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I do know people who make do with satellite or wireless hotspots but it's obviously not ideal. Of course, you don't need to be in the back of beyond to have Internet access issues. My Xfinity has been acting flaky of late--though not clearly bad enough to deal with customer service hell--and Verizon FIOS isn't available at my house. I'm not in a city but I'm adjacent to a small one and only about an hour from a major metropolis.
Nicely done. I envy your etched windows.

I've long fantasized about using penrose tiling for my bathroom. Alas, my craftsmanship is terrible and I can barely manage subway style tiling.

I think someones could make some side money doing these one-offs for local builders, remodelers. Every service bureau I've ever met with their own laser (CNC, 3D printer) has spare capacity.

I've also long wanted to have client-side procedurally generated backgrounds for web pages, and user interfaces in general. Wood grain, marbling, penrose tiling, fractals... I got something kinda working using applets with Sun's HotJava browser, once upon a time.

I just saw that CSS now has a paint image hook. Made me think it's time to rescratch that itch. Unless someone beats me to it... :)
>whereas European countries and Japan take a much more pragmatic approach.

Whether or not a tendency to centralize more of their planning/decision making relative to the US counts as "pragmatic" is something many people (myself included) would take issue with. I think the most local level of government capable of dealing with an issue should be the one that deals with the issue.
"greatly limits density"
"strangles redevelopment"
"keeps neighborhoods in formaldehyde"

This article sounds somewhat socialist and left leaning and assumes that such a
"Japanese system" is what most families actually want.

If you have a house in a typical middle class neighborhood, practically speaking you don't want neighborhood to densify too much. With higher density comes a lot more people living in the same street as you, and with that comes noise, more traffic and less personal space which can have negative psychological impacts on some people.

It also comes back to the arguments for an against planning and development of cities; just because there is an open area available, should we really develop everything? I realize that we live in a world with a booming population, but it doesn't mean that we should aim to fill every square meter on this planet with people.

Edited open space->personal space. Sorry guys.
It’s not a rumor. Apple announced they were doing just that at WWDC and they showed two or three apps ported from iOS to the next release of MacOS.
> HFT firms employ people, gives them jobs, purpose, and most importantly, a pay check. This in turn generates tax revenue for any government and society.

That's putting the cart before the horse. People get a sense of purpose and a paycheck from a job because jobs are generally providing value to society - the money ultimately comes from people who get value from what they do paying it. If the money is coming from a government regulation rather than because people actually want to buy what they're selling, it's a make-work scheme, not a business.

The sub-penny rule is, essentially, a tax on investors that is then handed to the winners of a mostly-meaningless competition. You could equally take the same tax on investors and hand the money to whoever dug the longest ditch (or whatever) and that would "employ people, gives them jobs, purpose, and most importantly, a pay check", but that wouldn't be contributing anything valuable to society either.
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This is a great example of why I have no interest in buying a house. Sure, you get an asset and a mortgage is probably cheaper then rent, but rent is ALL my expenditures on housing. Besides that, I just don’t think about any of that stuff.
For me --

0: Neuromancer, William Gibson

1: The Rust programming Language, Carol Nichols and Steve Klabnik

2: Getting Clojure, Russ Olsen

Interesting times indeed... :)
Among the people I've been working with this is a trend - especially once they have children and need some inexpensive real estate.

One extreme example: Our tech lead from two projects ago has four children and his wife is a homemaker so they're living exclusively off his salary.

One downside is employers are aware of the fact that the cost of living is lower in rural areas so wages for remote workers(at least where I live) are generally lower.
Honestly I think your definition of "pro" is far too narrow to be useful.

It's plainly obvious that not every professional user requires support for multi-gigabyte image files. I've never even used a workstation with 64GB of memory, despite being a professional Photoshop user for a long time.

Just a bit of a silly thing to complain about, really.
Speaking for myself, I'd love a small house with no parking and without a backyard. These houses are basically impossible to find because of zoning rules.
George Hotz is on a hacker crusade against the ‘scam’ of self-driving cars
Browsers don't have the power or the speed to run the most demanding loads that Photoshop require (especially without using more memory than needed)

At some point you really need to manipulate image data (from/to disk) in weird ways that's just not possible in a browser

Try opening a .jpg file that's bigger than available memory in PS and see how that goes (harder now as memory is not so constrained) as opposed to other softwares
Encodings are related to storage and transportation -- not business logic. You should not have to deal with encodings inside your application, so forcing programmers to deal with encodings at the point it matters, when text enters and exits the application, is thus sound.

If yoy truly don't care whether or not the text is decodable (which is sometimes the case), then don't read it as a string, read it as a byte array.

You can still have methods that are generic over byte arrays and text, since that is an orthogonal concern.
Live in rural West Georgia. Work in Alabama.
...i have a lot of advice and tricks. PM if you need help. It is very doable.
I live in Northern CA too, about 40 miles Easy of Sacramento. I live in Comcast's zone (so I get 100/5) but my friend .5 mile away only has DSL as an option. A lot of people around me have to use radio frequency internet or satellite. Before I even considered a house, I would first confirm with Comcast that they serviced that house. Double check though! We were in escrow for a different house before I realized Comcast had given me the wrong info the first time.
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> People are more rational when the cost to them of being irrational is larger.

Do you mean like buying a house they cannot afford for some ideal of home ownership? ;)
> It says "Muslim engineer", which would be like saying Steve Jobs was a "Christian Engineer".

I note that Ismail al-Jazari's wikipedia article [1] describes him as muslim, and also an engineer -- which appellation are you concerned about here?

I'm unsure how that compares to describing Steve Jobs as either christian or an engineer, though I'd be struggling to try to substantiate either descriptor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_al-Jazari
This is my situation. Worked in DC. Now I live in the Fingerlakes Region of NY and work remotely as a support engineer. I'll echo others points:

* If you _start_ remote, your salary will be lower for your area. Aim for a transition or a company with decent remote salaries

* If you lose your remote gig and have a mortgage, you could be in trouble. You can plan around this though.

* Internet required for remote work often requires a small village/community rather than complete country living

* There aren't many software engineer's to hang with in the country :P

* Remote work is harder than most think, you'll need to overhaul your habits / work environment

I fucking love it for the most part. Dog loves it even more. I don't go "out" much. But I enjoy camping, boating, hiking which are all nearby and free. My hour commute turned into reading/tinkering time. My cost of living was cut in half(at least). It's peaceful and I have more resources to focus on myself. Highly suggest it.
just get known_hosts and id_rsa
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That's a really specific case. But the idea that a heavily multicore device with gigabytes of RAM is suitable only for "occasional, amateur editing" is just laughable.
And Affinity apps are astonishingly good value for what they are.

Designer on iOS is currently £13, with no subscription.

Adobe should be worried. It’s the first real competition they’ve had in years, especially as their iOS apps are pretty much junk.
book recommendations on topics with lots of noise competition are really helpful, thanks
Value capture in science is a known hard problem. Snide comments suggesting that it is tractable do not make it so.
To change the name? :)
> How is tying your own learning to someone else's ability to find the best papers in any way a smart thing to do?

If they are supposed to be an expert in the field, that seems like a fair test.
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Just say no to salary adjustments. The point of remote is, it doesn't matter where you live. Resist letting it be their decision where your remote base is located.
Be prepared for the questions that you will be asked when the alarm is raised.

Q1. Why late? Work is 'outside of comfort zone', thus accurate estimates are impossible.

Q2. When will it be ready? Scope, timescale and quality are interdependent. Ask 'the business' which two are most important to them. The remaining item will need to be revised. My recommendation would be to curtail scope and deliver the rest in phase 2. If they say timescale can be extended the revise estimates based on current velocity, i.e. if you are 30% behind where you expected, add 30% to all outstanding work items. If quality is cut, make sure they are aware of the additional support and maintenance costs that will be incurred.

Either way, do as rinka_singh says and get the PO/PM to establish a risk log accessible to all. I would add that each risk should be assigned to someone who is responsible for tracking it. Review the log each week.

Raise the alarm now because there will be dependencies, and you are probably not aware of all of them.

I would not be worried about how the alarm is percieved, if your intentions are to steer 'the business' away from a cliff it will be recognized.
About half the space at Blockbuster was taken up by multiple copies of the same top five current hit movies. There really wasn't a lot of room for more obscure stuff. Especially since they shelved everything so you could see the face of the package. So you have a lot less space for stock on a shelf that way
It was an excellent book until the point you mention (the 2nd part which was about 3/4 into the book). My recommendation? Read the 1st part and skip the 2nd one.
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Nice comment, " the now classic texts in regression analysis start with something the machine learning curve fitting does not...". What classic texts would you recommend starting with?
Modern construction is reasonably sound proof so that you don't have to worry too much about your neighbors even if there is no yard separating you.
This analogy only works if you view the economics through the singular, zero-sum lens of Tesla. Imagine you have billions of dollars in big oil, or traditional auto manufacturing. If you can take a few percent of your net worth to establish a short position on Tesla, and in so doing create market weariness that could help bring down the company, then that would be a good investment for you overall even if you are unable to recover any of it (because your external holdings stand to benefit or be harmed accordingly). The fact that you stand to benefit directly on the short if you succeed is just icing on the cake.
This is an interesting question. And I’m a bit biased, but I’m doing both. So I’m working remote for a company on the other side of the world. And I live in Barcelona, in the middle of the hectic @22 area, (BCN Silicon Valley) it’s kind of a joke, but that’s fine.

But earlier this year we bought a rural house in south-east Sweden. A modest little countryside dwelling. Completely off-grid. Relying on solar/wind and Private well.

Our plan is to spend our years like this - 1/3 in Barcelona, 1/3 in the country side dwelling and 1/3 of the year traveling. When we are not occupying our apartment or house we are renting them out. So we are basically living for free and get our travel tickets paid for by the income generated from renting our apartment/house.

In Barcelona we have 1000/1000mbits fiber. And in Sweden funny enough we also have fiber but “only” 300/300mbits.

I’m not sure for me personally if living 100% country or city would be something I’d like to do. I love the seasonal changes. And the getaways. So being a remote worker makes that possibly in a way a normal fixed office position simply can’t do.

Also it’s insane what you can get for the same amount of money if you compare and odd city to the countryside. Quality of life really increases with the veriety. At least from my perspective.

Ping me on Twitter if you want to chat more about this in person. @linusekenstam
Sounds like a real charm. Congratulations to you. I envy the fresh produce.
I'm gonna guess Lehi?

I lived 17 years in Utah, and spent about 10 of that working remotely for a handful of very small clients (remote unix sysadmin). Spent some time in Delta, then moved to Vernon, then found my way back to SLC.

Unfortunately divorce threw a wrench into the works, so I moved out of state to an urban area and ended up back in the 9-to-5 grind. I've been desperate to get my freedom and quiet life back ever since.

Maybe some day...
Nice.

Another notion I had was cutting/forming/milling the ceramic before it's glazed and kiln fired.

If you did it in sheets, it might be practical.
You say you tried, but it sounds to me like you didn't try hard enough.

I'm a hobbyist photographer, and I do the vast majority of my photography work on a 9.7" iPad pro, with a Pencil. I'm constantly editing 24mp RAW files in Affinity Photo, which is about as close to full-fat Photoshop running on the iPad as you can possibly get, and let me tell you: It's fantastic.

I turn on my camera, I shoot some images. I open up Cascable, which connects to my camera's wifi, and I pull down some images. I flip through them and find one I like, the one I want to edit, so I click on that one and click "share", and then select Affinity Photo.

Affinity Photo opens. It's 95% of the power of desktop photoshop, albeit organised in subtly different ways. I do the things I would normally do: White balance, HSL, blemish touchup and even frequency separation. I click export, and save to camera roll.

It's in the camera roll, and I select it, and I share it over email to some friends, and to discord, and to instagram.

I don't get where the problem is.
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No, countryside seems like prison to me. You have to drive everywhere, you have to shop at the only one shop with limited choices. The isolation, etc.
Steve Jobs was a cultural engineer.
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But for what cost???

The price of upgradabilty is a heavier, thicker machine with probably less battery life (because they now squeeze the cells into every nook and cranny).

The ability to upgrade a machine is not a no-cost argument.

If given a blanket question of - ‘would you like to be able to upgrade your laptop?’ I’m sure the answer would be 100% Yes!

But, if you said ‘would you like to be able to upgrade your laptop but it will be half an inch thicker and a pound heavier?’ You’d get quite a different answer.
I think it mostly just reflects the age and histories of our cities, and the cultures that comes from that.
I am jealous tbh. I have isses with coil whine and audio interference (crackling/popping) in audio.
It's easier than it used to be (you can search job sites for remote and actually find jobs now!), but still harder than finding a normal job of course.

Also, there are sites like
https://www.remoteonly.org/
that list companies
OneNote has a similar drawing tool set. Paint3D's a bit different but is also close. The main draw of Whiteboard is the collaboration aspect.
Tangentially related, but I've had jobs in the past where I had to build all-too-complex systems in VBA because of the needs of the business and having my environment too restricted.

I realize this isn't ideal...ever...but sometimes the needs of our department--our immediate needs--didn't align with the time require to navigate the massive corporate and IT bureaucracy.
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More than concentric layers
I live in Connecticut 2.5 hours from Boston and NYC.

I've worked remote for the last 5 years.

I'm toying with the idea of starting a web series on tips and tricks of going remote while living in a non urban area, spreading the wealth and trying to spend locally.

Here is part 1:

https://russell.ballestrini.net/how-to-work-from-home-the-ro...

I'm an avid permaculturist and I grow some of my families food.
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> Do you not want a large, detached house?

No, because if everyone else had them too that'd mean living in a very low-density area, likely without anything in walking distance or decent public transport.
What kind of advantage would this kind of information give to competition? If anything, it shows they're serious about the product, trying new strategies and so on.
If people wanted it so much, counties wouldn’t have to make it illegal to build other kinds of housing through zoning laws.
It actually is possible with nVidia GPU-s, but you'll be taking a huge performance hit as some of the tiny bandwidth is now used to send the rendered image back to the laptop and then to the screen.
The Android high end tablet market is basically non existent.
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Continuing the hypothetical short conspiracy idea, would Big Carbon interest also be involved? How would they relate to the shorting activities?
Huh? In most suburbs this is the only type of housing being built. Go look at any new construction in San Jose etc, its all vertical townhouse stuff with one parking spot and communal green space.
> US system is quite rigid and micromanages how society builds.

This varies a ton from city to city. My general perception is that the cities/towns that tend to be more likely to praise European ways of doing zoning/development are more rigid ones when it comes to zoning so it's much harder to actually do mixed development in those places because of all the boxes checked and signatures required to do it and comply with local regulation. I find this contradiction somewhat comical.
What do you mean “say no”?
Density doesn't mean that there are no open spaces left. On the contrary. If you build denser you have more room to spare. I'd much rather have a couple of large parks and urban forests like for example here in Berlin instead of a few hundred square meters of yards and garages around each house that nobody but the owners can use.
Why is everyone expressing so much restraint? It is insanely difficult to get your entrepreneurial projects funded. This guy needs to get a lawyer!
This is not even true in the classical JavaScript world. A 10 year old tiling image viewer (think of any map viewer) proves the opposite.

Given we have WebAssembly and friends nowadays, you can think of the browser as a X86 VM host if you whish, with similar limitations (= no relevant limitations for running PS).
Do you have in mind a large, detached house and a long commute, or just a large, detached house? The answer you get always depends on the question you ask.

Me, I'd love to have a large, centrally located, detached house at an affordable price. It's not a realistic desire though, and that lack of realism means that any policy based on it will be equally unrealistic.
Apple is introducing some advanced automation features with iOS 12 that may go a long way toward making that easier.
I didn't quite make this jump, but did switch to a remote role at my startup so I could move from a big city to a relatively smaller city (Pittsburgh). So far I have been really happy with the move, mainly because housing in the major cities is insanely expensive.
That's an inaccurate characterization.

The Federal government has a minimal direct impact on civil administration in populated areas and always has. Land use, code enforcement, permitting, police and similar functions are all state responsibilities that are delegated to varying degrees to county or municipal government.

US States are also nominally sovereign. It's less philosophy and more legal.
I will leave Lightroom and and InDesign the moment Affinity releases their equivalents. No, I don't care about hundreds of existing LR presets, I'll do everything to free myself from Adobe's arrogant lock-in.
was worried as i misread the title
Perhaps this is because most suburbs are not in the Bay Area?
In the Netherland you can definitly have such a house at a reasonable price, 25km+ outside of cities.

You can also choose a smaller, non-detached house for the same prices inside a denser neighborhood. You then don't need a car and can bike or take publish transport to everything.

Most people prefer the latter.
> I see something dramatic happening in the next 15 years as wages stagnate, inflation rises and wealth is concentrated in the top .1% of the worlds population.

I'm really not trying to be on the attack here, but this kind of vague melodrama is pervasive on the internet and is really exhausting.
> so we try to pay what the work is worth to the company

As in you pay a percentage of the revenue that person generates? How do you work that out per person? Or is it aggregated over all developers? What do you do to determine the worth of cost-centre work like support?

Do you find paying based on worth to the company is massively different to the market rates?

How do you work out the worth of work that isn’t generating revenue yet but might in the future or might never, like research?
Another vote for Vernor Vinge here - Loved a Deepness in the Sky and A Fire Upon the Deep. Lately it has taken me AGES to get through any fiction, but I read both of them in short order - really compelling SciFi with interesting ideas, and presented in a great way (where you often don't know the details of the protagonists and assume they are human initially until details progressively inform you otherwise).
Google translates "The IT group" to French as "Le groupe IL". Context matters.
I'd love to see comparisons between Manhatten and New York, or central Kyoto and Kyoto proper, as well as other old Asian capitals that were often based on a grid system, but might not have kept it outside "the old city"
Very much depends on your landlord, or you get into a situation where not only is the plumbing broken but you've got to wait for someone flakey to organise its repair.
Built my flat mate a new computer last year for photoshop work. His files are huge. Full spec iMac at the time lagged like there’s no tomorrow. After building new pc and putting 64gb of ram, allocate enough to photoshop and opened up a 1gb psd which used to take over a minute to load. Was loaded in a few seconds and buttery smooth. Photoshop loves a good ssd and ram.
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