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I think you are spot on about learning management. I spoke with one of my mentors, and he feels I don't know how to manage because I never needed to. So it's a skills gap I have. I'm not really sure I have the time to invest in it at this point. It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg scenario.

I also raised my fees, so that now I will only discuss projects at a minimum of €10K. It definitely helped shift some of the crap :)
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17839329
Rsync solves this - it can transfer only the changed parts. And past versions can be saved as diffs and take very little space.
I agree with your points. I recently reached out to a larger agency. I put to them a very small project, to get a feel of their pricing, process, etc. I estimated it would take me max 5 days. They came back with an estimation of 4 - 5 weeks!! I feel like they just stretched it out to maximise income. They really don't see the bigger picture.
Predation by crooks on each other online is not uncommon. You read of people selling password lists falling for obvious scams.
You miss the point of the article I think:ensuring fairness and equal trwatment for people of all sexual orientations is an old subject matter that should have been done and dusted a long time ago.
Loudly celebrating an overdue Irish catch-up whilst stealing billions in sorely missed public services that would materially and not just symbolically help those same people of all sexual orientations can be understood as a very evil, albeit rainbow-colored, ploy.
”Additionally, the workers are partially compensated via stock options, so they share in the success of the company even if not through higher wages alone.”

I wonder if the constant burnout and churn keeps employees from vesting and thus ever collecting much if anything in stock?
I think they can scale, but they require expertise around managing people, scaling companies, etc. Because I've forever been involved in software development I don't have those skills. At the moment it is fair to say it's a lifestyle company, but it could probably sustain two/three people.
How many software developers do you know who say they don't "work" outside of the office, but then write code at home for personal projects? What is the definition of "work" then? What would happen if you start to let go of the concept of "work" as the bad thing, and expand the argument?

I suggest we instead say using the same parts of your body and mind to the exclusion of the other parts is what is bad for you.

Knowledge workers probably shouldn't spend 6 hours a night learning or coding after an 8 to 10 hour day in the office. Trade job workers probably shouldn't go home and perform more tasks that are physically comparable to their day job without mixing it up.

A construction worker should probably attend night school or study or write code at night. A coder should probably go home and socialize, be active out in the world, or do home renovations etc. A manager probably needs to make time for meditation and non-social activities.
Yes, I've seen it. It's quite neat. On the other hand it seems more complex to implement in hardware.

In the simplest possible design, the cost of vector support in the MRISC32 is essentially the cost of the register file (i.e. the register memory), since the vector control logic just consists of a few adders and flip-flops, and the scalar execution units can be reused for vector operations.
Sorry to be harsh but the author is a naive idiot.
He correctly mentions that 12-week coding boot camps are ubiquitous, so why then did he chose to move to one of the most unaffordable cities in the world? San Francisco is not the only place you can land a programming job. In fact your life as a programmer both in work and outside of work will probably be better in most other cities in the US (or around the world).

I'm a programmer myself and I've worked in the UK and Germany, both in startups and large companies, and I've never known anybody who's worked more than a 40 hour week and certainly don't know any coders who had to live in victorian workhouse style accommodation like this guy did. And many of my colleagues have been self taught with no university degree.
App store rules is a whole different can of worms from the app store tax. I don't claim to agree with the state of either, but all the same the partially overlapping needs of the three parties (user, developer, platform) are difficult to balance and align and I don't believe in any extreme here.
ICT workers have higher disposable income and outbid Irish nationals your counter question should be "oh, like in S.F." or do you disbelieve the effect of ICT work on bay area rents?
Also, after doing some research:

The `multiprocessing.Pool` uses a `multiprocessing.Queue` in the background to retrieve the results after completion.

The `multiprocessing.Queue` in turn uses `multiprocessing.connection.Pipe` and sends the pickled objects over to the wire.

So I don't see how this is any better than ZMQ.

Just because stuff has an API that doesn't look like message passing doesn't mean it can't be doing that in the background. Which is funny, because that's the whole point of ZProc.

I realize the subtle difference that Cpython uses pipes, not sockets, unlike ZMQ. But that doesn't really make a difference now, does it?

Proof:

Process Pool worker, returning the result by using `outqueue.put()`

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/86b89916d1b0a26c1e77f...

multiprocessing Queue, initializing a Pipe

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/86b89916d1b0a26c1e77f...

multiprocessing Queue serializing data to send it using that Pipe

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/86b89916d1b0a26c1e77f...
Also there is a clear point: make the FANGs pay fair taxes.
I frequently use IPython or REPL.it for software development. It's not my main editor, and I don't write large chunks of my code there, but for rapidly prototyping a small subset of some task I find them invaluable.

But you are right about notebooks - I don't find them particularly useful, except as a better REPL, and no-one I know uses them for "normal" (non Data Science) software development.
I think you are right it does come down to trust. It's no different than building a business "partnership" in my mind.

A lot of these projects tend to move very quickly, where I meet the client, spec, price, develop and deliver. It requires a lot of trust to share that with a partner and trust that they can interpret the project.
On the other hand I don’t understand how Apple approved the Amazon Prim and YouTube Apple TV apps. The UX are horrible and I would rather not use them.

edit: added Apple TV
>do it because I have to.

I don't get it. Sorry can you explain
> Bloomberg restricts you to 10 links a month

(Not if you open them in a private window)
It already exists on newish (since 2017) phones and it's called "Facebook App Manager".
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I have a hard time thinking this is a bad thing. While people should be free to study whatever entertains them, I think most of these majors contribute little to making the world a better place or making us better people.

Two exceptions, in theory, are History and Philosophy, because knowledge in these areas has the potential to improve the quality of thought and discourse. However, the views of most people on these subjects seem to be so guided by partisan identities that it's not clear that mere education can overcome that. People refuse to reason well because they want to fit in with their friends and family.
Suggest a usable way. Friendly to people.
I suspect that what you say is true. One thing worth considering though is that on x86_64 you actually use the vector register file for floating point (and it can do integer too!).

On the MRISC32 you have a vector register file with 32 registers that can easily be configured to do scalar operations (integer or floating point) by setting the vector length to 1.
Oh boy, exactly the same happens at my company. Everyone is available and communicating even when on paternity/maternity leave or on vacation somewhere on an island.

Many people see their value directly tied to their career and one of the major ways to make you (feel) important is to be present. It also helps your career since many old companies value presence over other criteria.

I'm three weeks ill now and for the first time, I begin to understand that I've never been detached from work. In the first two weeks I actually became so depressed because I couldn't work. I need to do something, don't know what yet. This is bad for my relationships and for my mental health.
We have all been part of a massive real world experiment that shows a pretty obvious correlation between the introduction of vaccines and the reduction (and even elimination) of associated diseases.

Saying that a relatively small number of people have done the work to prove the effectiveness of vaccination is really disingenuous.

(Also, there's a pretty big difference between doubting an n=50 sociological study and deciding not to believe the very public historical record of global disease patterns.)
I disagree as someone in Mathematics.

Sure you can learn a lot from just the literature but in my experience there is a set of heuristics and common understandings/techniques that are often passed on through instructors or peers you're collaborating with that are absent in textbooks. More importantly, points of emphasis and exigent problems in an era of information deluge often come through only when in regular contact with practitioners and attendance of conferences.

These are thoughts that have crystallized for me over a 4 year period of starting math late in undergrad, struggling through and putting a lot of time into non essential aspects in the process of self study to get up to speed, hitting a road block when attempting to self study graduate level material but ultimately managing upon working in an academic setting.
Well TCP doesn't do collision avoidance, it's a link layer thing. And on Ethernet, it is collision detection on the shared medium. Wireless does avoidance due to the hidden terminal problem.

Neither of these models is really analogous to cars on the road.

But applying collision detection and exponential back off in road traffic is a "fun" thought experiment.

A more apt model would be critical sections and semaphores from concurrent programming. Which is named after a collision avoidance scheme used to control trains. And we all know how difficult concurrent programming can be. I don't want traffic with deadlocks, starvation, busy waiting or live locks.
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Thanks for the reference - I have not heard about the Convex C-Series before so I'll be sure to look it up.

While the MRISC32-A1 does serial vector processing, the idea is that you should be able to do parallel processing with the same ISA, so I'm not certain that masking in that fashion is a good option for the MRISC32. Also, having a vector mask register like the Cray limits the size of the vector registers (e.g. to 32 elements in the MRISC32, or 64 elements in a 64-bit architecture).
Yeah, I hear you about the jupyter-is-for-draft-code. I thought that's how everyone used Jupyter for software dev. I guess this is the MATLAB-style software dev---try something in the REPL, and once you figure out the parameters interactively copy-paste that line/paragraph into your program.

As soon as I have one piece of functionality working as a function, I move the code to the "main" file for the project and import the function into the notebook. This means I never have to write more than a few paragraphs of code in the notebook and instead use it for testing and glue code. I don't think of the notebook as something sharable with others, it's more like WIP code... if I keep the notebook around it's usually because it can end up a useful test harness when code needs to be revisited/updated.

As for global state, one thing that I find really helpful is the keyboard shortcut 00. If you focus anywhere outside of a cell and you press zero twice, this restarts the kernel and you can re-run the commands from the beginning in a "clean state" so what you see matches what is. This approach works well when you're editing the source code that gets imported into the notebook---you never have to worry about re-importing since always restarting from scratch.
Fornite game makers (and a handful) of others have been figting against 'Googles Play Store Tax' and suddenly Google announces this. It’s subtly saying, downloading anything outside of Play Store is dangerous for you.

As indicated in the article this vulnerability has as much to do about ... the way Android's permissions model works...
As a sibling comment noted, it's not a pressure sensor [1] but an induction loop.

The Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_loop#Vehicle_detecti... has fairly extensive details on modern implementation.

[1] These do exist for weight-in-motion systems, however.
The leaders of that company set up a shitty culture that is not going to create an loyalty. It's honestly not surprising that their is a childish banishment mentality after you left.

If a leader feels insulted because a person left it was for the best that person left. That company needs to fire the leaders as it will only end up with a very toxic culture.
>The elephant in the room, when it comes to the social brain hypothesis, is that plenty of herd animals (or school fish) exist in massive groups without needing terribly big brains to cope. Group size and social complexity seem to be somewhat independent.

Herds are a less complicated form of socialization. By contrast humans need to keep track of dozens of interpersonal relationships as a matter of personal survival. If you aren't paying attention, even the biggest toughest strongest man can be undone by 3 or 4 of his rivals banding together and attacking him as one. I'm reminded of one instance I read about several low status chimps all pouncing on an alpha who'd gotten too complacent and castrating him with their teeth, thereby ensuring he was permanently out of the running for leadership. Under such conditions, being clever is not just a nice-to-have - it is a matter of survival.

The frugivore arguement might be totally valid too. As does the "natural" defense arguement - animals that have natural defenses like shells, quills, or other bodily forms of armor and defense tend to be less intelligent than creatures that lack such features. So it stands to reason that humans, as the species with the least equipped with natural defenses, would also be the cleverest of the bunch.

But ultimately we just don't know. All we have is raw speculation.
Yeah you can find singles for 1k, just make sure you get housemates to share the cost of living space and kitchen.
Even in its present state, Jupyter is strictly better than plain REPL, especially if you need visualization. It's like Python in general: it was not designed to write 10-100KLOC programs. Python was designed for scripting. Jupyter was designed for interactive data exploration, and to create a record of results which you can view without re-executing the cells. Is it error prone? Yes. But then so is REPL.
New, disruptive technologies "want" to change society. The problem is people assumed that would happen automatically. What happened instead is that the establishment insisted on keeping society the way it is, and managed to shoehorn the new technologies into the old social molds.

Example: File sharing. This would easily make it possible to give everybody access to all media for free. But artists (and entertainment industry workers) need to be fed, and we apparently don't know how to do this without turning music and videos into a commodity.

I would rather try to solve the general problem: How to feed somebody whose labor is not required by society. But the obvious solutions to this would be unconditional basic income, or communism, or something else people don't like. Instead we invent DRM and pretend digitalization didn't happen.

Another example is cryptocurrency. Instead of bringing upon the anarchocapitalist utopia/apocalypse, it just got regulated to hell in record time.

We (as "hackers" / "tech people") should not blindly believe that disruptive technology will bring upon social change by itself. Instead, people should address the hard social and political problems directly. Don't ask what's the next Uber, Bitcoin, Internet, but rather what's the next Democracy, Capitalism, Enlightenment, ...
80s C64 demos already used compression (both Lempel-Ziv style and Huffman). Suppose the demo had 3 parts. When part 1 was running, part 2 and 3 were present in memory in compressed form (both code and data). When it was time to run part 2, it would be decompressed over the code and data of part 1. etc
I don't know what "conceptually" means on such a level that I can program it. But it probably has something to do with a network of differing representations we have for a hotdog. A low-level visual cortex representation (probably not too much different from artificial NNs). Representation as parts arranged in particular spacial order. A word. Related representations, like a process of making a hotdog. And so on.
If you want the 40 hours and treat like a human not a code producing robot I found the best way is to work as a techie for a none-tech company.

I handle the internal ERP and related software (android terminals, sandblast machines etc)

I get to work on varied problems in multiple languages where my contribution is immediately visible and then go home at 5pm.

It's glorious, I'll give up programming as a career rather than go back to 60hr+ weeks.
That makes some sense. Reminds me also: I wonder if mouth ulcers can happen similarly, which appear after eating less salubrious meats sometimes.
The AI sees data/markers/patterns that look like something it's seen before, as opposed to actually comprehending that it sees a tube of meat that people call a hot dog.

The best metaphor I can think of is the cognitive difference between navigating a transit station that has signs in your native language, and one that you spent a couple of hours learning on Duolingo - with the latter, you aren't really understanding anything, just associating a:b::x:y.
Well this would mean collaboration between autonomous car manufacturers to build a common protocol. And this does not fit with their business model of getting massive investment on the grounds of potentially being the first player on the market.

I don't think there is any possibility of large scale autonomous driving without a shared control infrastructure. Autonomous driving will only work as long as autonomous cars are a small minority.

As soon as they stop being in the minority, some shared control infrastructure is necessary.

Case in point: 4 cars arriving in a no-lights 4 way intersection simultaneously will cause a deadlock. A tie breaking scheme requiring some form of communication is necessary.
My intuition is the same as yours, but I also note that Oracle didn't sue Red Hat over it. This even though they are also among the Linux kernel copyright holders and are one of the most litigious companies known to the tech industry, PR consequences be damned.

So maybe their lawyers disagree with us? Or maybe they're institutionally allergic to being a GPL enforcement plaintiff, even in their own strategic interest.
I think this article represents a small segment of people that can’t manage their finances and/or strive for better living conditions .

Even at with the base rate of $100k/year - which is cheap, you can rent a beautiful $5k/m apartment and split it with a friend. Heck, you can even cook and eat organic only. Use Uber to move around. Even then, at “maximum living conditions” you should be able to save north of $50k/y. There’s countless beautiful Airbnbs at the same price in case you can only rent short-term. Also, you either choose a corporate job or something you love. You can’t work 15h/day on something you don’t love.

All in all, this article it’s halfway BS, halfway poor management of one’s own living conditions and financials
you're right, i didn't include that stuff. I was trying to price it out for someone who is renting a house/apt, but neglected the utilities bit. I actually bought a house here for $20k (in cash from bug bounties) so all I pay for is utilities. This place has an acre of forest and FIOS internet, 3 br and next to the lake. I pay about $300 a month for the services you mentioned, save health care, which I don't pay for at all at the moment.
> Anything with some kind of returns that you can put back into it will exhibit compounding interest

This is only true if you play the market though. Just holding on stock is not a compounding interest rate.

I might be wrong, but that's my impression.

If I buy 1000$ of stock this year and make 10% return. At the end of the year I have 1100$. Now the next year, I need to make 10% off of 1100$ to be compounded and end up with 1210$.

Now if I hold onto my same amount of stock. If I end up with 1210$ the second year, that's not due to compound interest, but simply to good performance in the stock which grew by 21% in two years. Effectively allowing it to grow at an annual return rate of 10%.

To be compounding, I would need to sell my shares after year one. Thus pocket 1100$. And buy 1100$ worth of shares which again would make 10%.

I mean, in effect it's the same. If the shares truly grow by 10% year over year. But the point I'm making is that your ownership in total number of shares does not grow. So if I had 100 shares at 1000$ out of a total of 10000 shares, I still have 100 shares but they are worth more at 1210$.

So as you see, over time, I don't grow at the expense of others in my total ownership. Thus I feel this does not explain how 10% can own 84% of all stocks.

It would be true, if people play the market in a way that, every year, they sell to buy cheaper stocks, thus growing their share count. And it turns out the companies whose share they held prior years all go bust. Then they'd progressively own more and more at an exponential rate.
> addressing someone with grave intellectual disabilities.

Well, I did say I was a drummer!
Although it is a natural state in some way (e.g. parenting, as you mentioned, but also day-to-day survival), the work many of us do today is very different from what we've biologically evolved to do.

Now lots of it is stationary thinking, whereas in the past practically all of it has been mobile gathering, hunting and building (if not just preparing for, and waging a war). Those who can't partake in those activities do other beneficial things. Refine resources, raise and teach children etc.

Is it not so that we humans can sustain better productivity over time in physical work than we can in mental work? It seems to be a fact, that physical activities stimulate mental ones. When you walk outdoors, your mind is more creative than when you sit still inside a building. Is it because of brain getting more oxygen? Is it because of psychological processes inside our brain react to different environments differently? Probably both, and then some.

I think there is more to things like ecopsychology[1] we tend to overlook. And understandably so -- from a profit-seeking perspective plants and animals are perhaps the last thing to seek help from to productivity problems within society, or a company.

It is all too easy to also dismiss it as mere idealistic hippery. I think if we were taught to explore this angle, some things we like to live in denial of would be laughably obvious to us.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecopsychology
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