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A company doing X has as its main goal not being good at doing X, but making profit.

This is the essence, and reason why companies need a hierarchy of managers: the owners are at the top, their instructions (make us profit) are delegated down, then profit goes back up. The people in charge are not there because they are experts at doing X. They are there because they are experts at making sure profits go to the top.

All bullsh*t jobs and most inefficiencies can be traced back to people not caring enough about doing X. Because that is not what the company is about, its about making profit.
none, but I hardly ever encounter them in C++ too since I always develop in debug mode with sanitizers and debug std containers, so they blow up immediately. In C that's another story...
All the other comments are very nice-looking hiring offers, which is awesome.

But so far nobody's expressed interest in the interpreter for the old language. What language was it? I'm very curious!
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Such incompetent manager (let's call him manager A) is in turn a part of his manager (one level above, let's call him B) "empire". B admitting that A's department is incompetent and is actually not doing much, and thus could really be disbanded, is not in B's interest, as it would shrink the size of his empire.
The idea is to manage your company so that you generate profits at 2000 customers. At that point you have several options:

- Be happy with cash piling up in the bank, and redistribute it to employee/investors/founders.

- Lower the churn.

- Increase your ARPU.

- Use the profits to create anew product/offering that generates new growth.
Yes, the new Bullshit Jobs book says:

“Final Working Definition: a bullshit job is a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence even though, as part of the conditions of employment, the employee feels obliged to pretend that this is not the case.”

“The attentive reader may have noticed one remaining ambiguity. The definition is mainly subjective.”

Then goes on to explain that many cases are obvious: like if an office worker's spending 80% of her time making cat memes. But even in more complicated cases, you're likeliest to know best. (Not managers. The higher up you are, the more people have reasons to hide things from you.) After a couple years at the same company, normally people will learn enough of the company's secrets.
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You can try the one of these sites for that:

https://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/search?query=love

http://www.color-hex.com/color-palettes/?keyword=love

There are some other sites that do similar searches as well, just can't remember them off the top of my head :)
$50 for a U2F-only Google-branded Feitian key? What's their markup on it, 400%?

It could be worth that much if they would guarantee 100% of the components and supply-chain to be secure and verified, but I doubt that's the case (especially after seeing their Pixel 2XL Q&A fiasco). If I remember right from their announcement they mostly just used their own firmware on Feitian's hardware, so hardware backdoors could still be a possibility.
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> Whereas the closest the Mac got, a ‘toy’ OS that couldn’t be used for Real Work was Clarus the Dogcow.

Hang on now lets not forget the leather Calendar app, the reel to reel Podcasts app and flying through space in Time Machine.
This may be an unpopular opinion but I don't believe BS jobs are prevalent in the private sector. Of course, bureaucracy exists, but that is hardly a new thing. There are outliers, but this is far from the pandemic presented here.

Some of the arguments I keep hearing:

1/ I don't understand why X exists and therefore X must be a BS job. In the parent article, we read a premise that "someone invented a procedure", but the author jumps into conclusion without really understanding why are employees not allowed to bring whatever chair they wish to the office. Then he jumps to another conclusion, that nobody really cares because his psychiatrist note is usually accepted. As a manager, if my subordinate asks for a special chair, I will ask him to get a doctor's note, to see if he is serious or just bored, and to prevent all his colleagues from wanting a special chair the next day.

2/ "There is less and less actual work to be done due to technological progress." If this was true, there would be unemployment, not BS jobs.

3/ "There are economic incentives to create larger and larger organizations." True and totally unrelated. What is the argument?

4/ "Managers like to have large teams." True, and economic forces push against that. This does not explain the apparent pandemic of BS jobs (that I don't see anywhere).

etc.

If you won't mind, I will try some anecdotal evidence and jumping to conclusions myself:

5/ I have not seen many - if any - BS jobs in my IT career. Sure, it would be great to reduce state regulation but the guy in my company responsible for compliance is not doing a BS job.

6/ Automation and technology saved us from slaving in the fields and sweatshops. Driving a truck full of confectionery across the US is pretty much a BS job if you ask me. Same as "Shirley, make me 5 copies of this contract before the lunch" - on a typewriter.

7/ BS jobs pandemics is nothing else but a variation of the "Grass was greener when I was young". Developed countries (maybe with the exception of the US) have safer environments than ever, more disposable income than ever and people live longer than ever.
You're likely seeing a lot of the build tooling. Things to convert (from Typescript/etc to plain JS), bundle (optimised files for prod) and run the dev environment (static file serving, possibly from memory and not disk, not sure off the top of my head).
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Not sure I quite agree with this - Scotland for example is facing problems in a number of non-urban areas due to growing tourism.
That's per month... In just 9 months Glacier becomes more expensive than a physical SATA drive(s) of equal capacity. The longer you keep the data, the more it skews against "the cloud".

I'm definitely not claiming to have all the answers here but there are points where tiering your storage strategy to get it onto something stable and without running costs makes sense.
Nope. Nope nope nope.

There's a great deal of difference, and it hinges on time.

If your plan for visiting is "get the cheapest one-day return flight from Wherever, binge drink all night with your buddies, retch it up en route to airport and sleep on the return flight," all you care about is the cheap booze - literally nothing else matters (yes, this is a significant set of tourists around here).

Then you get the other tourists who actually come for something else spend money in addition to using the infrastructure. That is normal, albeit with major scaling problems (there's the issue - "don't have enough space to put all the tourists coming to see the Major Must-See Sights, as those aren't inflatable"). Those care about the appearance NOW ("people retching on public transport? How revolting!").

And then you get the normal city traffic - with locals, expats, and whoever else actually lives here. And those care about quality of life in long term ("what good is public transport, if it efficiently gets you into a city center that's devoid of actual life, only with a disneylandesque imitation? Will I want to live in such city in 5 years? What do I want to change?").

In other words, the longer you're planning to visit, the more probable it is that you'll be nicer about it, because you'll be expecting similar behavior in return. If you just pass through: eh well, break that window, piss in the street, kick that dog - not likely anyone will catch you within the remaining four hours. Note that this doesn't have any relation to whence the tourists are coming - the behavior correlates very closely with the length of the stay, be it an just-out-of-town sports team (common) or a stag party from the UK (also common).
These are not terms of use but laws.
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Reminds me significantly of (and probably draws inspiration from) "The Gervais Principle"[1]

[1] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
I find this rather distracting than helpful. At least in terms of enhancing my abilities. Because my brain does this pretty good already without images "in the way" to catching objects.

But it might indeed be helpful for tracing the path of objects to analyze afterwards.
Yes.

Plenty of SaaS businesses (both bootstrapped and VC financed) end up flatlining. How sustainable this is depends on what space you're in, generally if you're revenue flat you become much more vulnerable to external factors (competitors coming into market, CAC increasing, recession, etc).
It’s just using Tudors as the historical era - it’s not really about the literal Tudor monarchs.
I assume you cook for one, max two. Unless you have a pretty strong hand.
STTR is a system designed to track all of the vehicles all of the time, and store their trajectories for ever.

Sounds like it's illegal in Europe due to the GDPR.
I'm still not sure what to think of all this. Facebook and Google are not public utilities, so why can they not decide what they allow on their platform or not? I suppose you really have to decide at what layer it becomes a violation of your rights. Would it be worrying if your domains were seized if you had something unpopular to say? Definitely. What if your cloud-host takes down your VPS after public backlash? That would probably seem unfair, but hey, you can go out and buy your own bare metal servers. What if you get censored/throttled at the network level, via ISP?

My point is, if you get taken down on FB/Twitter/Google, nobody is stopping you from saying what you want through the use of the internet. Private companies can do what they want, as long as they're not breaking the law.
Malthus's ideas was something different - that people will breed till they run out of food which basically hasn't happened.

People think of different things with peak oil. At the basic level production will peak - with a finite resource you can't keep increasing extraction for ever. On the other hand people sometimes link it to running out of oil which probably won't happen - instead we'll move to renewables because they will be cheaper and greener.
The main reason why organizations evolve to a bureaucratic mess is human agency, in particular the fact that each individual has personal interests and is motivated to achieve their personal goals. Bureaucracy is designed to restrict personal initiatives that favour the individual worker at the expense of the organization. For example, in Greece public sector workers abuse their position by expecting grafts to do their job, and they deny service to those who don't pay by giving a higher priority to everyone else. Thus, rules are put in place to restrict how prioritization is handled by public sector workers to mitigate this problem. Yet, now public sector workers are bounded to a rigid set of rules which dictates how and when a process should be processed.
Consider foveation as well — only a small part of that is truly in “focus”.

Some up and coming be glasses take this into account and expend lesser resources on the part that’s outside the important part (they don’t render that part in a high resolution, so it’s left blurry, which is actually how our eyes work anyway)
I find the bloat of recent software comes mainly from the web development area which consists of far too many kids who want to make cat web sites cause they now know "computers and stuff". This trend has led those with small businesses to think anyone can slap together a web site in two weeks and "What does it matter if it's a 10MB download?".

This has led to people like me who are strong followers of such philosophies and methods who want more time to analyze the real needs of the business and the technical needs of a web site to get beat down by managers who claim they've never known anyone to take more than two weeks to do anything. (A recent true story.)
Seems like the GDPR is working as expected. If your company can't be bothered to apply some common sense to handling user data (which is what the GDPR is mostly about, if you take a couple of hours to actually read it), then we're better off without it. I'm sure if what you're doing is relevant, some other company will happily take your place.
Out of interest, what's the FOV for people who normally wear glasses?
Yes, this is the exact model.
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Hi - I had a similar idea (for a different industry) but was concerned about spam and how to verify if the jobs are even real. Are you checking each submission manually? Looks good, nice job!
Reminds me of the studies that claim that putting lead in our petrol for decades also decreased the average IQ globally by 2-3 points.
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Yes, I predominately mean psychotherapy. The links I've listed mostly just provide hints of excessive psychologizing and quackery, but it is indeed awkward when >90% of psychotherapy methods do not perform better than placebo. There seems to be quackery in the medical side of psychiatry as well, but to a lesser extent.

Here it is straight from the horse's mouth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Fi32LbXHA
> With one of the most restrictive IP licensing scheme I've encountered in my professional life. Way to promote innovation indeed.

I feel like you are moving goal posts. Also, do you think IP in the US software industry is any better?
From glancing at the edges of my glasses, about 160-180 degrees, but anything close to the edges is always blurry; there's no way to avoid some level of lensing error. (Barring contacts.)

I've always favored extra-wide glasses, though. Some of the smaller ones might be 140 or even 120 degrees.
Climate change.
I rarely call or use the phone vs. texting. I would think that almost half the population rarely use the phone too.

Also the perpetrator is going to have to spoof my exact number to trick friends & relatives. Who I would hope would after speaking to a fake me would then text me soon or a bit after talking with comments & questions.
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So you are part of the 1% audience crowd from CppCon, developing software alone in C++ without any third party binary libs. :)
There are some examples in this issue, but that's only a small selection. https://github.com/lerna/lerna/issues/1630
Germany is now talking about nukes
There's a fundamentally different social contract in Europe from the US. The US is a nation founded on ideals: it's the nation of Manifest Destiny and the immutable rights of the individual. The premise is that anyone from anywhere can "become American" if they buy in to the American system.

In Europe by contrast most nations are defined by their history. There is a certain nativism in European thought that can't really exist in the same way in the US since a vast majority of the population emigrated within the last few centuries, and in many cases much more recently.
What makes you say that? Yes, it is a goal. In fact, it appears to be THE goal, whether our human perspective likes it or not.

Societies follow the same optimization principles as everything else. If the topics of self-organization, similarity across scales and sustainability interest you, check out Geoffrey West's work at https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/geoffrey-west (among a lot of others).
Yet, Google, Microsoft etc. still have offices in Germany.
I am more than happy for the trend to build brand on social media with all the picture they take. It retires the fun practice of them showing everyone a slideshow of their trip. Like 8-track, I am overjoyed at watching slideshows becoming a historical curiosity.
> With regards to immigration, you believe you can't estimate the probabilities, so you've arbitrarily decided that expected the risk outweighs the expected reward.

Think about what you are saying.

What probability of serious harm are you willing to accept in return for a half percentage point pay rise?

You must be certain the chance of things going wrong is almost nil.

What gives you such certainty? Your economics experts certainly aren’t claiming to offer such certainty.

> Automation through software development has the potential to cause very similar problems

At the end of the day it’s a significantly easier problem to manage.

Software can’t vote, get welfare, etc. Software doesn’t have any rights.

And of course even on this much simpler problem we should still apply risk management techniques.
I think you overlook two important things.

One, that has been pointed out already, is that companies are not hive minds. Doesn't matter how rich and powerful you are, you have to hire layers of managements to run your organization. These managers get their share of status, power & money by managing more people. The people they manage also want to get into management, so more layers and departments will be created. You are also competing with other companies to keep your employees happy so that they keep making you richer, and for this you have to give them their share. Bullshit jobs are a wealth (and status) redistribution mechanism that works almost as a force of nature under the current state of affairs.

The second thing is that if your plan worked (companies get rid of all bullshit jobs), then society would collapse. .001% of the people would end up with 99.999% of the wealth, everyone else in abject poverty. The more technology evolved, the more extreme this inequality would become. Of course society cannot work like this, and democracies force politicians to align themselves with the interest of the general public -- to some small degree perhaps, but enough here to create enough pressure for such jobs to keep existing.
As far as I know it's only required for companies whose core activity is large-scale monitoring of users.
Somehow I have the feeling this is mostly the plea of a few purists removed from reality.

Since this was published the bloat went on.

Why? My take is, most people don't care about small software as much as they care about UX, availability and features.

How else would you explain the rise of HTML/JS/Electron and the fall of C++/Qt in the UI world?
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"How do you get to that? Norway has extremely tight immigration policies. They hardly let anybody in."

I'm an immigrant here in Norway. The immigration process has been pretty straightforward. Much better than the crap I read about the US system. I'll add that I'm american, and have had to go through the entire process.

Folks from the EU have it fairly easy - basically, so long as you have a job, you can stay. Simply tell the government you are here (there might be another step or two, but it is simple). Like a lot of places, you just have to go through the right channels and have a reason to be here.

A lot of the folks I know are immigrants as well, from different places in the world.
“Eventually” being a key word as there are corrects. 2008 is one year out of many.
That only really works when combined with low-latency eye tracking. Yes, whatever we don't look directly at is really blurry, but our eyes move.

On the other hand, eye tracking is just about ready already. I've heard Google is working on a VR system using foveated rendering with tracking.
I did something a few months ago and pulled something in my back. Went to the doctor when the pain hadn't gone after a few days and it was exactly as described. He made me do a few movements until i triggered it, then told me i had lumbago, take some painkillers. I got home and googled lumbago, which basically told me I had back pain.

(As a side note I had some kratom, which worked wonderfully for this, better than the ibuprofen I was prescribed. Fortunately my pain went away after a few days, but I see that the DEA wants to ban kratom in the US. That would be pretty bad for many who use it for chronic pain).
>3) Society hasn't found a rational way to redistribute wealth yet.

I'm all in favour of us having a life of leisure or fun jobs (actor, ski explorer etc) and everyone having a basic income from the state. Sadly though the AI robots are not here and getting someone to fix your plumbing is still a pain, plus many other jobs. Maybe in the future we can go that way.
Heh, I've been thinking of the hiring thing myself too, although more as a moonshot idea since I certainly don't have the resources to actually hire anybody at this point.

But reading your comment got me thinking... what about, hiring someone to work on your idea, and then pair-programming with that person?

The (perhaps implicit) idea would be that the person/team would be leading, and you'd be given a clear path to focus on the bits you wanted to and/or had time+energy for.

Squinting at this from the right angles, you could interpret such an idea as a race-to-the-bottom toward project management. But... perhaps that's a direction you could go in?

In any case, what side projects were there?
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Ah, I really appreciate that you've made that connection. Given the current state of politics in the US, I'm afraid if I ever bring it up it'll be perceived as a gimmicky talking point for expanding socialist policies, but literally every engineer (or someone who's tinkered with something) knows that removing components from a system is an effective method for testing its robustness. Even more so, the worst time to figure out that your system is not robust is the exact moment when you need it to be robust.
But that is definitely not the norm, is it?
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Butthe fishing net was in response to saying how the straw campaign is bullshit.

It’s like punching me in the face and then pointing out how my visit to the doctor taught me how quitting smoking is good.
And what did he answer?
I certainly agree re:high dimensions. This is because to integrate, you don't need to approximate the function everywhere.
Yeah this was a big complaint about tourists (especially from certain countries) in Barcelona: they viewed the city as a playground and somewhere to let off steam, and they acted in inconsiderate and disrespectful ways in which they would never act back home. It's like to them Mediterranean culture seemed permissive and relaxed compared to what they were used to, so they made the false assumption that "anything goes" rather than putting in the effort to actually learn and respect the norms of the culture they were guests of.
That future is exactly compatible with nuclear power, which when done correctly (almost never is) is cheaper.
Read the article. Key quote. “A lot of the flights here are only 15 to 30 minutes.” Those planes don't go 500km. They go up, fly a short stretch over some complicated terrain, down. That's it.

As to why: Kerosene isn't really an option any more. We have a climate problem, and in this generation, not some future generation.
> "A rational society at our current stage of development would be celebrating job destruction, not creation."

Destruction of jobs in our current society would mean bad things for many people.

I understand what you were going for, but society is not at that point yet imo
My university is comparable to Stanford (Princeton) but has a roughly 1:1 faculty: administrator ratio (1200: to 1100).
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Dude are you me? I have the same problem. Cant decide to fixate on one. Hell react seems cool so does fast.ai. Damn, there are so many options.