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> If you can figure out how to achieve the same results with fewer layers of management, or have your management act more efficiently, you'll reap the rewards. So any bullshit managerial position is inherently unstable: as soon as one company figures out they can do without it, it'll vanish from the industry.

On the contrary, what is not stable is your more "efficient" situation, because it is only preferable from the perspective of the employer, and the managers/employees are also free agents. Ok, so you cut all the bullshit and create your efficient paradise. This will only make your managers look good. But you are making life uncomfortable for them by denying them status and future salary negotiation leverage. So they will use their current aura of success to look for a more comfortable place. Unless you pay them more to compensate, but then there goes your "efficiency". For a situation to be stable it has to be in the best interest of all the parties. Otherwise an upstart can explore that dissatisfaction to compete with you -- for example by snatching your star employees.

> We're at pretty close to full employment, which suggests there's plenty of genuine work to be done.

Making this claim in the context of this discussion is bizarre. It's like you are talking past the very thing being discussed.

> Even if we were to run out of productive work (which seems a long way off), surely we can find better things for idle people to do than sitting around and obstructing the productive people.

People are not fungible insects. There is plenty of productive work to be done, but unfortunately the majority of the people do not have the skills to do them. The very point of what is discussed here is that technology replaces the least qualified jobs first. I'm pretty sure that skill sophistication follows a power law. The more qualified a job is, the exponentially less people can do it. The more qualified a job is, the longer it will take for it to be replaced by AI. Nobody has a magic wand that makes full-grown adults useful again.

You want empirical evidence of what I am saying? Remember the excitement around "let's teach everyone to code and they will become app-making entrepreneurs"? How did that go?
Already addressed this. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17870971
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I'm arguing that he's not a rando because the whole premise of this discussion is based on the idea that you (a user) want to use his work. Yes, that does distinguish him apart as the "28 million randos with a GitHub account".

You seem to be arguing that the analogy is bad because there is no check on his behavior, I don't know why this is a necessary condition, but it's not true anyway, there's the same check as in the analogy: reputation. If I deny access to someone to my pool for no reason or a bad reason, my reputation will suffer in the community. It's the same thing in open source. That is why it is often described by people as a community.

I don't think I did understand it poorly. Using a word like "gross" denotes a certain emotion. They also said, "I would rather use non-free software than risk being sued just for being a user." This makes it sound like getting "sued for just being a user", in other words, unreasonably, is likely. All I'm saying is that I don't think that risk is as high as OP is making it seem, especially if you're not a bad neighbor, which I think is a reasonable thing for Zed to expect.
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It is a random string, I just created it with uuid(). Nothing was ever verified. Is minting tokens an official term that has to do with JWT? I thought it was just short-hand for the process I just described.
The word is "modal." Modal view, modal window, modal pop-up. Sometimes implemented by iframes, sometimes just with divs.
> FANG can only hire, what, 10% of all currently-employed engineers

That number is probably growing over time (as the article alludes to).

I mean, just take a look at how many positions Netflix alone is hiring for:

https://jobs.netflix.com/teams/engineering

> Additionally, their hiring processes are notoriously capricious.

Supposedly, this is also changing as their demands are growing and they've had to "lower the bar", so-to-speak.
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You weren't exaggerating! I was curious and had to stop after a little while.

They don't sound like happy people.
I don't think so. Maybe "modal ad"?
No one is saying CRUD developers are not smart. It sure takes intelligence to build good CRUD processes. Each one is a slice of a business process. Goodness knows you can spend many lifetimes doing that, and you would accumulate more and more business process know-how. That’s very valuable, and can be very highly rewarded, especially if you are the only person who understands it well. But like I said your software knowledge would quickly plateau, compared to someone who is building new green field applications that are more broad. This is just my perspective after 25 years of doing both types of work and seeing what effect they each have on your technology skills over a ten+ year period.
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Vision means that you do things in a way that isn't the default. Because if you just do the default you end up like everywhere else (which of course can be a good thing in some cases). The problems in the Bay Area isn't unique by any means. But not dealing with them means that they more and more lose their competitive advantage. Overall they become more like somewhere like e.g. New York.
What do you want to gain from this? How important is compensation?

If you want a full-time job to see how life at a startup compares to a more traditional work environment, four months are not enough. You'd need to stay at least a year or two because only then will you have acquired sufficient responsibility to be in a position where everyone else on your team depends on you and your output and what it means to deal with the pressure of deadlines and so on.

If compensation is not that important or your objective is to work with lots of new technology or build stuff from scratch, offer non-technical entrepreneurs to build their MVP. Depending on your experience level and feature scope you may be able to implement a prototype in four months.
There is a demo. Just click the button and get a website! It generated me this: https://menupit.com/ypguhv The "in one click" is an enticing enough reason to see if it was _really_ one click to get a site. It was, sans editing the menu. With a button I can click and edit things on it. I put "Hello CSEThrowaway" in the banner as the subheading. Not sure if it's publicly available since saving requires me to sign up though.

@OP

This would actually be amazing for the several dozen restaurants near me that don't seem to have any online presence at all - which surely hurts their business as people don't know what is on the menu without going in person. It's dead simple to get up and running and looks nice enough as a default. I'm not sure about the competition in this area (or competition like the easy "build-your-own-sites" like Wix or Square(something)) but at the right cost (subscription model? bandwidth/traffic metered?) this is something I could see businesses going for.

One super major flaw though. Other than creating a header graphic with a logo - there's no way to slap a logo anywhere. Nothing businesses love more than plastering their logo on as many things as they can. ;) I would suggest centered above the "Menu" header would be a great spot, without changing the design in any significant way.
> about:addons is an iframe that includes the addons.mozilla.org website

Only in the "Get Add-ons" section, mind you. Everything else is local.
A giant pile of cash is a pretty compelling reason to set Google as the default. I don't think trust has anything to do with it.
Yup, it's awful here, everyone please leave.

I hear Seattle is the place to be, go there.
Minting tokens specifically refers to JWT-like constructions AKA "[probably-RSA-]signed cookies".

Generating a sufficiently (16-32 bytes) long string of randomness and using just that as a session ID stored in a database is a perfectly fine technique, scales well enough and is quite hard to get wrong.
See also about:telemetry to see if anything enabled. If enabled, they are sending a bunch of information with unique id. Even if disabled, the telemetry is still always being gathered, just not sent.
Hey! Just wanted to let you know that I thought Editfight was something special. I came by occasionally and drew something. Too bad it's gone now -- just a few days ago my 4 year old asked me if he could play the game where you draw something on the screen again. It's a bummer you had to shut it down, but I understand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement

The code name for the data collection/sharing project is "Tempora" and was unveiled in the Snowden leaks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secre...
Firefox will [...] block storage access from third-party tracking content.

Is that an impact on LocalStorage?
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Yuuuuuuuuuuuuup.
If importing from OSM (or Wikipedia) it would seem sensible to only accept content that has remained unedited for the last X hours. If something has been staple for a couple of days, it's probably not outrageous vandalism.

You'll still need some way to deal with ongoing edit wars -- I'd imagine the mapping of Jerusalem to be prickly, for example. But at least you can tell that content is dangerous and direct your human review in that direction.
Java is already suitable for game development, specially with LibGDX.

Not everyone needs to try to write the next Crisis in it.

It certainly has higher performace than all those HTML 5 and Flash games.

The biggest problem is that jMonkey is the only RAD tooling available and no match against any of engines that make use of C#.
There is a Danish book that adresses the issue, but they pick a different term, opting to call it pseudo work instead. The title of the book is: Pseudoarbejde.

It's not that the jobs are bullshit, or just plain boring, it that they don't need to be done, at all. One of the authors originally didn't believe in the idea, arguing that the jobs where valuable, because someone actually wanted to pay others to do them.

They have en example of a company that figured that if work fills the time allocated to it, then just allocate less time. They saved a ton of time reducing meeting to default 20 minutes. There where several other steps of cause, but they now have a four day work week.

There's also an example from a Danish hospital, where a doctor is required to check if a patient has fallen within the last 14 days, because the hospital had issues where patients had fallen and no one notice. The kicker is that the doctor only does screening for breast cancer, there's no point in asking if an woman who is only in for a screen if she's fallen on the way to the hospital.

A private company wanted a professional done yearly report, every year, requiring around three months of work in total. They wanted it, because everyone has one. It's 50 to 75 pages, which no one else had time to read, so they have another person to read it and cut it done to 10 pages.

So no, it may not be bullshit jobs, they are highly paid jobs, performed by highly educated people. It's just that it's not contributing to the end product of an organisation.
Not everyone can afford to live in the city center or is able to freely move to be next to their job.
That's good. Prevents your customers getting fake products if you, as a seller, don't intent to. (Excluding warehousing mistakes, etc).

This way a reputation system is more effective.
> But Mozilla trusts Google more than any search engine provider. That would be the only explanation for Google being the default search engine.

The real explanation doesn't have anything to do with trust: Google pays Mozilla a lot of money to be the default search engine on Firefox. Deals like that are Mozilla's main source of revenue.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/googles-back-its-firefoxs-defa...
I think a lack of value types also hurts Java significantly here. Though I believe they're also on the roadmap.
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I am also interested in points on the sphere.

I was thinking about using a projection based on mapping a square to an octahedron (along the general pattern of the “quincuncial projection”, but perhaps preserving areas).

However, the topology on the square is not a torus formed by associating opposite sides (as in your pattern) but instead has the two halves of each side of the square folded onto each-other. I suspect the points in the sequence won’t be quite as well distributed near those seams.
The YouTube experience is way worse for me in Firefox than in Chrome. Many times, after seeking inside a video 3 or 4 times, it just stops working. This never happens in Chrome.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but seeing this so often...
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From das Wiki: "Tempest will be able to fly unmanned, and use swarming technology to control drones. It will incorporate artificial intelligence deep learning and possess directed-energy weapons.[7][8]"

Really? We can't even get self driving cars right and BAE thinks we can have a fighter with lasers that controls a swarm of drones? Going to be an epic letdown when it first rolls off the line.
You can put a JWT in a cookie :V
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I think you are making some of the same mistakes as the author of the piece you linked to. You are not understanding the context of the whole test, nor are you reading all of the pilot's observations.

Look at what the pilot says about pitch rate, and I'll pick out the part that makes all the difference. Brackets and emphasis mine:

"Insufficient pitch rate exacerbated the lack of EM. Energy deficit to the bandit would increase over time. Therefore there were multiple occasions where it would have been tactically sound to accept excessive energy loss in order to achieve a fleeting WEZ. [Weapon Engagement Zone]. The CLAW [Control Law] prevented such shot opportunities (and hindered defeating shots)."

In other words, the control laws prevented him from doing what he wanted. But, as he knows, because he's helped develop the aircraft, the control laws are trying to be conservative. Therefore, in his conclusions and recommendations, he says:

"Consider increasing alpha onset." and "Consider increasing pilot yaw rate control authority".

These fixes were put in the CLAW really quickly.

As for your jab about "pilots themselves aren't qualified to criticize the program either", well, look, the reporter didn't do his due diligence. You can criticize anything you like, but when you don't do the work to make your criticisms informed by relevant experience and knowledge, you're just another guy with an opinion and a blog.
>For some people, the truly exciting work is the work where none of this stuff has been proceduralized. It's not feasible to train or do knowledge transfer between two shifts for these projects.

This is true, but this is really question about compensation, not work time. Executives are basically always on call but they get executive pay.

If you are not well compensated for doing the work that can't be replaced, you are being exploited.
This is why I am highly skeptical every time there's a bill/referendum/whatever to increase the education budget. It's not that I don't care about children and their education; it's that I doubt much of that money will get anywhere near where it needs to go.
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Modals or modal windows.

Case in point: https://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/99ljrr/research...
"once I know the contact, you provide no value added service" isn't that the case for every job board ?

Not trying to target open source projects at all here
There is a PDF "fact sheet" explanation here: https://www.lego.com/r/www/r/portals/-/media/themes/technic/...

It says that the car is not built entirely from LEGO parts: there is a steel frame, axles, and many other non-LEGO things in it.
I have only heard about it in the context of Fintech, where they keep all transaction data around.

At least they seem to be Azul´s biggest customer base.
Plenty of people on HN take the position that private companies should deny their platform to unsavory voices, and this position has its own spectrum of views about where those lines can/should be drawn.
Yes, that's what I started to do. Unfortunately a lot of time was wasted cause it was always, just one more day, just this week, just till that other guy transfers to a new team, I kept thinking I'd finally get to work but just kept getting pushed back.
It gets easier with each one.

I think the secret is to expose the person to multiple languages at a very early age.

Its like having kids: the first is an impossible leap, the second is much harder than anticipated, the third gets easier and after the fourth its just a big mass.
TBF, it does have 'titan' in the name.
How to people usually get around file downloads and initial page loads with JWTs (besides signed urls), since you can't control and preempt these requests to also send the JWT?
Unless it was written down, it's human pre-history.
The thing that tipped it over for me was the Multi-Container Tabs[0] Mozilla extension. Aside from being a fantastic privacy and security tool, it is also wonderful for development.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
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Oh... they're just now cutting corners? I think the problem may have been they added too many stupid corners to begin with.
Crazy!

And Google has password collection all over the place. Admittedly, I use it for basic things I do not want to be hassled about. Now I wonder how many of the "no, do not save" ones are actually saved!
If you're not a person who's spent much time with legos, it might be hard to grasp why this is considered an "engineering feat". LEGO is a system of modular building after all, right?

However, the kind of weight that 1,000,000 Legos is (in this case, north of 3,300 pounds) means that they had to use pieces, none of which (I believe) exceed 8" in length, to form the support structure of this vehicle. I would _love_ to see the "chassis" of this thing. Probably some gigantic rail structures holding it all together.
The prohibition of ecstasy makes me furious given the
has caused how many millions to suffer needlessly for generations? And this in addition to the sheer obliviousness of starting the war on Drugs after Prohibition showed what happens when you try to do so.
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Shouldn't the question be: How will lobbyists shape laws around Facial Recognition? Perhaps I am too cynical. I will just drop in one of my favorite quotes.

“There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.” -- George W. Bush.
Take a look at this paper[1] for actual data on different cities respond to demand (table VI). Bay Area cities are all in the top 10 of least elastic, but there are a number of other cities with a similar level (the authors specifically call out NYC, Boston, and LA as examples of low elasticities translating into higher prices).

[1] http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Economics/Faculty/Matthew_T...
Or just sell both form factors. Even if they sold a USB-C version, though, it's not really useless for all of us poor schmucks who are using Macbooks with only two ports.
And I counter that with my personal experience because I've been at this job long enough that I notice things that are really, really distracting me from doing my job. Like:

- sitting in a hot, airless room will drop my productivity to much less than half; I'll be spending most of the day angry and trying to fight sleepiness

- a computer that can barely run a browser and an IDE at the same time will operate slower than I think, and will introduce distractions and annoyance every time I have to wait 15 seconds for the page to reload

- having just one display is bearable (I'm used to it), but having two significantly cuts down on switching between programs, removing those small delays add up over the day (incidentally, adding a third display is marginal for me; I find myself not using it very much - I usually dock IMs and project logs there)

Few years ago I actually had all three issues simultaneously at the same company. I complained until they were resolved, and only then I started to feel that it's me who's the limiting factor in my productivity. As it should be.
In the USA, if you do have a specialisation you can profit from then you're middle class pronto but if something happens with you, if you get unemployed or drama in your life you are toast. EU is less risk/less reward, and that contradicts a startup culture at its core which is high risk/high reward. However that doesn't mean EU has no risk/reward or effort/reward; it has.

That friend from DK likely has rather opposite values of Trump's and is afraid for a society where approx 50% of the people would vote for Trump. But if you look into it, and speak to Trump voters, that's when you start to develop sympathy and empathy for their background, stories, and reasoning. Its important to listen to people, and try to understand them. We can learn so much from that, but it requires patience, time/effort, and getting out of your bubble. I've seen a very good TV series on this subject [1] by an American-born American-Dutch (Jewish, Czech) presentator Eva Jinek but it is unfortunately with Dutch voiceover/subs.

I come up today with another reason (healthcare example) of why I would prefer EU over US [2]. Examples like these I stumble upon every once in a while, and they make the comparison more and more difficult; not easier. Because income is tangible, but these examples are not.

[1] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Verenigde_Staten_van_Eva

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17877651
"...But the question we need to ask ourselves here is not whether such behaviors (or the cover-ups of such behaviors) are outrageous, but rather why we have become such insatiable consumers of these outrages? What does it cost us?..."

Exactly. There are four billion people on the planet. We are all connected instantaneously. If there isn't something happening every minute that's completely disgusting and outrageous, the species isn't diverse enough. The question is why we want it delivered into our day-to-day emotional lives -- and who is benefiting from having that kind of transfer happen.

No matter how bad something is, we can accept that it's bad, decide on measures to take (sometimes drastic measures) and continue on with our lives. Humans have lived their entire evolutionary existence like this. War over in Europe? Bombing of Pearl Harbor? I guess we may have to send millions off to war. A lot of people we know are going to die.

It's only when we get the direct, back-and-forth, highly-charged emotional interaction that we become more-and-more angry, make irrational choices. We try to up one another with displays of our outrage and pain. Become unhappy and emotionally unstable. Then, guess what? We can share that emotional state with millions of others through the net!

My advice to people who are beginning to wake up to this, but still want to know what the current political discussions are? Read well-constructed opinion columns. Good ones are required to have thesis and supporting arguments. So you get bias, facts, and a look at somebody's reasoning. I scan opinion columns from all sides of the political debates. I find I lose about 24 hours on learning what current events are. And I'm okay with that trade-off. A serial killer 1500 miles away doesn't require me to gear up and go out with a SWAT team. It can wait. 99% of this can wait.