspecification.
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The sad part is that the only reason people use Medium in the first place is because it started out as a place where you could guarantee the content would be readable and relatively nicely presented...
> The closest way I can put it to a human is... imagine thinking you're about to bite into an apple and then being yanked, naked, into outer space by a metal hook through your face.

That's nonsensical, really. It's not equivalent.

Fish don't wear clothes and they don't think the same way humans do. So they're not thinking, "Yikes, I was about to eat - while naked oddly enough - but now I'm being yanked into space".

Also hooks don't damage a fish mouth like it would a human mouth. Fish don't even bleed from getting caught, usually. That's how different it is. There are exceptions of course, they can get damaged or even killed with an unlucky hook, but in the case of a human it'd be exceptional if they didn't incur significant damage (both physically and mentally). So trying to say the experience would be that similar is pretty silly.

> It's significantly more cruel than instantly ending the life of a cow or chicken, even if you catch and release.

You mean the cows and chickens that often live their entire lives inside buildings squished together, in cages, standing in their waste, pumped up with drugs, etc?

I'd say that's much more cruel. I'd rather be a fish than a cow or chicken.
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I just see on the front page a weird submission. "Agen Poker Online Uang Asli Terbaik Dan Terpercaya" to http://asiapoker303.asia/

It has been flaggued and remove.

More information on this, there is a lot of these?
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ZQ is another one. Like ZZ, but doesn't save. I mainly use ZZ and ZQ to quit.
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