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> I think most people on here (but sadly few company structures) would agree that engineering and engineering management are two nearly orthogonal skillsets, but for some reason we insist on "promoting" people who are good at the former into positions that require the latter.

I don't think they're orthogonal skillsets. A major part of management (arguably the most important part) is helping your team improve their skills, which works much better if you're a skilled engineer yourself.

> I would basically worry about stunting my development as an engineer if I switched to focusing on management, and I'm not even convinced my role models for career development are really in primarily "managerial" roles (I'm thinking of both famously very good backend devs both at my company and at the big SV companies).

Yes, becoming a manager will stunt your growth as a developer.

> Separately, I have relatively little interest in being in a role where my output is judged as the output of a team of people who aren't me. I get that that's the best way to judge managers, and that managers do very valuable intangible things in unblocking their team, but I'm skeptical that I'd be able to feel satisfied by this.

You probably wouldn't enjoy managing then.

> I write all these things, because it really seems like a foregone conclusion of both this article and the industry as a whole that an engineer will eventually become a manager. Is that what I most likely have to look forward to in my career if I wind up working at the well-established/mature companies?

Definitely not. Most big companies have separate technical and management tracks, and most developers shouldn't go into management.

> Can someone explain to me why I should want to become good at management?

The major reasons to become a manager are: (1) you can have a much greater impact on the business as an Xth percentile manager than an Xth percentile engineer, or even an (X-20)th percentile manager; (2) you enjoy teaching and watching people grow; (3) you're more interested in causing good software to happen than you are in building it personally.
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Data point: I make $24,000 a year and I think this is a great use of money.
How much of your capital do you plan to allocate? And do you plan to allocate any of mine (i.e., the taxpayer)?
Reminds me of chemotherapy and countless other medical procedures. We do the best with what we've got. It's not like we're going to collectively say, "not going to do anything until we've come up with the perfect solution to this ailment." To an extent, I try to keep this in mind when arguing with the engineering devil on my shoulder that constantly shouts, "no, you have to do it right!"

I imagine your prognosis without a transplanted kidney is markedly worse.
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I think they've said before that they don't want someone saying the performance sucks when it is really just a bad query or something else that isn't the databases fault...this is usually the reason why talking about performance is outlawed.
Thank you a lot!

It's not intended to be a marketplace.. Instead we would aggregate the information about each investor and then share it with the community of startups who would be our customers
Yes I place him up there with any of those people.

What SpaceX and Tesla are doing is absolutely breathtaking.
"Some kind of celestial event. No — no words. No words to describe it. Poetry! They should have sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful... I had no idea."[0]

What a beautiful sentiment. This humanizes space travel.
I really hope the team succeeds on this mission, even with delays.

As a kid, I always felt a sense of awe reading about space and space travel. Now I am in grad school and lost that feeling of awe along the way. The only times that feeling has come back were during the Rocketman livestream and now looking at this project.

I am looking forward to the day that we go back on the moon, maybe even build a base there (Kurzgesagt released a video today about a moon base[1], coincidence?).

Again, what a noble endeavor, a billionaire taking artists to the moon!

[0] http://scifiquotes.net/quotes/139_They-Should-Have-Sent-a-Po...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtQkz0aRDe8
Friendica and Hubzilla have events (not sure about the rsvp feature):

https://friendi.ca/

https://project.hubzilla.org/page/hubzilla/hubzilla-project
Clickbait. The content of the article has to do with wireless providers, not wired ISPs.
Oh interesting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad
Yup, and it's vulgar and deserves to be condemned.

Moreover, museums don't allow the donors to curate the exhibitions, and artists do not mention their patrons in their work.

Art is in fact a system with established rules, which reflect good sense, and this collector is very much operating within that framework, just tastelessly.
I personally prefer tutanota
LOL. In Atlanta, highway traffic just slows down to 40 in torrential downpour conditions where you can’t see lane markings.
> isn't enough to wow me

I wasn't creating a list of people that wow you, or even a list of people that wow me.

The metric was "how many people did this person inspire in a positive way?" and Barack Obama undeniably did that by being the first black POTUS.
doug demuro if you like cars on youtube is funny and informative.
So as someone who works 3rd shift, I'm just screwed? Kind of disappointing, but not unsurprising.
In my experience, most people feel this way. More daylight after noon is more desirable for the majority of us who work a 9-5 type of job.

I'm curious how many people are confused about which part of the year is Daylight Savings Time. I've corrected people who "hate daylight savings" on a few occasions. They had it backwards.
Thanks for sharing! It was pretty good.
It’s better to write software to solve real problems - not software problems.

Quoteworthy.
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To double down on this it's worth finding out how the customer within the large company pays for things. Sometimes it was easier to get an annual or quarterly contract because that's how a company's accountants dealt with that employee/department's business expenses.
This was the case in the early 2010 version of the rules, but I believe the Wheeler FCC rules from 2015 applied to both fixed and mobile broadband providers. The justification was that use of mobile internet had grown significantly since then, and could no longer be excluded without punishing people living in remote areas.

I can't read the massive PDF of the 2015 order on my phone though, so I could be wrong.
I don’t see the fact that self driving cars can’t drive in all conditions as a reason not to still want one that can drive on the freeway in good weather. A lot of people spend a large portion of their driving time on freeways so if we could solve that to a standard of safety that is acceptable, that would be a huge win in my book. As soon as it starts raining, have the system disengage and I’ll take over.

It seems to me that a lot of people commenting here are a bit obsessed about the edge cases, and if it has edge cases then it’s not a “true” self driving car. I disagree. I think a car that can self drive in some situations would still be amazing.
Thanks. It was not very clear by design. I edited to explain better the context without giving much information away.
That Waymo has not solved left turning is not really a conclusion supported by that article. A supportable conclusion is that the impatient meatbags are angry that the Waymo van won't dangerously veer out into oncoming traffic.
There's plenty of speech which is non-political, non-substantial, has little or no intrinsic value, and I'm simply not interested in reading it. For instance if I wake up one morning and feel like telling you that you're a piece of sh*t because I'm just not a fan of fruit jams, you have no obligation at all to accept my message. This isn't really spam it's just me being a troll and a dickhead.

If you argued that certain people in 2018 are too thin-skinned and characterize everyone as attacking or oppressing them I'd agree, but we still need filters to deal with legitimate abusers.
Of course they do. Airborne lidar usually works in the near infrared spectrum which is not absorbed by wood. It is however more absorbed by leaves which have a higher water content. My main point is: airborne lidar (which is what OP is referring to when talking about removing forests and keeping the ground) has multiple returns for one laser beam. Laser beams can have a radius of 1-2 meters or more when they hit the ground. By keeping only the lowest return in the z direction you most certainly have a ground point. It's not rocket science and interpreting ground lidar scans (velodyne and such) in bad weather is a much much more difficult problem.
> I would say 75-90% of hiring managers in the US are not even US citizens

Wut? This number seems wildly off to me.
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Both wired and wireless broadband internet connectivity were included in the 2015 net neutrality rulings:

From https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/04/13/2015-07...:

“Broadband Internet access service” continues to include services provided over any technology platform, including but not limited to wire, terrestrial wireless (including fixed and mobile wireless services using licensed or unlicensed spectrum), and satellite.

In contrast to the Commission's 2010 Open Internet Order, here we are applying the same regulations to both fixed and mobile broadband Internet access services.
>> Heck, there's ancient adage "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" - why does that saying exist if it doesn't contain a kernel of truth??

A lot of people will also cry "oh god!" or something similar when they find themselves in a difficult situation, but that doesn't mean they believe in god; some do, many don't and still use the phrase. What's more, it doesn't mean there is a god. It's just something that people say.
Can you even train artistic talent? Doesn't it require a natural gift that you're born with?

(musician/artist here) I don't believe in 'talent' or 'gifts', and I don't believe art/music, like a lot of things, is something you can teach (mostly). You can learn it, but you can't teach it. (Botvinnik - founder of the 'Russian School of Chess' (!) - said that about chess, I keep seeing people in different fields saying that.)

You learn it by doing it. A lot. And learning from what you love, e.g. the greats in your field. And you won't do that day after day for decades unless you really love doing it. No-one else knows what you should be working on, or what you love. Everyone's bad at anything when they start. I hear a lot of people saying they wished they played flute (or something), but they're not talented. That myth does a lot of harm. I tell them, well, just start!. It's all anyone can do. Art is essentially about doing your own thing, not willfully, but following what your nature dictates. 'You' don't create it; it just flows out of you.

So I'd also think that space travel training is more teachable than art, for different reasons.

A (probably apocryphal) story: ...a woman once came up to Fritz Kreisler after one of his concerts and said to him, “I’d give my life to play as beautifully as you do.” To which Kreisler replied, “I did.”

One's own path. - If we take the decisive step and enter upon the path which is called our 'own path', a secret is suddenly revealed to us: all those who have hitherto been our friends and familiars have imagined themselves superior to us, and are now offended. The best of them are lenient with us and wait patiently for us soon to find our way back to the 'right path' - they know, it seems, what the right path is... - Nietzsche, Daybreak, 484
I've never understood why. I can't imagine any programmer or self-driving car company having any interest whatsoever in going down that particular rabbit hole. The answer is simple -- we don't expect humans to do realtime analysis of who is worth killing when an accident is happening, so we will not expect that of computers either. It's an unsolvable problem. So we just tell the computer that in the event that an accident appears unavoidable it should do everything within it's power to stop the car immediately. End of story.
The business will adapt if you fix the clock.
Also leaned to not fuck with the cartels.

Oh come on, you can’t leave us hanging like that! This is the beginning of the best story in the thread. How did the cartel connection form? Was your contact named Estefan? Did he have a mild accent and project an aura of power?

“Bad decisions make good stories!”
I don't know that I disagree with you regarding their lack of leverage, but I think it is more due to their inability to disrupt production because of Amazon's large size and ability to reroute order fulfillment.
Impressive- it's a sample-return mission. Sending up cameras to capture photons or sample enclosures to capture bits of dirt is too pedestrian for SpaceX. Instead they'll send up artists to capture samples of space-ness, to be studied by humanity back on Earth.
EV is very useful when banks decide to host some parts of their online presence on what sounds like a phishing domain. Think "onlinewebconnect.com", which redirects through "live.logonvalidation.net" (Saxo Bank - they're hip enough to have their own TLD but apparently not smart enough to actually use it for something good) or the various domains banks liked to use for their "3D secure" login process.

It also drives the cost of phishing attacks up significantly. Sure, you can get a confusing cert issued, but if it requires you to create a new company, it's not going to be used in mass phishing attacks.
I think the technology and learning that will come out of this will be more than worth the cost. It's short sighted to only consider the immediate ROI. A substantial portion of development is also currently being funded by a private citizen (approx $1.5B of the final cost).

And honestly, humanity could use a sense of humor sometimes. We spent trillions going to war in just the past 2 decades when we could have spent a couple billion doing seemingly impossible projects like this. Projects like this also provide jobs and have the added benefit of directing our efforts into something far more useful and far less disastrous than something like war.
> Yes, you could probably get it done better and sooner ...

It's a fine example of the potentially counter-intuitive 'Law of Comparative Advantage' [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
It depends on the size of what you want to accomplish. If you're happy only accomplishing what one (even superhuman) individual can do, then you're all set. Necessarily, if you want to accomplish things that only a team can do (larger or more complex projects), you're going to have be able to manage people other than yourself.
I'd imagine the Benelux countries would stay together as there is so much cooperation between them.
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> How do you know that he isn't going to have a renown creator help select the artists?

He has already done half the job by framing the entire project (around himself). Involving a curator would mean allowing them to frame the project around the practices of the actual artists involved.

> Your cynicism is not much different from those that complain that the immense resources spent by engineers at SpaceX could better go to helping the impoverished.

My position would be more analogous to someone arguing that it's a shame people don't use the service offered by SpaceX to attempt more ambitious projects.

> Furthermore, there is plenty of evidence that singular profound experiences can drive the creation of art or change the nature of an artist's future work.

I did not contradict this.

With regard to an "ivory tower team," I'm just a bit surprised you would think that any competent curator would necessarily be comparable to elitist academics. In actual practice, the kind of respected artists and curators I have in mind are habitually humble and thoughtful people.
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Eh. Triplebyte only recruits for jobs in like three cities.
One "skill" that very much needs practice is skid recovery (for those eventual times when the car, no matter how careful you are being, will want to skid).

It was described in the drivers ed manuals when I got my license, but it is a skill that has to become muscle memory habit (i.e., you don't have time to think "which way do I turn the wheel and how much", you have to "just do"). Without any practice (which was way easier in the 80's with rear wheel drive vehicles) you never got the "touch" down to just turn the wheel the correct direction and amount to recover when the car does start to skid.
> suffers terrible performance problems from the IPFS requirement of hashing

Could you be more specific? We're aware of a good bunch of reasons for IPNS's varying performance, but hashing isn't one of them.
Perhaps. Politicians are far more powerful than CEOs, and have the ability to breakup companies or prohibit their operation.
> the survivor required chemotherapy in addition to removing the immune system suppressants

Ah ... probably they took a "belt and suspenders" approach.
It's hard to make specific recommendations without knowing what kinds of books you typically enjoy. That is, if you want "more like Murakami," that's one thing, but if you want "Japanese authors who write about things I normally enjoy," that's another. If you could explain what you enjoy, that would help us recommend more. :)

As a general shotgun approach at "who's who" in Japanese literature:

Kobo Abe's Woman in the Dunes is a story that's a bit bizarre/unreal; many people I know who like Murakami also like this.

Speaking of "bizarre," Yukio Mishima was quite a character -- aside from that, he was also quite a writer. Patriotism is a great short story from him that's pretty thought-provoking in a lot of ways.

Mishima's Confessions of a Mask is also another book I'd immediately recommend to people looking at Japanese literature. The protagonist is homosexual and somewhat deviant in a number of ways; the book looks at what it means to be "abnormal" and still have to fit into Japanese society (IIRC this was set in pre-war Imperial Japan).

For more modern stuff, Taiyo Fujii's Gene Mapper was a great read and a look at a future where genetic engineering/manipulation is the norm, especially for foodstuffs.
>AND we don't lie to each other

How on earth could you possibly know that?

>so many people on this forum
>polite inherently implies lying

That understanding of "polite" is at least centuries old and spans almost every culture where the concept exists.

There is an entire structure of unwritten social rules that is designed to avoid the not-so-obvious dishonesty of politeness. For instance, in some cultures, it is polite to offer food to a guest, even to the point where a host might offer all food they will have for a week. They obviously do not want to go hungry for the week, but they will feel compelled, in the name of being polite, to offer it anyways. They will also never admit this to a guest, but as a guest if you are aware of their poverty then you will probably try to politely decline the offer, even if you are hungry. You could not in good conscious take the last of their food, but you also do not want to expose your reasons and embarrass them either... it goes on and on. Hopefully you get the point.
It’s presumably being used to serve additional subscribers without having to pay for troublesome capital improvements.
For those who'd rather watch a video of the talk, here is a link to it from Code BEAM SF 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0BR_tWZChQ&list=PLvL2NEhYV4...
If gung-ho on the subject then why not split the difference and lobby the UN or the powers that be to add half an hour to ST in all time zones and eliminate DST? The only ones who might complain are those in Winter who live north of 40N or south of 40S latitude.
I never knew that the Dreamcast's browser (Phantom) could run Java applets. Looking into this more, it looks like Phantom itself was written in Java.

Fascinating! I had no idea about either back in the day.
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If anyone is interested in reading Japanese short stories in native Japanese, even if you’re still learning the language, I’ve built an iOS app that collects various short-form reading materials and lets you tap words to look them up: https://reader.manabi.io

I appreciate any feedback. I have a steady base of users and am looking to expand it further with analytics and level-based recommendations based on the words you know/have read before.
To support your numbers somewhat: iirc at one point about 5 years ago Bing was giving out ~$120 a year in Amazon gift cards if you were a heavy searcher on Bing
"...he wanted me to check the arithmetic not the physics, and left."

That had to have been Teller.
It goes beyond what customers want to the intersection of want & willing to pay for. I find that in a lot of companies, there's a lot of "customers said they want x, so let's build it" vs. "customers said they want x and we've validated that they are willing to pay for that feature." If your customers are not willing to pay, how important was that feature in the first place?
Now, imagine a blood donor with occult disease... To my knowledge a case of carcinoma (epithelial cell origin) transmitted via blood donation has not been recorded yet, however, hematologic maligancies are theoretically very possible.
> a 20 million megaton bomb (which is to say, a bomb with the yield equivalent to 200 teratons of TNT, or a bomb 2 million times more powerful than the Tsar Bomba’s full yield). If we assumed that such a weapon had even a fantastically efficient yield-to-weight ratio like 50 kt/kg, that’s still a device that would weigh around a billion metric tons
"Also learned not to fuck with the cartels" you seriously had to learn this
I started a consumer robotics company with no more than a software and hobbyist robotics background. The grand plan was to sell furry robot pets and we got as far as the prototype stage and a demo at Maker Faire. After that we hit a huge wall. There is essentially no path from hobbyist, off the shelf components to a real product.

After that company died I joined a real robotics startup with some seriously talented founders. They had already built out several robots and had the core skills (mechanical engineering, software engineering, electrical eng, and controls) to design and build a working robot. More importantly though they knew the process to make a robot real which involves personal contacts at custom component suppliers, the right outfit to do engineering review, how to raise enough money to get the kind of runway hardware needs. And on and on.

Moral of the story, you can't fake hardware. Get experienced people on board from day one or your going to flounder and most likely die.
I am towards the end of wrapping my startup. There were 3 main failure reasons -

a. could not build a good team,

b. co-founder was not 100% committed,

c. picked target market in the geography which I was new to. Although it was my home country, the way to do business and lack of professional network became hindrance.