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Ask HN: How do I appear more senior in a field dominated by older professionals
I am 30 years old working in a field where I am consulting for a SaaS product that is used heavily by Fortune 500 companies.

In my current company, I am the youngest engineer but have a title of senior engineer because of my technical chops.

I made the mistake of recommending process improvements early on when I joined; however, because my recommendations weren't implemented, it created scenarios where engineers had to email code to each other to track changes.

I recently applied and interviewed for another job and the feedback I was given was that the people that I interviewed with liked me but felt like they would want to add another engineer that was more "senior" than me so that they would have a go to person for the product that I consult for.

I feel as though I should make a career change but I want to make improve how people use the SaaS product and try to introduce new ways to automate and add more value for customers that use this product.

My greatest strength is that I can learn new technology very easily and that I try to follow industry best practices where I can.

I know that I want a change, but not sure if it's better to start over or do something new; has anyone else faced this situation before?
Weekend plans? Prime Day is going to be over in the early part of the week.

Does Amazon expect a fix to be deployed ASAP after the immediate crisis is averted?
I think the word "acquihire" would explain a lot.
People aren't monoliths. Instead of getting all het up about the pieces they are doing wrong, it helps to engage the pieces they are doing right and encourage more of that while occasionally raising an eyebrow at the more questionable stuff.

Of course, this works best over time, assumes that it isn't a downright abusive situation where you can't really afford to not take a stand, etc.
> everything else is mostly UI bling and attempted vendor lock.

Well that's a ridiculous generalization to make. There are many solid distros that are none of that (e.g. Gentoo, Arch/Parabola, Debian, LFS, just to name a handful)
This is the same one (unless I missed a different one)
I used to do that, and got tinnitus. Now, I try to keep the volume pretty low
Uber’s head of policy for autonomous vehicles leaves for startup Voyage
i use self control app and https://www.noisli.com/
Hmmm maybe try living more years??
It’s easy for me to imagine. All attention is on the Model 3. You see a figure like “3,500 cars/week” and it’s easy to assume that’s everything they’re making, and forget they have two other models. Of course, this becomes less believable if it persists after correction....
There is in the linked source material though. Not by name, but what other [GUN RIGHTS ORGANISATION] could possibly be described as "largest sponsor of elections to the US congress, as well as sponsor of the CPAC conference"?
Most of them are pretty tame but that's the point. It's something with a slight slant to get people to engage then it's all about slowly isolating them and luring them a bit farther down the rabbit hole with crazier and crazier shared posts.

It'd be hard to recruit for a cult that starts with poison kool aid on day one.
As animalMuppet said, if you’re not providing a “basic income” level to nearly everyone, your experiment is invalid.

I also think UBI would simply cause massive inflation to the point where $X/month was no longer a sufficient “basic income”. It would turn into a subsidy for landlords, grocery stores, and predatory lenders at the very least.
I used to have to move around a radioactive instrument for work[1]. It was in a big orange box with nuclear stickers all over it. Not very subtle.

Though I remember having to get a permit from the nuclear regulatory commission to transfer it off site. It always had to be locked up or under your control. It didn't have much radioactive material, but some.

It radiated enough that when someone stored their radiation badge in the box, they were very very worried about him when the badge was read..

[1] http://www.troxlerlabs.com/Products/Catalog/catid/1
For a professional, that's a few days of work.

Nice stealth brag (:

I'm an intermediate dev in a first world country with a salary that locals would call good. That's over a months work for me.
LIDL cancels SAP project after spending €500M
This strikes me as more noise to add to the cacophony of nonsense that most Americans experience online. Please someone explain to me why these blurbs are somehow more signal than background noise.
#tinfoilhat
"For some reason, people have no problem grabbing their baby and hopping on a plane"

Well, this is quite different. Most probably those people drive to the airport or use taxi/uber. Then, upon arrival to the airport they get rid of their luggage - they put the luggage into neat windows and then other people take care of it for them. What they keep around is just most necessary stuff for several hours.

I can't imagine how anything like that would makes sense to be implemented for suburban travel. With suburban travel you can't also have direct roots, it simply not possible to link every destination with every destination so you will have to do multiple changes.

For example, I live in Australia in Sydney suburb - Cronulla. Should I want to travel to Blue Mountains for weekend with my family (110k) using public transit I would need to do something like that:

- Hope on bus, get to the train station.
- Hope on train get to the city central railway station.
- Change trains to the one that goest to the Blue Mountains
- Get off the train
- Get on a bus that would bring you close enough to the hotel.

Now all this happens while I manually handle luggage for my wife, myself and all the stuff that is necessary for couple toddlers for 2 days.

It will take about 6 hours in total, one way. Then repeat it backwards.

You do such a trip once and you say - no more.

I can drive there on my Getz under 2 hours with all the stuff neatly packed in the trunk.

I tell what would fix the whole mess. A fleet of electric easy to rent cars of 4 seaters and 7 seaters (large and small families). Something that would come to you house (autopilot FTW), drive you (or you drive it) to the destination and then return to the pool. You might say - Uber but it's not the same, the driver required is the most expensive part. In Australia you can have GoGet but it is not the same again - it doesn't return to the pool when you don't need it anymore and it will sit there for the whole weekend with no use.
That depends on the distance -- it won't work for coworkers very close to you, but anyone more than a few meters (depending on volume) will be removed.

Though keep in mind that they remove noise, so things like fans are going to be gone, but they aren't made to shut everything out.
Morphos 3.11 run on Qemu 3.0 host threadripper 1950x
I think he/she meant a total of 500k/600k, in cases where both people in the couple earn a 250k/300k annual salary.
lol. Seriously?
I seriously doubt OpenERP has the same scope as SAP. It works for smaller structures but, like mentioned before, if your operations cross too many national borders, things get insanely complicated really quickly.
Both the Prop 26 levy/fee supermajority and the pre-existing one for taxes can be bypassed by going straight to the voters, which Brown did for tax increases. The budget was the one thing where the supermajority requirement had no practical safety valve.
My altruism was eroded by life experience. I can't quite bring myself to actively screw others over, but I'm definitely not the 'good person' I once was.

Maybe true altruists are more resilient - but they're also much more susceptible to abuse.
Why Walking Through a Doorway Makes You Forget (2011)
Wow, surprised to see this genre here, I listed to Goa Trance/Psy Trance music when trying to focus at work.
This is their official rate limit for the FIFO type SQS. Although I bet the Amazon folks know a couple people around the office who can up that limit :)
When Oracle is your alternative, SAP suddenly looks better.
Twitter had dinner at the SF office but they discontinued it after they realized that the amount of people that used it didn't justify the cost of operating the kitchen that late. They replaced it with a take-out option, prepared by the kitchen. I really like this since it still allows a useful perk but gives people the option of where/how the take advantage of it.

Edit: it's not free but highly subsidized.
really nice. I think you have a pretty good mvp there
Oh. I don't disagree. I think it's hard to give up the mothership vs. satellite mentality. I work for a company that had two major locations fairly early on (not including SV) for historical reasons and that's doubtless one of the factors that's made it easier to be pretty distributed as time's gone on.
One piece of fun trivia, Patrick works for iXsystems so Slackware and FreeBSD are happy siblings.
Found some info on the 'fabricated metric'. Btw, worth pointing out that fabricating metrics is faking data, not coming up with a metric...all metrics by your definition are fabricated.

http://berc.berkeley.edu/ranking-global-warming-contribution...

Here is a link to the most relevant part: http://cdn1.spiegel.de/images/image-590398-galleryV9-dikr.jp...
My thoughts on this having worked in a team doing an ERP (think SAP lite) and now working in a sap shop (my job often involves avoiding interacting with SAP to the maximum extent possible):

ERPs are hard. ERPs are not software for modelling business processes, they are software for creating software that models business processes. And at the next layer you have all of the shortcuts that the vendor and the customer took during getting something that works out the door. Which happens a lot, at both levels. This is of course a recipe for fun interesting times with lots of billable hours.
How come it doesn't raise the question of "why doesn't Canada?"
Probably too many low-ticket operations to move stock, which is critical for keeping your margins low in grocery stores.
Eh, I really depends. I think softphones are great if you use the phone infrequently, or if you use the phone so often that you always have a headset on. If you use the phone a several times a day for really short periods using a softphone is a pain.

That's not even taking the average age of the employee into account. I worked at a place where the average employee was probably 45 or so.
True, but it's like saying that MS-DOS doesn't need an upgrade because it allows the average human to work more efficiently than ever before.
Agree, with the city watch arc as the discworld introduction. I'd even go so far as to say start with nightwatch and then go back to the beginning.
Honest question: what stores have this quality? I find that other than local or high-end/"boutique" stores (with much higher prices), I do not have the same experience.
Ozric Tentacles. Psychedelic Space Rock. Maybe two songs with lyrics in 30 years of albums.
high-turnover is a commonwealthism, not necessarily a bad translation.
At my current work my main distraction is in my peripheral vision as I can see every move made by co-workers either side of me.
I'm seriously considering buying sunglasses with side shields or some type of goggle, similar to a race horse.
In the spirit of Cato the Elder, Open Offices must be destroyed!
Show HN: OpenAI's Cartpole Can Be Optimally Solved in ~10 Random Initializations
There are attempts with some serverside voodoo, but it doesn't look like it's possible.
How did you get where you are?
I’d like to get a collection of the following things from the programmers who come on here:

Your subjective experience coding and your story- How long have you been coding? How difficult has it been? Are you noticeably quicker/slower or less/more skilled than your peers? How hard did you have to work and study to get where you’ve gotten? What were the roadblocks? Do you have any lessons and advice for people considering becoming a programmer or struggling? Are you happy with where your at? Would you do it again?

Occupational and educational outcome- Which company do you work for? What position do you have? How complex and challenging is the work? How much do you make? If you’re not working or just starting - What school do you go to? What’s your GPA? What projects have you done? Which internships? How has the technical interview process been for you? Finally, if you were on either of those paths and then changed direction, why?

IQ – If you’ve taken a real IQ test under the supervision of a psychologist only. Please, don’t post if you’ve never taken a real IQ test, are not willing to share your score or want to debate the value of IQ.

The IQ data point is why I feel the need to make this thread rather than just googling and reading the plethora of blogs or threads which already share the first two points. I’ve almost never seen or heard someone mention alongside their story and achievements any objective information about their natural abilities. The objective part is key as you can still have struggled and discredit the role of your natural abilities despite being a genuine genius. I believe this information is critical to being able to interpret any story of this sort correctly.
If prices continue to rise, they will put even more pressure on couples to leave SFBA once they retire and don't need to be within commuting distance of the major tech companies. It could become extremely rare to see any retirees at all in the area, which could have downstream affects on where their kids and other relatives move or stay.
You’re right :/ same one ... got intrigued by the different sounding title
And noone was shocked
Legit point. In the summer I do on sunny days. I live near Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada where it doesn't make sense/isn't possible in the winter.
It really depends on your scale. If you replace a thousand people who earn a thousand more than their replacements, you made a million right there.
You can't just sum up the huge variety of programs that was the New Deal like that. Yes, the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) probably did halt the existing recovery but it was a recovery that FDR had started by reversing the hard money policies of his predecessors. And you can certainly argue all day about whether stuff like FDIC was a net improvement if you want to but that didn't really affect the length of the Great Depression.

We actually have a pretty good idea of what worked and what didn't during the Great Depression and mainstream economic historians[1] seem to have reached a rough consensus.

In school, though, we teach the Great Depression through the lens of political history. So for that purpose it doesn't matter what was really causing it, just what people at the time thought was causing it.

[1] I'm excluding Marxists, Austrians, MMTers, etc here.
Ask HN: How do sane US citizens cope with Donald Trump?
As a european, I am bombarded with the stupidities of the POTUS daily in the news. It makes me sick and terrified to see him officially "making friends" with the likes of Vlad P without getting any admissions on the big topics like annectation of Crimea, the Syrian civil war or election manipulation, while pushing old allies away over comparingly small issues like NATO contributions and trading agreements.

I understand that it goes well in line with his "America first - let the others drown" strategy. That is, the syrian civil war, annectation of Crimea and human rights in North Korea don't really affect the american citizens much. However, NATO contributions and trading agreements do. So let's befriend the bad guys, that we don't do much business with anyway, and put pressure on the ones we do business with (i.e. China, Europe, Canada), regardless of the innocent lives at risk and the risk of destabilizing the western world altogether.

I got to ask, how does the average US citizen see this play out, and how do you cope with the fact that Donald Trump has 2½ more years at the wheel to really mess up your country (and the world)?
An equation that could predict a better ML model. Honestly, I think claiming I want an equation is a touch too much. However, a falsifiable prediction would be nice.

Imagine if the only way we got accurate ballistics was by requiring faster more powerful guns all of the time. "We can hit the target, but only if we upgrade our guns to railguns and limit ourselves to large targets."
Can it be done without logging in?
The fact that they were strangers is super surprising, especially given how YC seems to discourage that kind of "founder dating", suggesting instead you found companies only with people you trust deeply.
> The OP makes it sound like inability to focus is a normal thing, but it's not.

But it is normal. When there are noises and distractions all around your desk, of course it's hard to focus.

It's also normal to be able to drown all those things out, and completely zone it out and focus on work.

It's also normal to thrive on activity, getting your best work done in a busy environment.

It really depends on the kind of work you are doing, and the kind of person you are.
There is a wide spectrum of what is "normal".

There is a simple reason that libraries/exam rooms/lecture halls are not full of distraction. People focus better without distraction.
Does Scala have Lisp-style macros?
It's just not worth it. I went to an open house this weekend to see a 800 sq ft 2b/1ba in Castro area for "only" 1 million and the ceilings were (no joke) ~6' high!
Indeed. All we'll need to do is to follow the blue glow.

I imagine the Cesium is in form of a stable salt. I wouldn't like to transport pure radioactive Cesium.
But you have no idea that you wouldn't be able to continue with your 40hrs and some days remote if you had a job at Google. There are lots of people who have a positive work/life balance at Google. Some take advantage of some perks, some others, and some don't use very many at all, but the fact is that there are many perks available catering to a huge spectrum of desires, whether that means fitness, food, social, cultural, technology, or financial.

Just because Google offers onsite laundry and serves three meals a day doesn't mean employees have to participate. But having them makes it a more appealing place to a broader range of potential candidates, and a friendlier place for employees, too.
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My evolutions.

RedHat4 (not RHEL, ~1998), Slackware, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Debian

Honestly, cut my teeth on Slack - loved it, but now debian is my mainstay.
Why are all of jmrko's links dead? They seem to be putting out useful information.
People likely won’t be blamed. It’ll most probably be a review of process and a correction of errors to prevent future occurrence.
Yup, first taste of Linux was Slackware too. We ran it on a 486 which was our University webserver for us and our friends. I still wonder what happened to that box.
I suggest that we should grant each "35-percenter" (wherever that term came from) not only the responsibility for their own retraining, but the resources to do so, and maybe even some suggestions (not orders!) as to what direction they should go in. Just giving them the responsibility without the resources sounds like the worst kind of "Social Darwinism".
Slackware was my first distro back in the early to mid 90s. Switched t it from SLS! Both were downloaded from a local BBS...

Used it until Stampede Linux came out. (Them Pentium optimizations were important!)
Drones are a good fit when an adversary doesn't have the capability to disrupt the communications infrastructure. Manned aircraft are a deterrent to actors with this capability.
Are you serious? When? Every single moment, that's when.

People are people, they make mistakes.

Although in this case it's clearly Trump's fault.
If what you are saying is true, why would a business choose to shut down their EU services until some later date?

Do they hate making money? Did they just want to make people panic about GDPR(after it had already been implemented)? Are their lawyers just really bad at their jobs?

Seriously. What is their motivations from your perspective?
This is the American Enterprise Institute quoting a report from British Petroleum. I don't trust anything these people have to say about emissions. They lie too much on the subject.
Note that this study covers 'on-target' effects.

As often covered in the news, CRISPR-mediated gene editing can be used to edit a DNA sequence to another, desired sequence. In these applications, it's very important that no other mutations besides the desired mutation are introduced. Such additional mutations would be 'off-target' mutations.

In a second kind of experimental approach, researchers can use CRISPR technology to make arbitrary mutations at a desired site in the genome. This approach cares less about the resulting damage; the goal is simply to destroy the existing gene.

The referenced article[1] seems to characterize the types of mutations that arise when people use CRISPR to ablate a gene (i.e., the second approach). It would be interesting to see if the range of DNA damage is restricted when CRISPR is instead used to change the sequence of a targeted DNA segment into another, desired sequence.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/Nbt.4192
I believe it to be true. And like professional sports there is an enjoyment to be had seeing how people so far above your skill level play
> It doesn't need to be the case that domain Y is static.

That's true, but I don't think it's relevant to what the providers want to prevent. Even if the domain changes based on some pool, if Y is used at some point, Y could be blocked as a collateral damage.

Since Y pays the provider, the provider cares about them not being blocked because of a functionality they enable.
Modernuity
There's still a couple per month, just labelled differently. MVP building, design or logo work. Some looking specifically to help FOSS projects.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17499461

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17344419

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17497020
Russia announced the abandonment of the su-57 yesterday. https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/russi...
Perhaps that's because you are not a part of the corporation. Why would you expect to have insight into their operations?
To be fair, the U.S. military is very effective against the individual people they are fighting at any given moment. Kill ratios in recent conflicts are of the order of 100:1. It's just that for every insurgent you kill, you create 10 more. Unless your goal is to just depopulate the rest of the globe (something I wonder about, given recent U.S. foreign policy), you can't actually win this war without addressing the conditions that lead people to hate the U.S. in the first place.
You mean like retirees like baby boomers or way in the future retirees? As long as Prop 13 stays around, you have quite a few retirees who've been in their current home for 40+ years and only pay like $700 in property taxes a year. They won't go anywhere and in fact are incentivized to stay.
Keep in mind that Arc is the start of something with long-term goals; further, it's part of a lifecycle that didn't necessarily start with Arc but with the first Lisp. PG points to an early essay titled "The Hundred-Year Language" [1] as an indicator of where Arc is intended to go and some future outlooks that might inspire more evolution.

I don't know that any programming language can be everything it needs to be from the outset, but it certainly needs inherent featured supporting longevity, a framework that supports change and evolution, while still having a pleasing and useful function that can be taken advantage of immediately.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html
That part works fine actually and is how I usually generate them, the problem is that then I need to tell people to download and open specifically in a browser. If they see previews in something like google drive, they see raw HTML.

Technically, all this is fine - the problem comes entirely from not having a nice agreed way of opening them. Which makes it more frustrating.