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Really flattered by all the responses, did not expect it. I currently live in Hong Kong. You can reach me here - spencer @ terminal1.co

For blogging, I prefer interjecting my thoughts into existing conversations rather than starting them, so I don't write my own blog pieces that often. But I would be happy to receive emails with questions, encouragement, or further discussion.

If I do write something related to Asian American issues, I can add you to a simple mailing list - just let me know you'd like that, although don't expect to receive much content.
> To phase this more accurately, the second CHILD is on their own. The first child, under your scheme, is educated and receives health benefits. The second child will receive no education and will have to suffer from any health ailments that they receive.

The current status quo is bad for our society. Someone mentioned that we need means-testing as a compromise between no social safety net and a social safety net for all regardless of income. What I am proposing is a radical heartless turn that creates two classes of people: the first-born.

I would like to remind you that a one-child policy is NOT my first preference. The whole thing goes away if we accept that we need to pay our share for the welfare of our children. Ideally, it won't come to this but if it does, I have faith that we will survive a shrinkage in population. It is the right thing to do (given the hand we are dealt).
>Wouldn't it be technically illegal to discriminate against disabled without a bona fide reason?

It's really easy to make up a reason. "Not a good culture fit" and so on.
This is OK if you can guarantee 100% separation of concerns, but the news reports where hackers were able to take over control systems in the car through bugs in the entertainment system should be a huge note of caution.
I'm with you. If they were doing the same thing but without the labeling, it'd be much creepier in practice but much harder to notice. This is definitely better.
They also clearly say they work for Amazon in their titles and descriptions.
I have seen more than my fair share of build failures from missing or extra commas. Worse, they have odd behavior in some languages.

That said, I cede that they are different. I just don't get the hate of parens.
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> I'm not really seeing the downside of arbitrage.

The downside is that you're failing to do the thing you set out to do. In theory the rich person (say $1,000,000 in income) places a high value on their time, so you impose a higher fine on them (say $20,000) to try to deter them. But the Uber driver only makes $20,000 total, so the fine for them is only $400. Meanwhile a middle class person making $50,000 pays $1000 -- 2.5X what the rich person incurs (assuming the fine the Uber driver pays is amortized over the fares).

> Do you have a better example?

Name basically anything that incurs a fine. A rich person who wants to do it and is "deterred" by the high fine just hires a poor person to do it for them. This is often what they do anyway because it saves them the labor independent of lowering the fine.

> I doubt people driving as a business are all that eager to lose their license.

But that has nothing to do with the fine, it's a separate penalty which doesn't exist in most other categories, apparently isn't sufficient (everybody speeds anyway), and the incentives of the driver and passenger are already aligned. They both want to get there faster, the passenger to save time, the driver so they can get another fare sooner.
Previous discussion (same tweets, different news article):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17831943
There's a mix of being over-cautious and buying all the things you were ever deprived. But really it means that I don't really fit in socially. Really the only people I tend to enjoy for long periods of time were others who came from a poor background but have found success.
Should that be interpreted as Amazon customer service, public relations, marketing, management, warehouse workers, warehouse marketing, warehouse public relations, warehouse management or another department?
Wow this is a tremendously bad look.
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Maybe all of the contractual obligations for existing products were not a good idea
You could just ignore reviews posted by people named Amazon Ambassador Pete, like these are clearly labeled.
butt clenching

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/buttock-clenching
Mostly self-taught: BASIC/ASM on a C64 using the Programmer's Reference and Compute!'s Gazette. Taught myself C on a Mac Plus by writing a game over winter break during my first year at university.

There's so much documentation available now (more than was available years ago) for so many open-source and free resources out there.

For me, though, the biggest assist to really learning something is having a project. Whether it's at my employer or a personal thing, a project drives me much better to learn something than documentation alone.
this stuff is fascinating to me too, thanks for sharing.
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When autocorrect meets "buttock-clenching", I'd guess.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

Agreed, and I flagged the article (please do so, so that the mods see it).
Then you're married to mapped drives like that and anyone you share with has trouble syncing files unless they're using the same trick. I also managed to create path structures that crashed the OneDrive client when I was testing that.

Eventually I settled on abbreviating company names and putting OneDrive in C:\OD, so:

C:\OD\OneDrive - RGSS\Shared Folder\

Not great, but better. Then when you share files and someone else syncs, they get:

C:\OD\RGSS\Rumpelstiltskin - Shared Folder\

And it all goes to hell again. Lol. The base path length's are reasonably close though and seems to work ok.
You're making the same mistake I did. Unfortunately something that's easy to gloss over is that these PDFs are broken up into groups that seem somewhat arbitrary, making comparison and extrapolation difficult. For instance the one you're mentioning is only for cases in federal district courts which is a very different demographic than arrestees at large. Similarly, my original source only was considering state level felony offenses (though that makes the 77% ending up released even more remarkable, but that 77% was not exclusively for no financial condition).

I'm trying to find a more comprehensive article containing data across both misdemeanors/felonies and state/federal courts, but running up short. Their data seems to be heavily segmented in not so useful ways. If you find something along these lines I'd very much appreciate if you'd ping it regardless of its direct relevance.
> How this works is that a poor woman from a bad neighborhood in her teens is happy if the guy doesn't beat her, isn't a substance abuser and has a job at all. Then she gets an education and her expectations change. Of course, he won't be a substance abuse. Of course, he won't beat her. He also should have a professional job, dress well, and have certain other appealing traits. Her expectations go way, way up.

Wait, so in your (incredibly patronizing) scenario, the ideal outcome is this hypothetical woman ends up with a man who she just really hopes doesn't abuse her? All so she can take advantage of a fertility window that won't materially change for another decade?

I will always support more flexible access to education, but arguing this is somehow the best way for everyone is a really weird take on things.

> It's an overwhelmingly male forum. The issues involved in waiting to have kids that so many women find agonizing are being trivialized. I'm being attacked and dismissed. The basis for my knowledge is being attacked as irrelevant. Etc.

> Y'all have fun as men hashing out how women ought to view this issue.

Ah yes, a male-dominated system where women are told by men what they should be thinking. I feel like there's a word for for that.
Thread in a easier to read form: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1032939617404645376.html
I can be flexible on natural twins. Ideally, I do not want a one-child policy. The main point of contention is funding. How many natural twins are there and how does it affect funding?

basically, this is a ponzi scheme and our only way it is sustainable is a massive burst in productivity (I don't know how, will have to figure it out as we go).
Wow,
The most revealing thing, I think, is the lack of central server security. Sounds like it wouldn’t take almost any effor to MitM a Tesla car.
So, after separating from company, you can release all proprietary information and you'd have limited liability? I thought there would be larger recourse. Not familiar with law though.
Wrt agile not scaling because of 3rd parties you don't control, would you attribute that more to unwillingness or inability of third parties like security to collaborate?
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I'm not sure of your life exeriences but as a soon 40 year old I would have enough nightmare stuff to severely mentally handicap me unless I had some way of coping with it.

There are some things I have to work hard to properly remember. I'm not sure this difficulty remains productive after the initial phase of emotional reactivity.
I seem to recall being told at one point while interning there that you couldn't get on the management track within Tivoli with less than 5 patents to your name.

I was always super jealous of the patent plaques people would have made and hang in their office when one got approved.
This is sometimes referred to as "assortive mating". In the 1970s, a male executive was more likely to marry his secretary and a male doctor was more likely to marry a nurse, and nobody would think that unusual. Culturally we have shifted away from those norms and nowadays the executive marries another executive or white collar professional and the doctor marries another doctor. This reinforces inequality in many ways (income, culture, parental education and involvement.) There don't seem to be any clear answers for how to address the implications of this trend.
It's so weird to see the same bizarre hacky nonsense I would cobble together being used to run cars.
Sure. Downvote me too. But nobody comes with a counter argument aka 'don't want to hear the truth'
> The lawsuit alleges that border agents took a copy of the data on her smartphone and failed to say whether it had been deleted.

This seems like it's remarkably hard to know. I suppose this may hinge on which model of the iphone she had.
SharePoint integration is a shit show? I've never seen a SharePoint setup that isn't a shitshow, the enterprise SaaS we work with even use it as their help desk it's comically disasterous.
I used to dislike "rich kids." What worked for me is to look inside and ask myself exactly why I don't like them.

It turns out that, at least for me, there isn't any valid reason. It boils down to me being upset at their 1) privilege, or 2) difference.

I was upset that they had privileges that I didn't. But was that their fault? Not really. We can't really fault individuals for having advantages in life---indeed, my intellect and work ethics are also things I were born with.

I was upset that they are different from me. Put into words, this sounds mean and petty, but that's really the root of much hate. They eat differently, wear differently, play differently. But being different is certainly not wrong! If I hate on rich kids for being different, that's just pure bigotry, no more no less.

So I try to judge "rick kids" just like I do everyone else. Do they treat others nicely? Do they elevate people around them? And despite the stereotype, I've found that many rich kids are just as nice. Indeed, I certainly plan to raise my kids, who are born wealthy, to grow up as nice people.
One thing's for sure, they definitely aren't trying to win any design awards.
Training developers in is super valuable. Sounds like that is the lynchpin for the rest of the process.
Anything short of enthusiastically agreeing with Trump someone will accuse you of being the reason Trump was elected. In one ear and out the other.
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Cool idea.

Is there one of these for React?
Digium used to host the local Linux Users of North Alabama meetings back in 1999 when they were Linux Support Services. I remember being blown away seeing Asterisk running on commodity hardware. They had all kinds of cool hardware hacks in their office. Kudos to them for revolutionizing the PBX space.
Presumably the kind of disability that makes it difficult for you to work remote jobs.
At DEF CON 23 there were two car-hacking talks that made an impression on me: one about hacking a Tesla [1] and one about hacking a Jeep [2]. FWIW, I came away thinking that the software architecture of the Tesla was light-years ahead of what Jeep (and presumably many other legacy manufacturers) was shipping:

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX_0c9R4Fng

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OobLb1McxnI
The herd is real though, and it's often headed in bad directions. Content-based sites should be server-rendered.
> If you don't have kids, you don't create taxpayers, and then society can't pay.

I don't for one second believe that we don't have the funds. This isn't about money. This is about priorities. What do we prioritize as a society?
Do you have evidence that the breakdown of technical violations vs new crime is different across different segments?
I know about apollo caching, but it's strictly inferior to HTTP caching which has tons of options (Vary, Etag, etc)

Caching per user is still going to mean tons of cache misses. Caching based on the query hash means you're going to cache subsets of the same data over and over as separate entries.

With resources over HTTP, you can separate the user specific part from the generic resource part and cache accordingly.

Plus, I like the option of caching somewhere else than the app server, like a distributed Varnish.

I'm not saying you can't cache with graphQL, it's just less natural and mature.
well it's interesting because it gives an insight for those of us who aren't there how things actually work.

Musk fan or not, you can't deny this has no interest
In a, perhaps hypocritical, way I would find this preferable to some of the Tesla stories where a buyer can't use their car for months on end while parts are sourced and the car is repaired by a "certified" shop.

I find it far preferable to the car manufacturer shutting you out of your car entirely via a remote call.
Author here. I did mention part of this in the blog post:

> The study also found some alternative scanning patterns such as layer-cake pattern, spotted pattern, marking pattern, bypassing pattern, and commitment pattern.

> It’s important to note that F-pattern is [negative for users](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/f-shaped-pattern-reading-we...), but good content design can help prevent F-shape scanning.
Absolutely. I recently moved from a company that viewed IT and information security as cost centers to one that views them as core business components, and the culture (and competence) difference is very refreshing.
In hindsight, Windows 8 wasn't that bad overall. The real disaster was the Metro UI, but the underlying OS was relatively unobtrusive and a bit more performant than Win7.

Once something like Classic Shell was installed, it was pretty slick and reliable.

My last Windows machine now runs 10 begrudgingly, and compared to my daily drivers MacOS and Ubuntu, it's a shockingly inconsistent operating system. I don't rely on it for "real work" thankfully.
> The economy is fueled by population. Any decrease in the US birth rate will be more than compensated for by increased immigration.

I am all for mooching on the rest of the world if that is what it takes. The immigrants will be subject to the same one-child policy though. No exceptions*

* I think there is appetite for an exception for natural twins based on replies here. We will need to see how it holds up in practice.
I hope so, I think there's some valid arguments that forms of technology have stagnated (flying cars is not one of them). All power to medical progress though!!
The negative effects affecting the descendants of slaves can be traced back to being caused by the act of war that was abducting slaves in the first place. Absent any such abnormal occurrences, the bigots and intolerants could have lived a mostly peaceful existence in their non-diversified environment. As I said, it’s the combination of diversity and bigots/intolerants that makes a problem, not any one of them in isolation. One could well argue that it’s the very historical importing of slaves into the U.S. that is the cause of poor race relations today, just as much as it is caused by racists. If integration of the two cultures had been allowed to happen slowly and naturally by individual migration, a different situation might have developed.
How do you feel about paying higher taxes?
They've been going 100mph for years now. It doesn't come as a surprise to me that they haven't gone back and made it pretty.

While not even remotely on the same scale, I just spent 3 weeks building an app as fast as possible because my client's old one was causing 75% of their support calls. The code isn't pretty, but it works and it works a lot better than the old one. I know deep down that code is going to stay ugly for a while but that isn't what's important right now.
There are jobs where employers actively try to support disabled employees, and there are jobs that will grumblingly provide the bare minimum legally required by the ADA and then find some pretext to fire you (or to not hire you in the first place, if you admit your disability during the interview).

It's valuable to let companies in the first category identify themselves.
That's false. I disagree with Trump all the time, nobody ever told me I was the reason he got reelected.
> the rockets fly with a heavily customized Linux install

My jaw hit the floor the first time I heard this. Why Linux instead of an RTOS?? Apparently Tesla's autopilot also runs Linux, which seems like a huge accident waiting to happen (pun intended).
We should be incentivizing men to take a much larger stake in raising children, so that neither gender has to sacrifice their career or their ability to raise their children. Marriage is clearly not a strong enough incentive.
It's good they're transparent, but are you arguing that whatever the reps say is inherently truthful because Amazon is transparent about their role?

I don't consider paid statements to be a good indicator of anything except that Amazon is trying out different PR tactics.
Well said, though I think the GP (and many others) blames the platform, not the language.

I find C# and .NET runtime (before it meets windows) quite nice. I'm not a big C#-er myself though.
I'm not going to disagree with you, because what you say is spot on.

What I am going to do is point out that hey, maybe there are people out there that troll just to troll or troll for a particular cause, and there's a lot of them. When you have a few different sides that are generally isolated from each other and already struggling to have a conversation and throw trolls and paid trolls (astroturfing) onto the same platform, you don't have a platform that is conducive to these various sides having any kind of conversation because there are groups of people that are actively working to prevent this. It doesn't even take a very strong push to keep them apart either, they were already inclined to isolate themselves in meatspace, why would cyberspace be any different?

Facebook has more than a quarter of the Earth's population on their platform. Undoubtedly this is a hard problem to solve. An authoritarian approach is probably what they are going to end up having to go with because they're not a country or a religion, they're a bloody online advertising company.
On one hand, I agree that there is something about the "biologically wired implicit grammar processor". I would view it more along the lines "if you state your problem in a way we are used to talk abou it, you will find your solution easier." I suspect this is the reason, why even my parents, that are mostly economists, like SQL whith its faux-english, but I wouldn't try to teach them relational algebra :-)

On the other hand, I am not sure functional programming is so far out of bounds of normal people.

Annecdotaly, when I was learning programming, in an after-school club, when ~12, I remember my teacher (a college student) complaining, how hard was it for me and other students to comprehend a statement like "i = i + 1". I think the language was Basic. I suspect that if we have been taught something more functional, we might not even encounter this :-)

I am actually not sure why we had problems with this. Maybe because we already were solving equations in school, and "i = i + i" is looks like "0 = 1" nonsense. Maybe the self-reference tripped us up, and recursion would trip us the same or worse. Maybe the = sign was the problem, where it means sometimes equality check and sometimes value assignment.
Especially when there's no guarantee that the next generation won't revert to poverty through no fault of their own. Or the generation after that one.
You probably won't have too many problems, Google and friends have had a long running project to get the kernel to compile with clang.

Unfortunately, they're not done yet. A guy I bumped into at a Linux kernel conference once said that their main issue is that some people within the kernel project want to keep GCC as the only way to compile the kernel.
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What are the penalties for violating this?

I feel like this is something that doesn't get taken seriously, as I see it violated a lot by companies of all sizes using influencers as a marketing/product awareness strategy. Especially with things like sponsored blog posts, Tweets, and Youtube reviews.
If your QA is only doing inspections, they're only doing a fraction of the job. Rejecting the work and performing rework or starting over does not address the causal factors in the system of the rejection in the first place.

You will always have some product that needs to be reworked or rejected. The goal is to ensure quality at every stage in order to reduce the amount of rework. You don't want to go the way of the old US car companies who had to suffer major setbacks in the market because they were spending gross amounts of time reworking defective cars before they could ship them. I do not have a copy of it in front of me, but one of Womack's books had some numbers. Double digit percentage of time for a car's production was spent reworking the car after it had been made to make it suitable for sale.

Now, a premise of Agile (and Lean) is to improve the feedback loop. This is where testing and other inspections come into play. By doing them more often (run unit tests on check in, reject if any formerly passing tests start failing, for instance) you can address some quality concerns earlier.

But you still have to address the cause of the rejections. If Stage 10 of production consistently requires rework, it's great that you're catching, addressing, and doing the rework right then. At least it's better than after Stage 20. But management has to work with QA to not just inspect and accept/reject, they have to address the systemic causes of the failure.
Banks can reverse transactions if they want to. Tesla's cavalier attitude towards manufacturing has yielded a 14% first pass through rate on the Model 3 line (which is abysmal and may bankrupt the company along with declining M3 demand) vs. the industry standard of ~80% FPT rate.

Source - https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-hit-model-3-target-by-...

We're at the point in the Tesla story similar to that of 2008 where Dr. Berry et el were watching the housing market collapse around them and the banks wouldn't re-price the swaps. Tesla is already bankrupt, most people don't know this yet. But they will.
You are correct sir or madam! I’m leaving it though, I like the sound of it.