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I believe (vanilla) software development is a young man's/woman's game. I realized this last year at age 38 and I've been rapidly trying to alter my career trajectory.

- If you aren't a specialist, you are constantly competing against 20-somethings who will always be more current in their skills and breadth than yourself, because they have more free time than you have (e.g. I have a wife, kid)

- I've written GUI widgets from scratch, servers from scratch, same thing with linked lists, sorting, etc. Guess what? That doesn't likely justify an ever-increasing salary. No one cares.

- Older programmers tend to be very opinionated and have lots of war stories. This gets on peoples nerves. The stereotype, based entirely on truth, is that they are cranky and hard to work with.

I don't believe the same is true in specialized disciplines like engineering or modelling/simulation, numerical programming, etc. A 40, 50, 60 year-old engineer/mathematician/analytics developer doesn't have the same stigma. Those decades of experience are invaluable. The fundamentals of engineering or statistics aren't being reinvented every 3-5 years. Web development skills that are 5 years old are literally worthless today. Aside from general problem solving techniques, unless you've really specialized, the stuff you developed 10-20 years ago is of minimal value today and that experience (writing software that is now obsolete and could now be written in a fraction of the time, likely!) doesn't make you competitive against younger programmers.

My takeaway was to go deep as possible into analytics and math. AI, ML, anything that requires heavy math background, those are what I'm focusing on now.
Not an answer, but I've never heard it called the "Winograd domain." The Winograd transform is an algorithm for computing small discrete Fourier transforms, so its the same Fourier domain.
How do you have an oversupply of cabs/Ubers?

There is a certain demand by passengers and cabs/Ubers will meet that demand. If there are too many cabs/Ubers, then they won't make money and will stop driving.
A couple months ago there were optimist articles about how they'll "make it in the long run", having "enough money to keep going before being profitable". Cinemark even announced something similar.

Guess it didn't last THAT long. I'm scared for other services with the same pricing scheme.
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Haha, that's a good one. I had a guy take his seatbelt off, and try to tell me that the dinging I was hearing was an alarm about oil pressure. The only sympathy I have for the yellow cabs is that the city screwed them with those pricey medallions, the city should refund a substantial portion of the money.
The truth is, plenty of people go to libraries. By my local library's annual 2017 report, they have 625,000 active library card holders which collectively visited the library over 10 million times. [1]

This is one of the busiest library systems in the country, but shows that, at least within a local region, libraries may be heavily used.

[1] https://kcls.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2018/03/2017-Ye...
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I find the whole hypothesis of the "grey bias" to be rather baffling. My personal thought is that boomers are puzzled that this industry doesn't confirm to the standards set in the other engineering discipline (ie younger workers are treated like shit and expected to like it with next to no advancement opportunities).

In my experience, older (20+ years exp) workers that have kept their skills sharp and were above average throughout their careers tend to do well. However, those that expect software to work like other engineering fields, where seniority is a sole function of tenure, tend to take arms and complain about the new generation out performing them.
> Those 2.7m cars don't spend 10+ hours driving each day

No, they spend 10+ hours parked on two sides of my narrow street.
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I completely believe that, but I also believe between Graydon originally and yourself, the role kinda exists :-) I meant to give Rust as an example of community-driven, not of the slow decision/implementation cost comment, but I can see how I wrote that wrong; that part was meant for the bikeshedding communities that fork in every direction. Maybe I should revise my statement to say strong leadership is ideal instead of a directionless community.
The Space Invaders (Midway 8080) platform described here is really easy to emulate; it's just a 1-bit frame buffer hooked up to a CPU. Subtracting the CPU emulator, my implementation on http://8bitworkshop.com/ takes less than 200 lines of code. One of the easiest with which to get started.
He never explains the misaligned teeth. They seem to agree that the teeth are "healthy" but also that they were previously straight, and are no longer straight. A little odd, don't you think?
Sure, you can do that if you want or have to, but you won't be able to do it consistently or properly - you simply have to accept that some of your transliterations will be different than the official/proper transliterations of the same names, that the some of these people will have an official ID in Latin alphabet with a different name than what you wrote. And this is not a theoretical situation, such issues with wrong transliterations (and somebody missing a name because they're searching for a different spelling, or someone being offended because you wrote their name wrong) tend to appear ocasionally in various international sporting events, law enforcement and medicine/casualty situations.
It was helpful, thanks. And sounds very interesting (last 3 projects). The kind of stuff I would be interested in probably, more so than web dev. Web is publishing, basically, and user interaction. Important, but it's not everything out there. Thanks a lot for response! :)
It's a great way to frame the current political climate and several crucial periods in American history. The author didn't exactly phrase it that way (he is a historian not an economist) but I'd recommend The Republic for Which It Stands by Richard White from the Oxford History of the United States series. He starts out the acknowledgments "I have written a book about a time of rapid and disorienting change and failed politics, and now I finish it in a parallel universe" and goes into great lengths about the failure of institutions as they tried to rebuild during the hyper polarized post-Civil War Reconstruction era. Reading it is quite unsettling at times because the later years look almost exactly what is happening now with privatization and erosion of government - symbols that were rapidly arbitraged to the highest bidder.
AFAIK it has not been proven if it breaks down into lsd-25 of if 1p itself fits into the 5-ht receptor as it’s own in vivo.

>It has been theorized that 1P-LSD may act as a prodrug for LSD. While 1P-LSD shows only 38% the potency of LSD in mice, LSD is detected via LC-MS when 1P-LSD is incubated in human serum. Follow-up studies are currently being conducted to compare the affinity and selectivity of LSD and 1P-LSD at 5-HT receptors, and to determine whether 1P-LSD is hydrolyzed to LSD in vivo.[1] Otherwise, it is possible that 1P-LSD may be capable of exerting its own psychedelic effect.

https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/1P-LSD
> as the two products merge.

The 2 products aren't merging, so far as I am aware. Slack is buying Hipchat and then promptly discontinuing support for it. It's primarily a move to eliminate competition, not to acquire technology.
Big fan of her UNIX book, I used it a lot during my early days of AIX janitoring! Thank you Evi!

It seems like there’s so few prolific writers in the sysadmin space. James Turnbull is another who’s work has been invaluable to my career.
I can also recommend:

https://github.com/kroitor/asciichart (JS, Py)

https://github.com/guptarohit/asciigraph (Go)

https://github.com/madnight/asciichart (Haskell)
Because the city sold them on the basis that they offered an exclusive right to pick up street hails in manhattan. Uber, et al, have essentially eliminated that exclusivity.
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> We tied it into our AD

sorry if it's obvious but do you mean Active Directory?
Although the image would open separately from the terminal window, Termgraph is cool and I might extend RESTcharts (https://github.com/whatl3y/restcharts) to support a CLI mode that would generate an image of a chart based on an input file, then open the image after it's created on the file system.
This was really my only problem with not having my phone, but most if not all of what I use will send you an SMS with your 2FA so this could be easily replaced with a $9 flip phone, at least for me, but YMMV.

For work I use Winauth. I am a hourly corporate tech employee with no on-call duties currently so I don't have work Slack or any work 2FA on my personal devices.

I am looking into a yubikey or similar for the future.
I love this. It feels like a solution to a problem I never knew I had. I'm a very visual thinker, and there have been so many times where I wish I could summarize a volume of data into graphs without loading up Sheets.
Libraries are public institutions funded by tax payers and mainly employ civil servants and government employees. It would be terribly ironic if a public institution did not abide by the law or respect your rights. Not to mention they do not exist for profit.
Except library usage correlates with the opposite of what you're suggesting: http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/09/15/who-uses-libraries-and.... Different ethnicities use libraries at almost exactly the same rate, and lower-income and lower-education households use libraries less than higher-income, higher-education households.

Library use is declining across the board, but especially quickly in rural communities, among those with less than a high school degree, and among African americans.
IIRC Dolphin as a JIT. In fact I think it has separate JITs for the CPU and GPU.
It's eye-opening that there are companies that forgets about cash-flow and profitability...
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Why do you think that's something any of those employees desire? They make significantly more money, have more benefits, and likely work fewer hours than any union employees in the US. Additionally, unions in the US tend to base pay on seniority rather than any kind of merit, which is a huge turn-off for ambitious people.
As a non-American, I did not feel it was highly critical of the Trump administration

> Now, that's not to fault the Trump administration for applying maximum pressure on North Korea for an American citizen ending up brain-damaged in its custody: Such behavior warrants punishment. Nor is it to imply that the senior government official lied to The New York Times about the intelligence reports, as some analysts suggested to me; that person seems to have correctly described them. But if the maverick boldness that the administration displayed in rescuing Otto represents the best of Trumpism, what followed once it was clear the reports were flawed encapsulates its troubling disregard for facts when a dubious narrative supports its interests.

You could say that the last sentence is critical but, Trump or no Trump, any government is using sometimes dubious arguments for its own interest. Never let go a crisis go to waste.
>If IRC was so compelling then why didn't it take off
Define 'take off'. It was quite popular in the 90s and early 00s, but not in comparison to say AIM or ICQ for example. But where are those two networks now ... and IRC is still there.

People seldom seem to acknowledge this, but software apps go through fads just like everything else. Slack won because it was the new hotness and it was able to get the network effect snowball. Especially in the beginning, small things matter a lot, and Slack was pretty polished right out of the box.

IRC's main issues in my opinion are a lack of integrated file/attachment handling (you can't just post that meme GIF in a channel without finding someplace to upload it first) and hideous clients. If there were more free clients like the Colloquy Mac client I still use even though it basically has been abandonware for almost a decade, I think IRC would have had an easier time getting traction.
An assistant professor at UCSD just announced a new method for recycling cobalt in lithium-ion batteries.

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-lithium-ion...
Exactly right. But it makes for a catchy title doesn't it? And if you're research lab is working on anodes for batteries you need to pitch urgency to get the big funding, who wants to fund research for problems that are 50 years out?

But cynicism aside, the key to making renewables a practical base load replacement for fossil fueled plants is a solid battery infrastructure. And those batteries aren't 'car batteries' they are 'city batteries'. We really do want to get to the point where energy independence is possible so continuing to improve batteries is a good thing.

It is just hard for some people to prioritize without an imminent threat of disaster.
Gr8 idea and sorry that you tried so hard.

Did you consider taking an open source mp like vlc and modifying, I assume that would be simpler and more scalable.
The only person claiming that is the family.

"Natural and in good repair" from the American doctor.

The family also refused an autopsy. Weird right?
> While you might argue that people should be allowed to post anti-miscegenation rants into the void, posting them @ a mixed-race couple is clearly abuse.

Not at all - if one is willing to accept @mention from a random twitter user instead of only from a pre-cleared group of one's contacts, one does not get to post action claim that the @mention of his or her account is abuse because one does not like the content of that mention.
I think you could accomplish this more easily with a semi-evacuated floating tunnel heading east from the Galapagos Islands, and up the west slope of Chimborazo, whose peak is the closest to space of any other mountain on Earth.

That means it already has higher angular velocity by virtue of being close to the equator, and is further from the Earth's center of gravity by virtue of being situated on the equatorial bulge. The peak is also 45% the atmospheric pressure at sea level.

The floating tunnel would be about 1100 km, and then about 150 km up the volcano. At a constant acceleration of 30 m/s^2, relative to the launch tube, 1250 km of track gets you up to 8660 m/s after 289 s. Then you get 464 m/s from changing reference frames from Earth-fixed to Earth-relative at the peak of the volcano. Subtract about 1300 m/s for drag, and 7824 m/s is roughly a LEO at 200 km. About 3 Gs for about 5 minutes is easily tolerated by healthy humans in the correct orientation--we do that in amusement park rides for fun.
Uh, the article is about revenue, not headcount.
But that "stigma" is not inaccurate is it? Most of the people in the US with AIDS are gay men and drug users. Sure other people get AIDS, but the rate is much lower.

Edit: clarified I was talking about US cases
In the media? That was (and still is) the reality of the situation as regards HIV infection rates.
On what terms would you actually lend MoviePass $5m? It would seem surprising at this point if MoviePass makes it to September.
I am going through Touretzky's Gentle Introduction to Common Lisp and I recommend it. You can download the entire book in pdf for free, or buy an updated version of the book. I don't see much difference between the two.
> calling it an "imaginary" position is disingenuous at best

It was never worthy of engagement anyway, so perhaps stop creating strawpeople with it.
I assume it's because now there's literally something for you to eat from the paleolithic?
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Don't forget the part where they now show you tweets that people you follow have liked, just the same as if they had retweeted them.

I already unfollowed people who tweet/retweet too much for my liking, and now I have to unfollow people who 'like' things prolifically also? Ridiculous.
From an employer perspective, as long as the employee is a good asset there's no dead-end. To be a good asset as a developer, you need to be good at coding and somehow easy to work with. That's it for an employer. Now, from an employee perspective it's a complete different story. When you have fresh grads coming in every day with a lot of energy and already up to date with all the latest trends and technologies, no family life, no mortgages, no kids, no responsibilities. How do you keep up with that at 40? They can spend 15h at the office who cares.
Huh? That's the purpose of venture capital...to make money. How is it "misappropriated"? I'd say it used exactly as intended.
What, you don't think anyone would be named "The Siberian Times reporter"?
> shows correlation, not causation

Oh boy, I guess I'm the one who has to tell you that causality can't actually be proven with regards to real events ever, and that correlation and repeated experiments don't conclusively prove anything, they just give us some very good authority with which to make a claim. Correlation doesn't prove causation, but it can suggest it very strongly.

And again, here you are arguing about university education in a discussion about libraries.
I was responding to a simplification. It is of course more complex that I'd expressed, but I tailored my criticism in the least convoluted way I could to make the point. If you want to talk about political economy, international IP law, and Hobbesian traps we can, but it's fruitless when someone is saying that the market can "easily" solve environmental concerns.
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Hollow Knight drops you into the world with no maps at all, and it's very disorienting. It's hard to find save points, and when you die it's extremely tough to know where your soul (to get your coins/geo back) is located. You do learn some landmarks, but once you figure out how to get the maps, the game becomes a whole lot easier. Every new area throws you into it without a map.
Possible. Not fooling myself. And the ad tech industry doesn't have the technology to control your mind, or steal your soul. Their efforts remain overwhelmingly wasteful and ineffective.

I would reiterate my recommendation of investigating why you feel such lack of self-control.
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Anecdotally the vast majority of street blockages I've observed are from trucks unloading, illegally double parked blocking a lane of traffic, rather than for hire cars.
Many people need this resources, including our children. That’s why we need to slow down our crave for things and enjoy what we have. We don’t need to change cars every 4 year, we don’t need to commute as we do, we don’t need all the clothes, we don’t need to eat meat at every meal. Also we don’t need to work in useless jobs only to have money to buy useless things. We need to reconnect with nature and with each other.
I can't tell if you're being serious or not, but for a lot of distributed companies, it just isn't realistic for people to get on the phone every time they need to talk to one another.
Whenever someone passionately hates Jira my go-to line is "your Jira instance can only be as good as its admin."

IT departments in charge of installing and upgrading Jira don't tend to bother with optimizing it, and most companies don't have dedicated Jira admins.

So you either have a motivated employee that will moonlight as an admin and figure out how to make it better in their spare time, or you just end up using all the defaults, which most projects probably don't need.
“Companies that got big, continue to get bigger, instead of instantly stopping once big. News at eleven.”

I’m only half-joking. The companies are big to begin with because they did something better than their competitors. Also they can attract and afford to hire the best in key roles.
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Agreed - besides obviously checking out books, my kids (8 & 10) do a range of activities (all free to attend) at our local library - they’ve done a creative writing workshop, a science workshop, an arts & crafts session, attended a biodiversity talk and will shortly do a couple of sessions to make a stop motion animation - and that’s just in the past two months. They also often see class mates there, which adds to the social aspect of development outside of a school context.
What i find most interesting must be how this sort of creature came to be. It's "evolutionary strategy" must be to simply get frozen, only to get defrozen every thousand years or so, eat and procreate, then when the cold comes get frozen once more for even more years.

So, I just assume that this creature must've survived several hundreds of thousands of years by being frozen and only procreating when the earth becomes warm enough
I know I editorialized the title by remove the quote, but it was 29 characters too long if I included it.
The author implies that the Otto story was simply a lever for Trump to start a war with NK. And that when moods change, the Otto story is no longer "useful" to Trump and so is forgotten. This is more an indictment of the 24 hours news cycle I think.

He also spends a great deal of time defending the NK hospital procedures and "likely" incarceration facilities.

I mean, personally I'm repulsed by NK. I'm repulsed that Trump treated their leader with dignity. I'm repulsed that this story implies that the north koreans didn't get a fair shake in the press.
There are roughly 85,000 mines in the U.S. Of those, 62,000 are outright abandoned. Rest are either nonproducing, temporarily idled, sealed, or intermittently active. Only about 6,300 are currently active.

It's not a limited resource problem but a profitability problem. Think the main article's point is that you probably want to research diversifying now before a resource squeeze forces you to catch-up.
You did claim that you were “struggling to find any” bugs in Elm. There are definitely a lot of bugs in the JS ecosystem, but one should also compare the avenues for remediating bugs in that ecosystem versus Elm (easier to fork/patch buggy code, more frequent bugfixes, more alternatives, etc).
And I remember lots of stories about Yellow Cabs not stopping for black people. That really disappeared with Uber.
Except statistically W.A.S.P.s are no less likely to use a library: http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/09/15/libraries-at-the-cross...
Your source does not support your claim.