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A few months ago I switched my time schedule from the standard "five eights" over to "four tens". I derived two benefits immediately.

First, it was far easier to avoid overtime because I was already working 9 or 10 hour days before anyways. It was just how the tasks worked out. Coming in early allowed me to help get the team spun up early in the morning, and staying a little late allowed me to help the team clear any roadblocks so they could end their day too. Obviously it's more complicated than that, but that's a decent high level abstraction.

Second, it allowed me to cut Mondays out of my life. According to my Automatic Labs sensor[0], my worst commuting days are Mondays with easily 25-30% longer drives each way. Additionally, Mondays are horrible as there's a higher likelihood of hangovers with colleagues, or residual homelife drama that absolutely must be described between 7 and 10am. All the worst meetings happen on Mondays. It just goes and goes.

But after only a couple weeks I started to realize some other benefits. I started walking my son to kindergarten in the morning, and picking up my daughter from school in the afternoons, which allowed me many more focused hours of "play time" with them. I got several hours in the middle of the day (like right now) to read the web at my leisure, work on personal creative projects that had nothing to do with work, take some MOOC courses, etc.

Now, the negatives.

First, my wife who works part time 5 days a week imagines I sit at home drinking beer and watching TV at 9am. It took a while to really establish that just because I work 4 days a week doesn't mean I'm not still working 40 hours a week. I also do end up "working" on Mondays anyways, but just on education, home renovations, even if I do spend the first couple hours on HN articles.

Second, I had to institute a full communications embargo with colleagues on Mondays. It was just too easy for conversations about BS to slip back into work talk because that's how we roll in a normal workday anyways, mixing business and personal anecdotes. This could be hard for others to do.

Third, I find it nearly impossible to do any personal projects during the week now. Before, after an 8 or 9 hour day, I could come home and find some motivation for an hour or two of other stuff. Now, after a solid 10 hour day, I come home, decompress for about 30 mins, then it's time to start the bedtime ritual for the kids. There's no space or energy left for projects.

All in all, it was a great change. I've seen others who have completely flexible schedules (40 hours in a week however they want), or simply "five nines" where they get a day off every second week, and other variations. The moral of the story is: fuck Mondays.

0: https://automatic.com (not affiliated, just a customer)
> I don't deny the role of genetics, but the problem is that people have been inculcated with the idea that you're born with a very specific interest and that's what you should spend your life doing.

This. It also discourage people from trying out new things - the thing you enjoy becomes your identity and somehow becomes personally important truth about you. The initial like/dislike becomes something revealing and definitive instead of being seen as just a stage of learning.
The GDR wasn't turned into a nuclear wasteland before occupation. It was also "only" devastated once by a world war, not twice, as would have been the case for Western Germany if it were to be occupied by Soviet forces again.
Googlers/Xooglers describe Larry Page as "rude" "egomaniacal" "jerk". [1] And fitting the typical pattern, the same individuals also describe him as "brilliant", an "intellectually honest person" and with a "vision stronger than arguably anyone in the industry." The reason you listed Brin and Page is because you know nothing about them outside of their carefully crafted public personas, which again tend to contrast quite starkly to these individuals' private behavior. But with Linus he acts as he is rather than crafting some fake public persona.

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As an aside, this is all very reminiscent of politics. We collectively claim we absolutely hate politicians who give nonanswers or focus tested and completely 'fake' responses to practically everything. Yet oddly enough, these people make up very near 100% of all politicians elected. Why might this be? It's because when we find a politician that does actually give his honest view on things we freak out and look for somebody 'better'. And who's better? The liar that tells you what you want to hear, instead of what he really thinks. And we get people that are smiles and honey on the surface, and two-faced corrupt liars on the inside. And then we act confused about why what they do and what they say don't match up.

[1] - https://www.businessinsider.com/googlers-say-larry-page-is-a...
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Linux's new CoC is a piece of shit
Now that SSL is effectively mandatory for every HTTP application, cloud providers will all either have to become CAs, or integrate with an external CA like Let's Encrypt.

The existence of LE provides an alternative to commercial and potentially hosting-specific CAs, so a Google CA isn't going to wreck the market. Except for the existing commercial providers who change large fees for not much.
Oh really? It was all just scaremongering from employers because they would have to share a little bit of profit with workers? Who would have thought.

Workers wages are literally decades behind the growth of productivity, with all of it taken by employers. amAnd yet enployers keep screaming about how unfair it is they have to pay a wage that is barely livable for tens of millions of people. It’s disgusting and a failure of our entire economic system.
This doesn't make sense to me. Eurowings flies non-stop Munich to Havana, and there is no need to cross US airspace on that route, nor would that be relevant with no stops in US airports.
It gives you a CLJS REPL on the phone: http://blog.fikesfarm.com/posts/2015-03-05-ambly-app-bootstr... Live editing code directly on the device is rather badass.
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I switched to a four day work week (cutting weekly hours, so not working more on those four days) a few months ago. It's glorious. I just use it as an additional weekend day, meaning time with family, hobbies and household chores.

But i am also not a youngster anymore, so side projects and work in general is not my prio #1 anymore
Oh my god yes. Actually we should work 6 days a week, imagine how fast the new Iphone would come out!!
The theory really speaks to me, as someone without any strict passion that could be realized in some hypothetical job. But on the flip side, can you then be ever really sure that if you dislike working in a certain field that it's because some specific job is bad or you are just too lazy to cultivate the competence/passion required to enjoy it?

Can anyone do anything to reach the competence/enjoyment stage with enough grit?
This goes well with the “air steward breakdown” DLC, I gather, and together provide a fulfilling and cathartic experience in which the children who just pushed over the drinks trolley get jettisoned at 45,000 feet.
How do we know that the 2 types of waves came 2 seconds apart? Didn't we have to hunt for the light source after the gravitational wave detection, which must have taken some time? Or were there cameras already trained on this part of the sky?

Edit: Ok, read the linked article, and the explanation is the detection of gamma radiation, which is part of the electromagnetic spectrum 1.7 seconds after the gravitational waves. Not sure which satellite sensor picked them up, but I assume gamma ray observatories are not as directional as light telescopes, since there isn't a huge background of gamma emissions.
the government banning Muslims from entering the country.

Which government did that then?
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If you don't like it you can use another instance?

Maybe you don't see the benefit but I can see some people using this considering I know people heavily relying on pleroma filters.
My understanding is that the detection order follows the underlying phenomena: first the neutron stars fell towards each other, producing gravitational waves, and only then did the stars collide, producing electromagnetic waves.
I disagree. It is not really quantifiable whether Linus' (at times erratic) patterns of communication had an positive or negative impact. You can very well be firm and tell people what they need to hear while staying friendly. If they realize you say the truth it will be more effective if you didn't give them an excuse to blame everything on you.

Communication is important in bigger project. This is why leaders have to be both aware and in control of what message gets across, otherwise the whole thing is based on luck and people's good will to read what you might have meant. Linus himself said he wasn't aware and that alone is a bad thing.

Don't get me wrong, you can totally get somewhere while beeing rude and erratic, but in my experience there are more civil ways which will get you there faster, with better morale and less overall friction.
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Do you live in the US? People often have exactly one choice of health insurance because the ones that don't come from your employer are far to expensive to afford. Even in a 2 income house one partners may be substantially worse or nonexistent.

The ACA changed this dynamic in areas with competitive markets by providing subsidies that allowed people options. This is going away.

The unsubsidized options would cost almost 1/2 of my pre tax income and my wife has major medical difficulties that preclude her continuing her career and cost significant sums. I have asthma difficulties which without insurance would 4000 just so I can keep breathing.

I would have options if we moved to a cardboard box in order to pay for different insurance.
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When that weight of batteries comes down after running out of power, it will break the ground.
I didn't see a link, but was that inspired from SMN[1] as you've used the same symbols for sharp and flat notes?

[1]: http://www.simplifiedmusicnotation.org/instructions.pdf
You would think that small and upcoming social media sites would support RSS, at least to attract users.

Apparently Mastodon generates an Atom RSS feed for every user, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16755553
> It maps every tree to a natural number, but not every natural number to a tree.

This is a one-to-one mapping between binary trees and natural numbers.

This encode an n level tree with O(n) bits
I don't think 1., 2., and 3. is applicable to at least how I use my RSS reader. Also, I don't understand why that is not the norm...

The way I use my RSS reader is that I scroll through the list of posts, and if it's something I wish to check back on later, I press the shortcut to send it to instapaper, and if it's something I wish to check now, I press the shortcut to open it in a new tab, and then I go on. When I'm done, all posts have been marked as read, and then I have a few tabs open that I immediately check out, and a few links in instapaper that I check out later. I never actually read an article or a comic or a video in my reader. It's terrible interface, I find. I much rather check out the actual website. I do the exact same for instapaper; open in a new tab and archive the link.
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>Or so you mean SZ has much better traffic than SV?

Yes, whoever is a city planner here, he is genius.

>Better air quality?

Yes, for simple reason that prevailing winds come from the sea

>outdoor activities

Every sporting event you can imagine, thanks to all things left over from universiade, and there is Da Peng peninsula, Zhuhai, and lots of greenery. If you don't mind getting malaria, and be bitten by monkeys, you can brave nearby hiking venues.

>dislike heat and humidity.

+30 is quite livable by my standards, and I spent almost half of my life in East Russia and *stans

30k is the junior engineer territory if you compare it with standards of Western run companies.

Here, a local without English gets so much in a company having nothing to do with dot com business

And yeah, the weather is totally fabulous around this time of year
Conference website: http://acai2018.unife.it/
What's the best iOS RSS reader for iPad (split view support) and iPhone, which manages a local-only database of RSS subscriptions, without requiring iCloud or other cloud-based login and surveillance?
Your article cites examples of behavior that wasn't abusive just essentric and annoying. These guys seem fine. I wasn't trying to list saints.
At some point it is successful enough that it can survive having people whose only goal is to direct a large amount of money into their pockets.

Seen this a few times, “executives” joining late in the day (weeks before IPO) with 10-100x the stock(options) of early engineers.
That seems sincere and is well formulated. Kudos to him for sharing that publicly.
I live in China now and fly around or in/out of the country about four times a year. It’s a better experience overall imo
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This looks like having Gallifreyan symbols. Cool.
I think my response would depend on how you phrased the question.

If you said “here’s an address, how would you parse it?” it would feel like the purpose of the interview is to use this task to see how I could. Saying Google Maps then seems quite facile.

If you said something like “you’re writing a web app and have been asked to add a new feature that would parse the submitted address and do X with it. Delivery of this feature is urgent. How would you parse the address?” then Google Maps seems like a much more natural answer.

I think the difficulty with such tasks is that it can be hard for the candidate to know what the confines of the test environment are - what kind of response is expected etc
Cola Cola is Sugar, Coffee is Caffeine. You're never going to go broke appealing to evolutionary biochemistry.
Maybe Time wasn't so valuable after all, don't you think?
The negative thing to come of this is that maybe he won't tell off bad companies any more. cough Nvidia...
It's an objective reality that the Chinese language has a higher information density per syllable and that "transmission" of speech is more easily disrupted. Native Mandarin speakers sometimes even have trouble communicating face to face and "write" characters with a finger on the other's palm.

It's also an objective reality that it takes more pieces of information to learn the Chinese representation of an English term than the other way around.

It doesn't mean learning English is always easier than Chinese, though it actually is for maybe even most Humans on earth.
It is a fruit.

The whole vegetable push was initially for taxes.

(https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/gardening/a20705757/ar...)

(https://www.businessinsider.com/supreme-court-tomato-is-vege...)

Also, the average Joe around the world is really really bad in plant related food classification. Given that a lot of cookbooks are written by non-culinary experts, I would take such culinary information with a grain of salt as to proper naming and classification. Culinary experts do refer to strawberries, tomatoes etc accordingly.
Don't forget Densha De Go! Practice being a very precise train driver. It's a shame the best versions were only available in Japan, but it is the reason I have modded a couple of old consoles to play out of region games.
i agree strongly with the "you are still you" part. I thought running away from my pain would make me forget. But yeah hundreds of miles don't really change how your brain works.
> nobody expects to get coffee for free/less in exchange for advertisements on their cups.

Some services actually give away coffee without requiring advert revenue of any kind.

Moreover, coffee vendors such as costa coffee or starbucks aren't mere coffee vendors.

Edit: I'm really interested to know what exactly did I said in my post that could possibly justify the downvotes.
Oh yeah now I see it :D
that's pretty fatuous. English is not easier to read/write than Portuguese when controlling for experience. js is easier to read/write even when controlling for experience.
But in 1986, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation loosening many restrictions, including... the requirement to log all ammunition sales.

... because despite millions of such purchase records spanning those decades, not one resulted in a criminal conviction for illegally purchasing ammunition. Not one.
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You're the second person in this thread to mention this problem on the MBP. I work with tons of phones with USB-C and my laptop charges with USB-C and I don't see this "degrade over time" issue the MBP seems to have.
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The point is that map itself returns an new array.

But people use it for just looping through an array without creating a new one
I’ve worked on dozens of these “print on demand” programs over the last 10+ years for museums and galleries like Tate, MoMA, The National Gallery etc. They are a fairly standard part of most museum’s retail operations, but this is a particularly nice example.

Licensing for fine art reproductions in museum retail can work in very strange ways, even if the work is out of copyright. For example, if a work is not part of the gallery’s collection, permission may be sought from the owner who may or may not own the high res, as well as the estate of the artist. I many cases this is not required as the work is not in copyright, but nobody wants to step out of line.
There shouldn't be weekends. People should be allowed to take any 3 days off during the week. This will reduce unemployment and increase productivity.
Coca Cola contains caffeine too, 32mg per can.
Like pretty much every other major country in the world, including the US.
Got to say, Mike Fikes comes across as a lovely person and his blog posts are super informative
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I see. Thank you.
That's not single-spaced, but it is better than code font and formatting.
It's not just about him being the creator of Linux, it's about how much you could learn from working with him.
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I was in a similar boat in 2017.

Quit my FinTech job "because I was just making my bosses money" and didn't do much work for a year.

Got addicted to Crossfit and cocaine, travelled to the USA, Vietnam and Norway, and lived off Bitcoin.

The one thing I achieved was completing the last course to get my CS diploma.

Then I got a girlfriend, took a job, switched out the social circles, and started going to therapy.

I can make that year look like I was exploring, but really I was trying to escape some local optimum with some rather stupid strategies.

I'm happy my current employer didn't ask much about what I'd been doing recently, and that I can refer to my current job when I apply for my next job.
> The concept of an arithmetic mean is quite artificial - there's other ways you could define "average" such as the median.

I'd give some pushback on that. It is the only linear mean, and linearity matters.

More importantly though, it corresponds to the Expected Value. That is, the average of n samples of a distribution f converges to E[f]. In fact, I believe the arithmetic mean is the best unbiased estimator for the expected value of a distribution.

Now, expected values matter because they are the basis of robust decision-making.
I'd expect that anecdote was not the reason for the declarations. The vast majority of Googlers will never have any 'real' interaction with Page/Brin, thus giving intimate examples of their behavior in private would be unwise. I think this is part of the reason that the flood gates for Jobs only opened once he died a premature death.
This isn't news at all. Minimum wage is just a price constraint, and if the supply/demand equilibrium lies above the minimum wage constraint then the optimal solution does not change.

Conversely, raising the minimum wage under these circumstances also has virtually no effect on real income. In fact, under these circumstances workers who earn minimum wage are far better served by applying and switching to higher-paying jobs.

Minimum wage levels only impacts economies when they are raised to close to the economy's supply/demand equilibrium point. Hence, minimum wage starts to increase unemployment and deflate median wages in recessions when it becomes a legal impediment to job creation.
These shops don't sell coffee — They're real estate companies for ultra-short term coworking and third-place/feel-good lifestyle. Just like McDonalds (in some European countries at least).
Exactly. I am pretty certain, no such claim was made by the movie. And although it mixes a bunch or eras together, it does not claim to have just brought back dinosaurs.
From the web:
«In March 2016, the Albany Times Union reported on hundreds of pages of emails from Reich’s research team that showed a close collaboration between the research team and labor union groups that fund the movement to raise the minimum wage. According to the article, “the relationship between academic and funder seemed explicit” with one uncovered email showing that the research team was seeking grant money to support its research "for local groups engaged in work to raise the minimum wage" and “testimony/media work” in California.»
«In July 2017, Seattle Weekly reported it had obtained emails through a public disclosure request showing that Reich had coordinated a June 2017 Seattle minimum wage study with a minimum wage advocacy group, a pro minimum wage public relations firm, and Seattle Mayor Ed Murray’s staff. The emails show Reich accelerated the timeline of his report to preempt a soon to be released University of Washington study that came to the opposite conclusion.»
Anything is possible, but how would you falsify that hypothesis?
Yeah, this concerns me as well. I do think "bundle" deals (coffee + $1 more for a newspaper) might actually work. I know that I pick my local coffee store just because it has free newspapers and magazines to read (it is part of a local bookstore).

But I know plenty of people that are not willing to pay anything for "news", and their argument is always that there is enough free content on the web. The quality of news is something that is very difficult to assess, unless you are a domain expert.
There's a whole lot of people who don't have the luxury of just being able to assume a baseline level of trust, because they feel out of place for whatever reason. Think about what groups of people that might be, in the kernel context.
What happens for a 1 : 1.1 rectangle? it seems to me that that curve isn't optimal then. If so, what is the ratio for a rectangle where that curve becomes optimal.
What DRM?
This is very cool. Are there any alternatives that do the same?

I'm happy to use this just checking if there's another standard that's more widely adopted?
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I love the "strategic popcorn reserve". The trick is to a) not use it up and b) not become someone elses popcorn reserve
One proposal has been to go to an 8-day week with a 3-day weekend. This only reduces worked days by 12%, instead of 20%.