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We as software engineers make a damn good amount of money for literally sitting down all day and basically bossing computers around. It is not slavery.

I enjoy what I do and am making decent money doing it. If I won the lottery with FU money, yeah, I'd be done working for others.

I think around 35 is when you may see through any illusions employers have with buying into their grand mission statements or whatever to get you to work more for them with no more reward. You realize working for someone else is what the gig is and accept that.

When I get home from work sometimes I want to continue on the problem I was working on all day. Most of the time I stop myself and do other things I enjoy - relaxing things, hobbies, etc. Sometimes I will work on work stuff but that is up to me (unless it is some outage or emergency type thing).
People are working on making Haskell compile to web assembly.

[0] https://www.tweag.io/posts/2018-05-29-hello-asterius.html
[1] https://github.com/tweag/asterius
There is no difference, in fact they might be slower as they are on older kernels.
I'm nearing my fourties now. I have saved 27 years' worth of living expenses, assuming my current lifestyle (or longer, if I at some point decide to downgrade). Recently, I have given my notice. I want to finally try something else.
I hadn't seen bundler-inline before, thanks for posting this. That'll be nice for small scripts that don't warrant a whole directory themselves, or useful for a sort of "tools" / "utils" repo with small utility scripts.
Perhaps a test involving real bugs then :)
My point is the issue is not as black and white as you are making it out to be (hence, don't be an alarmist). All things are subject to interpretation and your position attempts to definitively categorize this activity as fraudulent behavior based on a 1000 word essay by a developer.
I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of the requirements used Amazon's numbers and marketing material as, shall we say, inspiration.
Perhaps because people are fathers and mothers around that age?
You just brought out bad dreams, having been one of their guinea pigs, back when it was HTML based.

I hope it is more user friendly nowadays.
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Not the same technique but generation of words is possible with Zemberek library as well, see the bottom example in the morphology section:

https://github.com/ahmetaa/zemberek-nlp/tree/master/morpholo...
> essentially deceiving payment processors to generate a profit.

That's not an illegal act, unless you can cite relevant statutes being broken. It's a contract breach.

Your whole analogy to Backpage breaks down without the initial illegal action that produces the revenue stream and sets in motion the need to launder the money.
Also that was a proxy war. Did you think Alfie's parents looked like they had piles of cash lying around to file spurious UK Supreme Court appeals? No "Christian Concern" bankrolls this sort of thing because apparently ensuring babies die as slowly as possible (preferably in agony) is what "Christian" means these days along with denying the ordinary civil custom of marriage to people for being Gay, shutting down access to abortion and making sure children are indoctrinated into Christianity under the pretence that it's part of the surrounding "culture" and not straight up religious brainwashing...

They're an unintentional advertisement for the benefits of secular government policies.
Seeing the Americans in this thread discuss their fear and mistrust of the medical system and the completely befuddling incentives that have been created in the US due to a for-profit medical system is straight up DISTURBING.

Healthcare is a human right in our modern prosperous civilization. What America has done to it is preposterous. You should be rioting, not starting lawsuits.
Yup, and same with Google, with the extra spookiness that has been surrounding Google for a while. And Facebook, but then there'd be a riot.
No.
I've made a conscious decision not to live life in fear, and not make decisions based on fear.

Having spent 2 years driving from AK to Argentina and now 2 years in Africa, I know more strongly than ever that I'm not interested in a "stable" or "guaranteed" future. It takes away so much spontaneity and adventure from life, and those are things I'm not willing to give up. Without them, I personally don't think life is worth living.

Interestingly I have recently met a bunch of people in Mozambique/Zimbabwe/Zambia who went to university or otherwise lived in London/USA/Australia for a few years. As soon as possible they returned to live in Africa. Quote "I don't want to just exist, I want to live."

Just the other week I met a 92 y/o lady who knows all about adventure. In 1950 her Dad loaded his wife, two daughters and the family dog into an old truck and drove from London to Zambia. The adventures they had on that journey far outweigh anything I have seen or experienced. He randomly made his home there, and she had endless stories of sitting on the porch watching elephants and a million other things. In her lifetime she hand raised a hippo that lived in her house for 19 years, raised a chimp that slept in her bed, and now runs an orphanage/foundation for well over 100 chimps.

When we're open to it, we can find a life of adventure that is extremely fulfilling, and I want that life.
The last time I went to Defcon, someone drove the security golf cart into the pool. Others were flushing bags of concrete down the toilet. There's damage, and then there is Defcon.
In another thread on long hospital shifts, commenters made the point that the detrimental effect of subtle information lost during a shift change often outweighs the effect of sleep loss during a long shift, when looking at patient outcomes.

I wouldn't be surprised if doctors here were gaming the rules because they knew a transfer would cause more harm than good.

On one hand, it's bad to disregard patient autonomy and legitimate guardianship, especially in such an extreme way.

On the other hand, if I was a professional convinced that not doing so would be likely to cause the death of a patient, I can't tell you for sure that I wouldn't do the same thing. The Hippocratic Oath does not say "First, follow the law; Second, do no harm".
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Wow, yeah. I counted out 16 seconds. I'm using umatrix, so I was starting to think I'd just blocked something needed for the site to load by default, but decided to give it a bit just in case.
> They have figured out that the majority of their work, to their surprise is not actually that important or necessary.

I used to keep wondering when I was going to get found out for not contributing to the company's bottom line like the other thousands of employees around me seem to do every day.

But then I realised that everyone else is probably doing exactly the same. And either a) none of us are doing anything valuable b) a small % are the driving force or c) we are greater than the sum of our parts

I hope it's c), feel like it's probably b), but maybe a) really is a real world scenario.
What are "capitalistic rules"?

Governments absolutely should be looking to make profits, it's just that they don't necessarily have to make them in dollars.

So say you were able to objectively measure the value a program produced (costs are usually already known). If a program costs 10 units for every unit of value it produces, maybe it isn't a good program. If it produces modestly more value than it costs, it's making society a profit.
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I think the entire point of this is to drop what you perceive to be your obligations and to focus on yourself.

You first have to identify what you see as your obligations, and to query them. This can be the keeping up with the Joneses, buying stuff for your partner/kids or being around family. In some cases what you think of as your obligations really aren't, your partner would rather spend time with you happy than get a bunch of stuff from you.

Sometimes what you think of as an obligation is something you really do have to do, like looking after your kids, or if some other family needs care. Though I like to think of these as responsibilities rather than obligations, something I've actively chosen rather than something that I've been lumped with.

I think this critical look at these pressures, and what really should be informing your life is key to being able to re-orient yourself to something that can make you happier.
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That's quite exactly what it has been for me in the past 5 years. Now I'm approaching the age of 35 and asking myself whether there is a single job that makes for most of my working life at all.

The desire to have such a job grows as things around me (family, friends) start to be more steady.
You are being silly - breach of contract to deceive payment processors IS wire fraud and bank fraud, which are specific named federal crimes which cover exactly this use case. If you like, here's an excerpt from the Backpage indictment:

"the People now allege that Defendants conspired to orchestrate a bank fraud by misrepresenting to credit payment processors that they were not processing transactions from Backpage, and this misrepresentation would trigger a release of funds from banks. The overt acts alleged clarify that Defendants created multiple classified websites, and when applying for (at least one) merchant account, Defendant Ferrer omitted any reference to Backpage, despite intending to process Backpage transactions through the account. The People allege that credit payment processors, along with American Express, would not have knowingly processed the payments for Backpage and the banks would not have released funds absent Defendants’ trickery."

I encourage you to look through the sections concerning money laundering in the California indictment: https://www.oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press_releas...
Unsaid: the continually rising cost goes hand-in-hand with the extra drag.

This probably should be studied, though we'll also have to study improvements in health care along with the extra headcount.
Couldn't have put it better. At some point you realize that as far as your company is concerned, you're just human capital. And, most likely when you leave to get a new job, nobody is going to notice all the good work you did, or care who you were. And it's not you that's going to get rich off all that work.
The US hasn't balanced a budget in decades. You would think that during an economic boom they would at least try. I am quite shocked nobody even seems to care- creditcard culture.
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How certain is it that the patient privacy release form will hold up in court? If Mayo is arguing that the patient cannot make their own medical decisions, doesn't it inherently undermine their own argument to recognize the privacy release form as a legitimate decision made by the patient?
(At least with OSMC) the current default skin is terrible IMO, install the older Confluence skin and things are much simpler.

YouTube and twitch plugins work well for me.
know how I know this story has falsehoods?

"After the calls from police, Alyssa’s parents figured out that their phones were being pinged and took the batteries out."

90% chance they all had iPhones. can't take iPhone batteries out. if they didn't, what phones have removable batteries?

riddle me that.
"despite legislative requirements he refused to provide his passcode"

Isn't that disobeying conditions of parole? Why not start there?
MicroPython runs on micro-controllers and can even compile to native, a bit like Cython.

Lets not forget many embedded devices are more powerful than 8 bit home computers.
It's an easy thing to say when you've come out the other end carrying a bag full of survivor bias. The reality is that there's a reason people don't do this very often and it's because there are tangible benefits to things like owning a home and not worrying about how you're going to pay for food. Not to mention the medical care situation in the US, which is outright designed to help trap people in their jobs.
It is much easier, but still it is tricky because of exceptions like palatal / non palatal l, ambiguous a and u because we do not use the circumflex accent anymore, subtleties about soft g etc.
Bitcoin is not viable due to it’s high transaction fees and low transaction rate. Some random Alt coin might work, but getting PornCoin adopted is difficult.
Tesla is also able to sustain the S/X without lots of pre-orders. Tesla has also said that they can see a sustained growth in orders in addition to the backlog. At some point they will reach some steady state number.
> But why would you want to model the eventual update step itself as a pure function?

So you can more easily debug the application across incorrect state changes: if your update function is pure, you can very easily compare the state-before and the state-after.

This maintenance of observability is a superset of the unit-testing bit legulere talks about, and also opens up new features e.g. undo/redo becomes trivial, just re-set the state to whatever you need. If you modify the application state in-place, things become much more complex.

In a way git can be treated as that, the HEAD commit is the application state, when you "modify the state" you don't modify that commit in-place instead you create a new commit, then move HEAD to that new commit. Only the second step is impure. Even amending a commit is the latter, you're not actually modifying the old HEAD, you're creating a new one from it then moving HEAD from one to the other.
I believe the main impact comes from Ubuntu using Linux 4.15 and GCC 7.3, while the other distros tested used Linux 4.17 and GCC 8.1+.
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Ask HN: Getting Started in UX Design and Research?
I’m working toward a career reset. I recently interviewed an acquaintance about his career as an in-house UX researcher and then later as a consultant. I have been doing these interviews as part of my alternative career exploration process and I believe that UX Design and Research would be a good fit for my interests and capabilities.

My background provides me a strong base with the soft skills side of the job (strategic communications, empathic interviewing, collaborative design work, etc); however, I would like to develop more job specific skills before I attempt to approach companies in my area (Minneapolis).

I am on contract in my current position until fall 2019, and I would like to use this time to build out a resume and adequate experience to make a run at entry level positions.

Can anyone with experience in this field offer general observations about:

1: base level expectations for knowledge/experience to acquire an entry level position in the field

and

2: specific resources that would be valuable sources of knowledge or best practices (books, blogs, discussion forums, slack channels, etc.)
> They have figured out that its much more about connections and office politics than hard work.

Just to be fair, developing/maintaining/managing connections and the political side (negociation, argumentation, understanding of the social mechanics, etc) is hard work.
We should all be automating image optimization
My phone does: a Samsung Galaxy.
Everyone seems focused on the numbers 32GB or 150 miles...Amazon has moved into lobbying in a big way. That is the actual story. Bigger than major investment banks. Bezos owns the only paper in Washington that actually does journalism. People involved with Amazon and the head of the DOD have been instrumental in crafting the proposal for JEDI.

Just because you learned AWS and it's been good for your resume doesn't mean that they aren't being underhanded in D.C.

If you are going to be a fan boy about it, then you should be excited that they seem to be outmaneuvering established players in the federal sector. That's what's happening.

This isn't "they built a better mousetrap", this is "they hired all the people that are ever asked about mousetraps, and they changed the language that you have to use to ask for a mousetrap, and they took over one of the better outlets that runs stories about fraud in the mousetrap business. Oh and their commodity mousetrap business is one of three equally good ones."

I know that you think AWS is WAY better and that it makes a difference. It doesn't. Azure and GCP are just as good for most of the things that people are building these days. Sure there are differences, but it's a commodity market.
Something like ESP32 is way more powerful than the PCW 1512 where we played Defender of the Crown.

There is plenty of juice on those systems for programming, given the languages we could use on MS-DOS.
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> what about your family? Relatives that might need your attention?

Absolutely, they're important, and by switching to doing something that makes me happier and healthier, I'm able to have a more positive impact on them and also have more time to spend with them. After all time is all we have to spend together, and I'd much rather spend it teaching my nephew to play guitar than sitting at a desk job I don't really enjoy. Because I'm a travel writer and photographer now I can "work remotely" and spend lots of time with family.

> Some will have to do some kind of preparations which can take quite some time too.

Of course! Anything worth doing requires hard work, and will probably take significant time.
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Its a compliance car because the way the fuel efficiency regulation works requires companies to have a balance of cars. I'm not from the US so I don't really understand it.

The Bolt is probably better then other compliance cars because they can see the future as well. Also who would buy those even lower range cars now that there is more competition.
There is dramatically more heat capacity in the ocean than in the atmosphere. Many power plants reject heat directly to the ocean, and clearly they do produce a local hotspot, which is much argued over by ecologists.

There can be some valid local ecological concerns. If it emits into a spot which is particular important to some species it can become a problem. It can also create ecological activities, where some species congregate around the outlet because they want the hotter water. This isn't necessary good, but again, it's a local occurrence.

Globally, using ocean water for cooling is almost always ecologically better, simply because it's more efficient than alternatives that are either constrained in terms of the usable volume flow of water, or must use a less efficient medium for heat transfer. Eventually, all heat we produce will be radiated into space, but if an activity indirectly produces greenhouse gases, then it warms by a very large multiplier compared to its direct heat production.
In the UK "government" is used both very generally (as you're construing it) to mean institutions including courts, police, the Bank of England, a local municipal authority, and thus about half of everything, and specifically to mean the executive, which in the UK is run directly by politicians from the ruling party in the legislature. Unless it's clear from context people usually mean the latter, and the executive steered well clear of baby Alfie's case.

In the US the Head of State figurehead role and the executive leadership are merged into the President of the United States, while a legislature remains separate. In the UK the Head of State figurehead role goes to a monarch (currently Queen Elizabeth II) but the executive leadership is granted to whichever group controls the legislature as Prime Minister.
I think you might be over generalizing. Not all jobs are like that, surely.

Also, any employee who thought that way would probably never rise far in their company, hence a self fulfilling prophecy.
I started with 28, maybe earlier, but 28 was when I finally snapped, haha.

I worked 7 for the same company, while studying and a few years after I finished my degree.

It was a small chaotic company, they were a startup that found a hand full of big corps to pay for the day-to-day expenses, but it never really grew up and never got product market fit.

After a big re-write of the product, with much overtime on my side, I asked my manager what my personal growth options are in the company.

Well, there weren't any.

So I quit a month later and did a sabbatical in 2014.

After that I tried freelancing and tried different things, always asking myself "Is this what I want?"

It helped me at least to filter out what I don't want and I'm much happier.
I think you should carefully read your quote - it includes the word "Backpage" four times, as in the illegal source of funds that created the laundry opportunity. Breach of contract with payment processors is certainly NOT wire fraud by itself, that's an absurd statement.
That sounds quite wise.

Incidentally, has anyone ever managed to get more money for actually delivering a working product?

I sort of like creating things, but get frustrated that other people profit from my work or even claim it as their own.
What would you suggest to optimise for instead?
Software engineers / developers live in their own bubbles. It takes a certain amount of willfulness to want to get into that type of work, so it is no wonder a handful (or more than a handful) of well paid engineers actually enjoy their work. Of course that goes for other professions but I imagine the majority of the population does not live in your reality.
> the medical care situation in the US, which is outright designed to help trap people in their jobs.

Absolutely! so start working on something right now to free yourself from that. I left a perfectly good first-world country and permanently moved to another one because I liked the quality of life better - you can too!
The main issue here is the lack of a fundamental right: the right to get a second opinion from a licensed MD. In The Netherlands, you have this right. Apparently in the USA, you don't. And if all the MDs work for the same employer, there's a possible conflict of interest.

We've got this right in law as well (going to a higher court). The downside though is it costs both time and money.
It can be quite stable if you have multiple sources of income.
And that is not that tough with the Internet.

In fact, I think it will be more stable (~reliable) than having a single traditional source of income.
I have mixed feelings. I am against outright quotas for the reasons you state, but I’m all for expanding the search for qualified people and deemphasizing internal referrals.

I got my start because there was one company that specifically targeted internships from HBCUs. You don’t have to be Black to go to an HBCU, but few White people choose to go there[1]. Is that any less fair than companies that don’t look past a few elite schools?

When I got my first job as a team lead and was in a position to hire people on contract, my manager told me, that the company needed “another me”. I told my manager that I had a former coworker who was looking for a job and I trusted him completely. My manager was willing to hire him sight unseen and pay him more than the other contractors just based on my recommendation. I would much rather hire someone I knew. This feedback keeps the outsiders on the outside, but from my own self interest, why wouldn’t I hire someone I knew and trusted?

[1] I remember talking to a White friend of mine who told me that he was going to a (worse) college out of the city because there were “no four year schools in the city”. He acted like the HBCU didn’t even exist.
Well there are also a lot of exceptions in Turkish. Like "e". "Mert" and "Meyhane" have different "e"s. For many words, you just have to know how to pronounce them.
That's literally what they were trying to do; read the article.
I'd assume you still need a small datacentre close to it, i.e. on the cost, for routing, backup generators, maintenance, etc.
The older millenials are over 35 now...