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> That’s where recruiters come in. They know the range and you can ask them before you even start the interview process.

True, with the caveat that all benefits of (external) recruiters depend on the degree of alignment between your respective interests.

For example, if you choose a recruiter who only works with positions up to $X, I guarantee the top of the range he will assess you is going to be... you guessed it, $X.

Some recruiters also get paid more by some employers for some positions. So a recruiter may steer you towards a position that is inferior, including pay-wise, because he'll personally get paid more if you take it.

This can end really bad for you, since some of the employers who pay recruiters the most are those with the highest turnover... which usually has its own good reasons.

Always remember: recruiters ultimately get paid by the employers, not by you.

The best strategy is to work with several external recruiters, and ideally also interview with some employers directly.
I think the original comment was the natural extension of "it will let you". Yeah, it will let you, and you might not notice. And then a week later, a month later, suddenly something doesn't work right. There's no immediate cause for the error you're seeing. The debug output isn't pointing to anything you've worked on recently. Why isn't this working? The change you just made is absolutely flawless. But it calls a function you wrote last month and forgot about, and that function is wrong.

It let you lie to it, and then it got you.
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Restaurants have an infamously high failure rate and low margins, so I wouldn't use that example if I was arguing for your position.

Unlike other people responding, I agree that people without a business background struggle when starting a business. There are a lot of developers who start a business and have no clue about pricing or marketing or sales.[0] They have a high failure rate.

If you know one side, you may succeed if you're a quick learner and/or your core idea is good enough, but you're at a disadvantage compared to an individual or team with knowledge of tech and business.

[0] Note that these are all things a developer could learn without a business degree, just like I learned to program without a CS degree.
Care to give specifics?
He didn’t say that America wasn’t beautiful, he was talking specifically about American cities. There are some beautiful parts of some American cities, but I think the general criticism is fair. I think it just so happens that the same is true of most cities around the world too. There are beautiful parts of Paris, London, Athens, St. Petersburg etc, but also large gray, dirty, ugly parts. It’s right to point out that large parts of many cities are dirty and ugly, but unfair to single out America as being uniquely culpable in creating such spaces.

It’s also unfair to compare the the nicest parts of Amsterdam with the worst parts of SF, just as it’s unfair to compare the nicest parts of Boston with the worst of Mumbai. What America is full of is natural beauty, but generally outside of the cities. From sweeping desserts to warm beaches and deep forests, they have it all, and it really is beautiful. Northern Europe is lovely too, but it’s also small, far from densely populated, and homogenous. America is vast and varied, and if we’re talking about the whole continent it has everything from glaciers to rainforests.
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"We’ve chosen scale, and the conceptual apparatus to manage it, at the expense of finer-grained knowledge that could make a more just and equitable arrangement possible."

There is some truth to that, but there are also cases where companies monitor the root hairs of the supply chain for quality but forbid the quality inspectors from reporting any human rights issues they see (and/or they arrange the inspections to limit the chance that they will see any such issues). IIRC (I don't have a good link at the moment but will update if I find one), this is particularly likely to happen with industry run certifications like Rainforest Alliance or Forest Stewardship Council where the certifications claim to do detailed tracking for environmental or social reasons but because they are run by companies that profit off of exploitation they rather provide a framework for punishing suppliers with quality issues.

It is a very much intentional situation and not just on the part of companies but also the governments of powerful countries that ensure that exploitative arrangements are available. It is not, as the author claims, something that was made possible by the internet but is a defining aspect of the last at least five hundred years of world history, the major driving force behind colonialism. For anyone who cares about human rights or history it is a vital topic to pay attention to.

In terms of how to attempt to avoid at least the worst of the exploitation when buying things, look for fair trade certifications or other certifications that have a fair trade aspects that are supported by labor and human rights organizations and not just industry group. Avoid buying from the largest food and clothing companies as they are some of the worst offenders. Support politicians and labor and human rights organizations that work to hold companies accountable for their supply chain conditions.
Also side note: there are plenty of names available on NPM. I have 69 (lol) packages on NOM. Only rarely is my first choice taken.

Often if my first choice is taken I just try to get more specific about the name and the name actually gets better.

The existential poverty of names is only an issue if you’re trying to name your stuff something cutesy and arbitrary, like “squeak”. If you just call the thing what it is you’ll have no trouble putting it in the public namespace.
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There are approximately one million places with good guides to learning the technical skill behind photography, because there is not all that much technical skill to learn. The rest of it is art. Subjectively, I don't like the art they produce. This is of course just an opinion.
The best way I've found to avoid this problem is to have multiple offers on the table at the same time. And to be sure the employers are aware they have competition.

It seems to create the same dynamics as a blind-bid procurement process, which works in your favor.
... or climate change scientist? Or economist? Or president?

The problem of separating experts vs non-experts might be the single biggest problem society faces right now.
which follows from "not smalltalk", unless there's another SqueakJS?
How has it allowed abuses? In the American west, water rights are property rights and there is clear ownership to water.
Referral by former colleague.
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Reminded me of the exclave Point Roberts, Washington. There was a story linked to here on HN a while back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Roberts,_Washington

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/point-roberts

It seems to me that Netherlands and Belgium are handling the situation somewhat more pragmatic.
Yes, I would call bullshit on that one too.
If I may ask, why do you want to work for yourself? In many cases, keeping a well-paid job is just as good as (if not better than) being self-employed.
This could have been made into an awesome BMX/skate park. In terms of usage, I don't know what gets better return for public land.

Next time you're at a park with a skatepark, I bet you'll see it's packed, and generally there is a totally disused baseball diamond next to it.
I believe that Taiwan will eventually merge with the mainland. Perhaps via the two-systems one China route that Hong Kong did. The claims of mainland China on Taiwan are understandable and I don't fault them for their perspective on the issue.

Is the United States really willing to go to war with China over this? I don't think so. Are Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines willing to go to war with China? China's desire for Taiwan far exceeds the willingness of others to fight them over it. This is especially so since China is taking the long range approach. They aren't going to outright invade Taiwan. It's akin to a death by a thousand cuts. Slowly, but surely, they inch their way to control.
Recruiters don't know, or often lie about the true range. They are incentivized more to get you in the door than to get every last $, because that will sour their future with that company and will only net them a % of that increase.
I work on Mac OS X and my experience is quite good. Homebrew + IntelliJ and I can get my Java development going guite easily (plus redis, mongodb, tomcat, zookeepper...
How can you say this? I linked the spec.
Very interesting article. I suffer from sudden hearing loss and tinnitus, I've visited the doctor's office and they said that there was nothing they could do about it. This was during summer and I was dealt with by a summer intern. I suspect she was not fully capable of diagnosing me properly and that I should return and try to elaborate more clearly what and how the issue did arise along with what I have read recently about this issue.

Is there anyone else who have experienced the same issue? It struck me after a (very bad) night sleep combined with too much caffeine. I became almost deaf in my left ear when I woke up and was replaced by the tinnitus after about a week and has plagued me ever since.
Finding a good book is not particularly easier than finding a good set of blog posts. While the quality of books is on average significantly better, finding books where the material was written in the past year is much harder.

Particulary in the trendy JS world, where there might not be a good book for the stack you are using, and even when there is, you ask questions online and get responses that are roughly "It hasn't worked like that for 6 months, why are you trying to do it this way?"

You give the example of the Phoenix book; I don't know if that's what this team was using. If it was not, the fact that there is a good book for that stack is not particularly relevant. If they were using Phoenix, then the fact that there is not a good book for most stacks would explain why they wouldn't consider looking for one for the stack they are using.
What was it? I can’t read Washington post.
By the way , as mentioned in this a few more general recent articles about the state of NLP worth reading are: http://deliprao.com/archives/301 https://www.skynettoday.com/editorials/state_of_nmt
Same here! I don't think I would have read it if not for your comment.

For others skittish about that sort of thing: she fractured a bone in her inner ear.
We just tell people in a fairly detailed document we share with everyone. Comp is not completely open, but everyone lives in a band for the position and we stick to it.
Social media wasn’t always like this. I think back to the ways I used Twitter, Facebook and Instagram in the early days and they were completely different than they way they are used today. They were personal, real time, and no one cared about “likes”.

I think a lot of the problems with social media today could be solved just by removing “the numbers.” If suddenly all the like, follower, following, and comment counts disappeared I suspect people would use these things fundamentally differently. I see people browsing through IG tapping to like for 20 minutes at a time and think to myself, “why are you even doing that?” It’s a compulsion that does nothing.
"Move fast and break things" only works if your company has a stranglehold on a monopoly and your user base is used to bugs in production. Terrible advice for just about everyone else. You want your users to have the best experience possible, rather than do your QA process for you.

EDIT:
I should say my point is: "moving fast" and "testing things" are goals that aren't contradictory. You can and should do both.
> If you read this far hoping for an answer, then I’m sorry: I don’t have a simple one. This is a difficult problem to solve. The solution is too large for a single blog post, changes every day, and differs subtly for every project.

[Cough] - Hire a few more (expensive) experienced developers? It might not be a silver bullet, but it goes a long way towards avoiding the situation described in the blog post. Also, get help from a trusted technical friend to hire the initial one.

FWIW I see something similar with almost every client I get in my own neck of the wood. Growth is flat. Turns out nobody is worrying about whether they're building a product anyone wants - they're doing it on paper but nobody is actually talking to end-users. Marketing is under-delivering. Turns out it's all juniors worrying about bringing traffic without wondering if it's the right type of traffic; or they're not measuring anything, plain and simple. Sales aren't selling enough. Turns out it's all juniors who aren't selective or systematic enough; or sales are doubling as pseudo-project managers and/or pseudo support-engineers because nobody is managing operations. Projects take forever to deliver. Turns out the project "manager" holds nobody accountable to deliver any specific task let alone by a certain deadline. The list could go on, and on, and on.
I agree, even though I switched jobs 5 times in 10 years I had to have a story to tell - one company went out of business, one product was cancelled, one was a “change of direction and they didn’t want to be a software company”, but they did want me to finish a project and paid me well enough to lead it to completion.

But now I am starting to get the job hopping stench about myself.

But if you really want to stay liquid - contract. You don’t get the job hoppers stench about you if you do want to go full time later on.
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I don’t have a dog in this fight either way, but the us doesn’t seem particularly interested in defending our allies anywhere right now, so I imagine that China is going to start flexing its muscles in more and more obvious ways. I think even if you think trump is an anomoly, America is tiring of maintaining the post WWII order, and China is only just ramping up its interest in expanding its sphere of influence.
That is sort of a tautology solution. Hire someone who can solve the problem and you won't have the problem.

But how do you know when you have done that? Experience alone doesn't necessarily mean they can solve your problem.
Some time ago I was writing some software in Go in my spare time (just for fun and I could spend my time how I liked it). As I wasn't completely sure what it should look like in the end, so I thought it would be reasonable to skip writing tests in the beginning and just write the code and add tests afterward where they would be necessary.

Fast forward I had to write the whole code twice. The second time I wasn't completely sure how it should look like either, but I put a much greater emphasis on interfaces and modularity. That way I could guarantee that parts of the program were actually doing what they were supposed to do, which made the bug hunt so much more effective.

So sometimes the longer way is actually the faster one and experience matters when it comes to recognizing such situations.
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It really comes down to risk management. Engineering is the discipline of making trade-offs, one of which is deciding when a risk is acceptable.

If the risk to your end users is low, or the hazards are minimal, then yeah you can push crap code to production daily because nobody is actually harmed by it. If the crap code carries a risk of say bringing down your payment or accounts system, causing you to lose revenue, then you might spend more time mitigating the risk by testing, reviewing, and improving the code.

On the extreme end of the spectrum, where the hazards posed by bugs crash your spacecraft into the atmosphere or break your $300 million dollar probe, you tend to spend a lot of time validating and verifying your solution because a single mistake is very costly.
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This mentioned both by the parent and in the post.
My wife is a teacher, they still do this.
Your process manager can alert you when a restart happens. You can then fix the problem.
Interesting thought, which seems logical, but I'm not sure it's enough. People can still be lonely around family or close friends, so to some degree it is seems situational. How do we explain the apparently inexorable rise of loneliness across the globe? Have deep relationships become less common or more difficult to achieve in the last half century? If it were that simple wouldn't we find it easier to resolve?

> Deep relationships should necessarily be uncommon

I don't think this follows. It's not that long ago that people most often lived in a small town or village and had deeper relationships with just about everyone. Partly because life and work constrained numbers and proximity and you knew most for much of your life.
>huffpo

bye.
Palau is a great place but also a place that doesn't have trouble courting international controversy. They were among the only countries willing to take ex-prisoners from Guantanamo Bay and were willing to refuse some large tourist hotel investments.

As one of the best destinations for scuba and snorkling in the world, I think Palau will be fine despite Chinese sanctions.
assuming you have a generally good education and brain to start with, a lot of hard work can usually accomplish it.

Think Elon Musk learning about rockets, back before he lost his mind.

I did it once for climate change, took a couple months, some math. Got there though.
On reverse car salesman - use this on the company you know for sure you want. Likely the company you know for sure you want will remain that company even within a 10k range price difference (speaking to software engineers here). That being said, you can start throwing all sorts of weird shit on the table, if you've already negotiated your salary up. PTO is usually the first thing that comes to mind, but I've also seen "guaranteed right to wear flip flops in the office, forever, no matter what office dress code becomes" put in a very picky qa engineer's contract (which is funny because he showed up to his onsite in a suit and tie... And I haven't seen him in anything but flip flops since). There's a hardware laboratory here so I got "access to laboratory" put in my contract, and since then I've learned to solder by just hanging around in there. Remote work stuff comes to mind, maybe some sort of time-bound access to powerful servers, just see what you can think of.

Reason being, if the company has to give just one more thing to nab you, they'll feel like they really worked hard to secure the perfect candidate, there'll be no doubt in their mind, the recruiter/decision maker will always tell the story about how you were looking at other offers "but we finally secured her by putting the Foosball table right into her contract." And on the other side of it, you get that warm fuzzy feeling that you negotiated all there was to negotiate.
Inventory is up as well in many locations: https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2018/08/lawler-few-hot-ma...

Signs are pointing toward a correction in the home price insanity, hopefully this will make things more affordable for everyone.
Sometimes that is translated as “a lack of training” which is often a euphemism for someone did something stupid and we have to put in place reactionary consequences (training on what not to do) if they or someone else does it again.
To Stankovic, chief of the division of otology and neuro-otology, the problem did not sound idiopathic; she suspected that Behforouz had inadvertently fractured a tiny delicate bone in her middle ear called the malleus.

When she examined the records of Behforouz’s previous hearing tests, Stankovic realized that the results had been misinterpreted. Behforouz didn’t have sensorineural hearing loss — damage to the nerve. Instead, she had conductive hearing loss, a problem with the way sound is transmitted. The difference is important because some forms of conductive hearing loss can be fixed through surgery.

Malleus fractures, which prevent sound from being properly delivered to the middle ear, are rare, Stankovic said, and probably underdiagnosed. She said researchers at Mass Eye and Ear have studied 13 patients with the fracture and “every one had the same story”: sudden hearing loss after what doctors call “digital ma­nipu­la­tion.”

Moisture “provides the perfect pressure seal,” Stankovic said, and force can result in fractures to the bones in the ear, which are the smallest in the body. Behforouz had an additional risk factor: osteoporosis, the bone-thinning disease.

The lesson: keep your fingers out of your ears!
Just lie when asked.

It’s not a crime to lie in a job interview. In fact, it’s one of the best tools jobseekers have at their disposal. As long as you can afford to not get the job, swing for the fensces.
There are established tiny jQuery alternatives:

Zepto: https://github.com/madrobby/zepto

Cash: https://github.com/kenwheeler/cash

How is yours better?
Taiwan has a relatively strong military and while China would easily win any war, it would be crazy to fight it’s military.
Empty hotels?

What happens when Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Uganda, Libya etc. upset the USA? That's in the past decade.

Oh sorry, that's whataboutism. Let me listen more to Americans sanctimoniously rattle on about empty hotels in some remote island caused by another remote country, while the US tortures and bombs the hell out of people all over the world.
True. When I’m looking for a job, I am working with 7 or 8 different companies most of the time.

But if you already know your range. All the steering in the world is not going to convince you to take a lower paying job.

My experience is that recruiters get paid a percentage of your first years salary from the company. They have an incentive to get you a higher wage, but like real estate agents, that incentive isn’t perfectly aligned. (http://freakonomics.com/2008/02/26/real-estate-agents-revisi...)
I think the more general version of this argument is that jobs achievable via recruiters are a fairly small subset of the job market, and you don't have a good sense (as a job-seeker) of how exactly that subset is shaped, so this doesn't actually solve the problem of not having enough information. You now have significantly more information about a subset of the market and no idea what that subset is.

If you were to go trade, say, tech stocks, but you didn't know how profitable the companies were until after you had made a bid, and you decided to solve the incomplete-information problem by working with brokers who were paid by some of the companies, you would be making a mistake by thinking you're now in possession of enough information to make the EMH kick in.
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17787766
> Linux of all varieties still sucks on laptops

Sweeping statements like that are not helpful. The argument is far more nuanced. My wife's MacBookPro sometimes fails to wake from sleep, gets incredibly hot under load and doesn't support my displayport MST monitors, but I wouldn't claim that Mac laptops universally "sucked".