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Here is the sci-hub link to the complete paper: https://twin.sci-hub.tw/6591/b97b94dcca5fd993e846fa0a6d0909d...
Funny you should mention Albania: It's exactly where I learned never to doubt Google Maps.

Specifically, never to assume that "It's like ten meters between these two points... I don't see a reason why we would need to go all the way around".

(There was a 30m deep gorge)

More to the point: Given enough position data, Google should be able to assess all those road parameters you mention, far better than manual entry could ever do at scale. They could easily notice, as but one example, when locals routinely take different routes than they would suggest and modify their data accordingly.
Not necessarily, I actually think this is a smart move on their part, TSMC is ahead on 7nm and FD-SOI, RF, SiGe, etc. are big, profitable and rapidly growing markets in which GF has a differential advantage.
Toyota likes their best selling car in America moniker. This is why they sell so many cars to rental car agencies. Honda and others don't aggressively pursue this and have lower "sales" as a result.

So I don't find this "investment" very surprising at all.
> More board members may increase intransigence, decrease oversight (cover over who is really making the decisions and who is not), and turn US corps more bureaucratic.

Take a look at the evidence in the real world (y'know, actual facts, not baseless speculation) and you will find strong indication that larger board sizes increase corporate performance.

> Boards beholden to current workers may sacrifice a lot of progress to keep things comfy, at the expense of future workers and jobs.

Again, this is the sort of thing that you could investigate by doing research of actual facts in the real world. You might start by looking at how German firms with significant worker board representation responded to reunification and Eastern Europe online. Hint: workers did not sacrifice future growth to keep their "comfy" wages.

> Obviously it "works" in germany, for some amount of "works," but it should need no explanation that US companies as a whole are able to move faster, and in high tech, often with higher wages(!!) than in Germany.

Like most "economic debates" in the US, I expect the debate around codetermination will be driven purely by ideology. There will be no serious review of the existing economic research and zero attempt to seriously investigate what works and doesn't work in any countries. What you'll get is just one side crying "Communist!" and the other side crying "Capitalist!" and there will be zero progress.
Don't forget the planned city that actually got built -- Brasilia. Niemeyer was a disciple of Le Corbusier.
This is a function of where you are in the interview process.

Most people get rejected at the resume stage. Most who have acceptable resumes get rejected at the first screen. All of this is invisible to software engineers who only see candidates at the last interview step.
I think you're way overblowing this, but it's possible you know more than I do. What makes you think "either willfully or accidentally mis-interpreting rejection feedback" is a meaningful threat to any company? Have there been cases where companies were wrongfully sued for such a thing that I'm not aware of? And have they gone out of business as a result?

I've read an awful lot of employment case coverage and don't remember seeing anything like that. What I do recall seeing are people getting hammered for flippant comments _during_ an interview, but that's an entirely different thing.
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I don’t know about color (never needed anything fancy that way) but Terminal has supported ligatures for at least the past macOS release or two. I use Fira Code with mine and it works exactly as expected.

iTerm2 is nice but for my usage it does too much. If there were a lite version that cut a lot of the more niche features and focused solely on speed and responsiveness I might consider it.
No. The UK has some of the worst tech wages in Europe, esp. on a cost-of-living adjusted basis. Switzerland is on par or better than the US. Other countries fall on a spectrum in between.

FYI this isn't limited to Europe; Canada also pays much lower than the US. (The Seattle vs Vancouver comparison is especially striking). Elsewhere, Singapore is comparable to Switzerland and the US. I'm not sure about NZ and Australia.
> Does that injustice not matter too?

Yes, but just because A is broken, does it really make sense to abolish B? Instead, we should fix A.
as in this https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs4110/2016fa/lectures/le...
Pretty much all modern SSDs support an attribute called "Lifetime remaining", which is basically the same thing as the wearout indicator.

It's attribute 231 for many vendors, 169 for several others, 202 for Crucials and Micron.
If someone's going to deny me a promotion for linking a wikipedia page that answers a basic question and completely ignore my technical contributions, I absolutely do not trust that place has the best interests of its developers in mind and is likely driven more by politics than anything else.

No place has the "best interest of its developers in mind". That's true for any industry. It's a lot easier to replace the on the floor factory worker (i.e. the developer) than the foreman (the architect) and they get paid accordingly.

Don't get caught up on the title, role power is the least effective type of power in an organization. If you leverage relationships and can be seen as the expert, you can easily punch above your weight.
I recently switch https://onthegomap.com from google to OSM for walking paths between points. The trail quality is much better where I live (Massachusetts) but I have been getting a lot of complaints from people all over the world that it no longer has their trails. I wonder what the lowest friction way to get my users to help contribute trails to OSM would be?
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If you are hiring a student, then consider selling it an internship. A few reasons why:

1. You can place a clear timeframe (like “internship during the fall semester, potential to renew internship during spring semester and summer”). This way you start them with a clear end date. That way if you are not comfortable firing someone, you have a natural excuse. As a new manager, that may be valuable.

2. Some local governments may have workforce development grants to cover parts of the expense of an internship but not just a regular employee. I know that is the case in my state (in the US).

Also if they are a student then by definition they are not an expert. For best results expect to spend time mentoring them. This likely means spending time in advance to outline the general path. In my experience, the more structure you have to start the better your results. After they get going, you can probably reduce the required structure (assuming they are a good hire). If not, get a new intern at the next semester.

Keep a list of all IT things you configure for them (email accounts, slack, other saas etc). This way you have an easier time to disable them when they leave.

Lastly treat them like an adult with real company email address, etc. The more professional you look to them, the more professional they will look to the rest of the world. Also, they will certainly talk to their peers about you and your company. So make a great impression.
I only use google maps because the goecoding is a lot and I think the routing is done on their computers which makes it a lot faster.

Plus finding good OSM apps is hard.
I'd gladly support BuzzFeed News. Just today they broke this huge story [1].

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christinekenneally/orph...
We do agree 100%. :)
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That's also proper RAID5/6 maintenance. My main/recent familiarity is with LSI hardware RAID implementation, where they call it a "patrol read". I believe mdraid has checkarray.

I'm not sure if you meant to imply that ZFS is different from standard RAID in this regard, but it doesn't seem as though it is.
regarding the xkcd, it's not really accurate (it seems to consider only the neutrons as "radiation"), for a somewhat better description see the first answer at

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/187605/does-wate...
> The amount extractable is pretty much the net benefit

No, it's not.

> This is because landlords can raise prices immediately.

Assuming the absence of all of lease contracts and rent control and legal notice period for rent increase (e.g., California’s 30-day notice for an increase that would bring the rent to more than 10% higher than the lowest rent charged in the preceding 12 months) and available competitive units, sure.

> there simply aren't a bunch higher-priced apartment available - these apartments are occupied by already by higher income tenant.

Sure there are, except in the tightest markets. It's true that housing supply can be a problem, particularly in done local markets, but that's an issue with it without UBI.
”I've seen candidates with anything between 1 and 15 years of full time coding work on their resumes fail to answer basic fizz-buzz level coding questions.”

I haven’t seen this. I have, however, seen lots of junior interviewers ask idiotic questions and wash candidates out for bad reasons, and then turn around and claim the candidate ”failed at fizzbuzz”, just to cover their own ass (or because they think TopCoder medium questions are “fizzbuzz”. Equally stupid.)

Me personally? I’ve never interviewed a senior person who couldn’t code at all. Not after the phone screen, anyway.
GloFo was never long-term sustainable, so they basically had a choice between going bankrupt in 1-2 years trying to do 7 nm or coasting on 14 nm and slowly withering away over 5-10 years.
The cartoon only argues that the material is safe to swim next to in a pool. It doesn't argue that storing spent fuel in a pool for hundreds of years is a good idea because of it (it isn't).

Highly active waste is stored to be separated from the biosphere 10k to 100k years (If stored in a pool that's 200 to 2000 pools assuming a 50 year lifespan and hoping there are no massive earthquakes to ruin that plan - and hoping people are still around to rebuild the pools).

The alternatives for storing includes the pool idea (however difficult), as well as storing in several km deep drill holes (downside not being able to move it again). The most realistic one is storing it in earthquake-safe bedrock at 500m depth, in large metal capsules embedded in clay or salt. Needless to say, even for a small amount of material, this is a rather expensive storage.
Analytics platforms for web properties I manage.
Apple now employee their own teams to do mapping
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Speaking the language and speaking with an accent are two different things. Learning to listen to someone with an accent is a skill you can develop, same as they can develop their english skills (which they will, with practice and time).
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It seems reasonable enough. If driverless happens, Uber would be rushing to acquire a very large number of cars. Regardless of autonomousness, there are paths that Uber could take which would make them a huge consumer and operator of cars.

It's a hard to predict future. There is at least some possibility that driverless will eat a market fast, and the market changes for car makers. They need a hedge.

Overall though... how much money is going in to autonomous r&d? It's also possible that driverless doesn't get to the making money part for a long time. Is the funding sustainable?
How would a board seat even represent all of the employees? Would the arrangement be any less corrupt than the way unions represent workers? Would organized crime get involved?

Employees have power over the company. They can leave it for another company.
At any time, actually. Companies have to compete for employees.

Of course, employees CAN own stock and accumulate enough to get a seat, assuming they can agree. And that, of course, is the problem. Employees won't agree on everything so the majority of employees will get represented and the rest of the employees will not be represented.

Winner-take-all decision making opens the door for corruption. It plagues our democracy. Why shouldn't it also plague corporate decision making?

If you had an arrangement where employees voted on board issues and the YES employee votes were proportionally assigned to the YES side of the board vote and the NO employee votes were proportionally assigned to the NO side of the board vote, that would make a little more sense.

But that would mean the workers would have to be privy to the board's discussions, which means the world will know what they discuss.

So, without that proportionality, the employee representative can actually make backroom deals with the other board members. Deals that might benefit him but cost those he represents a lot.
I've done the TripleByte interview, so the decision to ask questions about relational databases instead of asking for a practical exercise makes sense in context.

It's because you can only fit so much into an already long interview (2 hours). A big chunk of that time is already spent on an exercise about reading/writing/debugging complex code. You can't fit everything in, so database stuff is moved to the non-coding section. Also, the questions aren't "guess the right answer" questions, the interviewer keeps digging with open ended questions to see how deep you can go.

> it could be that the candidates couldn't effectively communicate knowledge about RDMBS's. Or, it could be that the interviewer wasn't effectively listening to what the candidate was saying.

You could certainly get a bad interviewer, but that's a strawman here. If it's not TripleByte judging the candidate's communication skills, then it's the hiring team judging that. The suggestion was about how to give feedback about communication skills. And there are definitely stronger and weaker communicators, and it definitely makes a big difference in day to day work.
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Also, this looks like a feedback email after a take home project? I guess the rejection emails after the technical interview should be much more detailed.
Where did u find dismissal in my post? It has ZERO negative words.
Many languages aren't really suitable for CGI, because of long startup times, leading users of those languages to not tending to have a clean slate on every request, unless they work for it. (Alternatively, if you don't want a clean slate on every PHP request, you have to work for that)
Just ditch the Unions and most of the Wagner Act.

VW tried to create a workers board in TN similar to the German model, but the UAW got in the way.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/12/adversarial-labor-law...

I saw a quote from a German labor leader (I think) saying American unions are overly adversarial against firms and don't care about keeping them running.

I think a lot of firms would gladly include worker representation in various form an there isn't a need to create laws to require it.
I lived on 4hrs/night when I was 15-16. I had so many wonderfully interesting things to do, discover and work on. I don't recall ever feeling tired at that age, and I wish I could go back to that level of drive and energy.
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THey don't need a majority. They'd use it as negotiating leverage, ie, I'll vote this way if you vote that way.

What's interesting though is that Germany is an industrial powerhouse compared to the US.
As they point out - this we a first demonstration in public. I sure hope that as things become more public and they make plans for products this will start to show up. ( Or we will make enough noise about it that it will have to show up ;-) )
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Most of it is marketing. Notice how hard companies fight whenever there is an attempt at unionizing a workplace.

My wife is a member of a nurses union and it is nice to have a contract with your employer (something all top executives have) instead of work conditions being at the whim of a manager.

A downside of most contracts is there is little room for performance bonuses - almost all contracts are based on time in the union and not performance. The effect is an A player and a D player all get the same wages and benefits. There is no reason a union contract has to be structured this way, but for some reason they almost always are based on time and not performance.
I tried Symfony, which I liked a lot, and I wrote code in a similar way as I would have for ASP.NET, which I thought seemed logical considering how similar they were. And then my colleagues complained that my code was too complicated and they didn't like all the type declarations when you could just easily return untyped arrays everywhere. I don't work in PHP anymore.
Although the mythical improvements never materialized, at the very least Transmeta manged to ship a commercially viable CPU using some trully innovative technology, so I think it is unfair to bucket them together with the rest.
I don't think the library of congress should have an aggressive, in-your-face logo. It's a library. It's mission statement is about maintaining history. There's no reason to try to appeal to hip coffee shop urbanites. The old logo was both more clever (resembling the American flag and a book at the same time), and still pretty darned modern. Designing a new, tone-deaf logo is a waste of everyone's time and resources.
Um ... I don't know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCTf7wT5WR0
For anyone interested in setting up their own OSM tile server + Nominatim geocoding: Here's an up to date docker image that is relatively easy to set up: https://github.com/drwitter/osm-tiles-docker

Great for maps in offline environments and/or querying without API limits!

Really think OSM is great.
I think if you pick a sensible framework it's not especially hard to write sensible code (except it's hard to reason about the performance of PHP's associative arrays), but the older culture is hard to root out.
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Not only are tech salaries lower, the tech in Germany is shockingly bad. The mechanical engineering is world class, but try to buy a ticket online for the amazing train system, and it feels like using an Airline website from the 90s.
Google's business location coverage in suburban areas is far better than OSM from my XP...by a longshot
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It has one 800 MW breeder that has been operating at full power for two years. Plans to build more of them in China appear to have been shelved. The successor BN-1200 implementation has also been suspended. The 6 reactors that Russia currently has under construction are all PWRs. I think that referring to breeders as future reactors (in the context of commercial power plants) is appropriate.
The good thing in PHP that I don't think enough people talk about is Laravel.

If you are starting a new PHP web app and you expect to grow beyond a toy project, I highly recommend starting by using the Laravel framework. Laravel provides so many useful things and it encourages good separation of concerns and code organization. But it is flexible enough to get out of your way if you need it to.
Well yeah, but what about the rest of the keys? It's one thing to put all the shortcut keys on the left or right side, but quite another to arrange the keys so that typing is...possible.
Yeah, don't get me wrong, PHP is much better than I expected it to be and my problems were more social than technical.
That worked well for CELL. It is not of a matter of having control, the issue is that the working set of a program is data dependent and not statically predictable.
In the app centric macOS workspace, a window is better than a tab but not as good as an app. I have far fewer apps in my cmd-tab app switcher than I have both tabs and windows, so if I can elevate most commonly used things to the app level that’s far preferable to a window. This can be done with a wrapper app, but I’d rather not have to do that.

Under a window centric workspace like Windows and most Linux DEs, a window is good enough, but under macOS it’s not.
No, look at "broadly available" part of the sentence you quoted.

It would be reasonable to tell Google that they have a patch, show them the patch, and tell that's going to be released on third thursday of September or whatever, and the disclosure should wait until that - that's compatible with that policy. Showing the patch to Google and coordinating with them doesn't start the clock, the clock starts when you start sending the patch to random users.

It's not acceptable to release a patch to the general public and then delay the disclosure for weeks. Once Epic discloses the vulnerability to the bad guys (by making the patch broadly available), the good guys i.e. the general public needs to know the details ASAP.

The 90 day buffer is the time for analyzing the vulnerability and developing (and testing) a fix for it - but not for deploying the fix; deployment must be much, much faster than that, preferably on a single day.
As someone who interfaced with the Warp system (both software and the organization), I agree with @cbanek. The number of features and the custom nature of it are impressive, but for anyone who had to deal with the politics of improving the system, it was a nightmare. There was (continues to be?) an effort to deconstruct the monolith, but it was a very painful process. Motives from different departments were in constant competition. Getting something done in Warp meant calling hours of meetings and getting the ear of a director/VP who would champion your cause -- and an associated PM that would be ready to serve said VP. This process was so backwards that, if the actual technical work that went in didn't burn someone out, the politics sure could.

It wasn't all bad. There were other groups at X that provided pretty amazing tools for people to get things done (thanks, @cbanek and friends!)
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Unions generate a lot of individual anecdotes, whereas any benefits are far more diffuse. The stories of unions protecting terrible cops, teachers, and running up costs in construction / maintenance are widespread and constant.

If you've ever worked somewhere you couldn't change a lightbulb on your own, or carry a small box of materials to another building, plug in an appliance, or similar you quickly get a dim view of their value.

I'm not saying all are bad, but the bad ones...are really bad.
"I predict that within one-hundred years computers will be twice as powerful, ten-thousand times larger and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them."
This explains the sudden correction AMD saw mid-rally today.

https://www.google.com/search?q=NASDAQ:AMD

The impact of the TSMC monopoly on 7nm might not have been fully priced in quite yet as I doubt everyone caught this bit of news.(Disclosure: I'm long AMD)

Edit: Actually, this news broke embargo at 4pm eastern, no? The downswing took place mid-day...
"Moore's Second Law" claims another victim, it seems.
From the article:

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