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The executives who think good developers are "expensive" are generally happy to throw gobs of money at BPO firms to do the job half as well as in-house staff for twice as much money.

Besides which, an employee with a fully-loaded cost of $200k/yr can be sent to a one-week external class for well under $15k including salary, tuition, travel, and expenses. That's far less than the cost of acquiring and onboarding that employee; and if you don't care to train your staff, they'll jump ship for an employer that doesn't suck the stars out of the sky.
This is awesome! I'd love to use Fastai, but my company's pretty committed to Tensorflow right now. Is there any work being done to port Fastai over to Tensorflow?
The early universe was ridiculously homogeneous. We can infer this with reasonable certainty from the extreme homogeneity of the CMB and from the gravitational instability of density fluctuations: as you expect, they attract more mass and accrete to form stars and galaxies. So if you start from the universe as it looks now and run time backwards, you get ridiculous homogeneity at the bang.

And that's why you didn't get a giant black hole. There was a lot of mass at very high density, and gravity was pulling very hard at it - but it was pulling (almost exactly) equally hard in all directions.
I don't want to be a buzz kill, but how does this differ than HAM radio? Frequently it is people just talking on a specific frequency. They organize their own chat rooms and stuff. Some of these groups have members from all over the world. Or are you suggesting this be done without licensing? Because that's a legal problem, not a technical one.
Freedom, right?

Oh, really?

I am one of the hardest working people I have ever met, people can (hyperbolically) say I work more than a hundred hours per week. But that's easy to say when you're full-time, and you leave early for that errand or come in late to drop the kid off at daycare, and then make a few hours at night. When you are tracking your hours, suddenly making 60 real hours is hard, or even 40 real hours for that matter.

(I'm still in a privileged position, so no real complaints.)
Traefik[1] is written in Golang, which is technically a (depending on your viewpoint) memory-safe language. It has a pretty decent adoption rate, has a reasonable story for being built on battle-tested libraries, and has a pretty good reputation.

Haskell has yesod[2] but I don't think there's a variant of that dedicated to nginx- or haproxy-esque reverse proxy duties.

[1] https://github.com/containous/traefik

[2] https://www.yesodweb.com/
I remember reading recently about heat sinks for AC units that expel waste heat in as specific infrared band that sees the atmosphere as entirely transparent. In effect, it allows you to 'beam' the waste heat directly to space.

Similar to an AC unit, I would love to see two-part refrigerators. It always seemed dumb to me to cool the interior of your refrigerator by dumping heat into your home, which your AC has to then extract and dump outside. A refrigerator that had an external heat exchanger that could be placed outside, or shared with the AC heat exchanger, would be pretty spectacular.
As pointed out this isn't what happens, but even if vendors did ship Coreboot it'd have the same behaviour (because that's what the vendors want) and you still wouldn't be able to reflash it because they'd still be using Boot Guard. Coreboot isn't some magical freedom enhancing technology that can be sprinkled on a platform to make it respect its users, in the same way that the use of Linux in Android doesn't guarantee any strong user benefits over the iOS kernel.
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Does Office in touch mode work as well as on the iPad Pro, say?

Do I have to go around telling each app that supports touch mode to go to touch mode, or is there a way I can configure it centrally?
I'll look into it, probably will need to run Google closure compiler on the JavaScript code.
This is nice because uBlock Origin is available for multiple browsers.
I think the implication was pretty clear that coreboot plus the ability to reflash your firmware is necessary.
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Mudding is a fucking pain in the ass. There's no other way to describe the utter frustration of what you are about to embark on.
You assume it didn't. Perhaps the universe as we know it is the inside of a black-hole.
I'd probably rephrase "not" to "less". Haskell is sufficiently unlike other languages that a lot of knowledge/skills that are usually transferable between languages don't apply to it. That means you need to (re-)learn how to solve those problems in Haskell if you want to use it.

The end result is _usually_ better (e.g. Lenses are in almost all cases an improvement over getters and setters; Functors, Monads and Traversable are an improvement over imperative control flow), but damn it it doesn't take a while to get your head around those concepts.
I have been telling myself this, but it's small comfort. :) I am aware that interviews generally have about a 1/5 success rate overall. Since I've done "only" 6 onsites, that means that I should have an expected 74% chance of a job offer so far. I would be truly worried if I had failed 10 or 11 onsites in a row. As of now, I'm just... concerned. :/
I'm not sure I disagree with you in this specific case, but I think it's fairly easy to tweak some of the details (is there identification in the wallet? Is it obvious it's been missing for an extended period? What if it's not money, but some possession?) and vastly change the percentage of people that would respond one way or another, even when there might not really be much ethical difference.

That said, I was mostly pointing towards what I see as an explanation for the difference in attitudes regarding wealth and poverty and how it intersects with peoples opinions of personal responsibility, which I think does have a place in that scenario, even if it's not always the primary driver.
>The good guys being those that ordered Intel into compliance with such requirements.

There is vast case law surrounding our first amendment right to refuse this kind of coercion. No one can force you to present something as yours against your will (at least, if they want it to hold up in court).

What is more likely is that Intel won a great many more government contracts by doing this. They'd make tons of money doing it, so they did it. And if they didn't do it, their competitor would. That's how the system works in this country.

We shouldn't excuse them so readily.
Sorry if this question is naive or ignorant or just doesn't make sense; but could this dark matter be influence from higher "spatial" dimensions that we can't see? I mean - doesn't string theory demand something like 10 dimensions in total?
I went to a racially diverse HS as well in Vicksburg that was 60% black, 49% white. n-bombs were dropped all the time, outside of band mixing was rare. Even the neighborhoods were pretty segregated (whites mostly living out in the county, blacks mostly in the city). The next county west across the river was where David duke had all his political support. Our experiences differ significantly (MS, LA, and AL are also bottom ranked states for issues like this).

It is hard to consider the south as a monolithic entity. Some states are way behind others.
'The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. [...] when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'
Has HAProxy cleaned up their dynamic reload issues? I am a pretty big fan having used HAProxy in production, but compared to the relative simplicity of "nginx -s reload" the restart complexity of HAProxy always gives me pause.
That's a great example. At that point, it's up to the family and the son to negotiate what's acceptable. Ultimately, whatever arrangement they choose, the family unit benefits.

I think where this analogy breaks down and becomes gray area in modern society is when the group unit that benefits gets too large to ascertain where the gains are accruing.

We're biologically wired to optimally deal with groups of ~150 or fewer people.
Because geniuses are often precocious.

Here's a critical review from Steven Pinker that criticizes the kind of reasoning Gladwell uses in this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/books/review/Pinker-t.htm...
Herbert Hoover (and Lou Hoover)'s translation of De Re Metallica is still both useful and in print a century later.

http://store.doverpublications.com/0486600068.html
> Generics in the runtime not the compiler (c# 2)

> Functional deeply integrated into a mainstream language (LINQ c# 3)

> Unified graphical application model incorporating all main styles of web, forms, svg, and 3d. (WPF .net 3.5)

> Compiler language services (c# 5)

> Async await (c# 5)
I thought it was going to be about Air NZ Flight 901. But it was about a boat.

Things called Erebus seem to be a problem :)
This is an important question with a slightly surprising answer.

First you need to understand that the Big Bang was not an explosion of matter into space, it was an explosion of matter and space (technically space-time). This might be hard to wrap your head around, it might be easier to think about space-time as non-infinite, say curving back on itself like the surface of a balloon (though as far as we can tell it is infinite).

Second, during the early Universe just after the Big Bang when the energy density of the Universe was incredibly high the density was nevertheless incredibly uniform. So, let's say you are inside a soup of matter and energy with a density as high or higher than the core of a star, but there is matter in every direction, what way is gravity pulling you? This is the other non-intuitive bit, gravity isn't pulling you in any direction. Pick a volume of matter in space around you and consider how its gravity affects you, for every single volume there is a corresponding volume on the opposite side of you that has exactly the same mass and is exactly as far away from you, cancelling out the gravity from the first chunk. And this is true for every single bit of volume around you, there's a 1:1 mapping of bits of stuff around you with other bits of stuff on the opposite side of you which exactly counterbalances the gravitational force from the first bit. The gravitational field is uniform, so nothing collapses, no black holes form, no stars or planets form either.

It's only after the Universe continues to expand and minute variations in local density are gradually amplified (over millions of years) into denser and denser clumps that it becomes possible to form galaxies and galaxy clusters/super-clusters (and thus black holes).

Now, we don't know for sure whether or not there were isolated little "super clumps" of extra density in the early Universe which allowed for the formation of black holes prior to the formation of galaxies (so-called primordial black holes). That's one theory for explaining the existence of supermassive and especially ultramassive black holes, but it's unconfirmed. However, now it seems as though we have enough evidence to show that primordial black holes can't be the explanation for the evidence for dark matter.
Maybe you mean 'Noble' and not 'noble'.

Nobles wouldn't work because that was for serfs.

But work has for a long time been considered noble, also, if you consider the kind of work we do not as not so much 'labour' i.e. creative endeavor, then it's even closer to both 'nobole' and 'Noble'.
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I do think your analysis here is a bit shallow.

- Scala is not an easy language to learn unless you just use it as a "better Java" with syntactic sugar, in which case it cannot be considered to be in the same class as Haskell. The same is true of many other languages folks are proposing, like Clojure or F#. It might be easier to bang something out with Clojure than Haskell, but I don't think it's any easier to master than Haskell.

- Your estimate of the cost (hundreds of thousands of dollars) assumes there's no benefit to the switch. There may or may not be, but you didn't even account for that possibility.

- Highly efficient engineers are also efficient at learning new tools, frameworks, IDEs, etc., because for many developers that's part of daily life.
What about countries where drugs have been decriminalized?
Yes, 'Disproof' does not apply, as mentioned, it would be about validation/invalidation.
Should definitely phrase this differently then with 'is'.

Okei, we have these facts. An 'actual object' does not equate to a term for it. To use what was in the blog post (which, will be restated :)

The term chair does not equate to the actual underlying objective process/es termed chair.

Stating that 'a chair is a chair' is neither true nor false,
because we cannot talk about the actual underlying processes only describe them with terms (as nothing can be it's own sign).

And you're correct in that we cannot use a 'proof' or 'disproof' in relation to that. They would signify conceptions and as you've said the Law of Identity enters.

Do you have any suggestion for how one might rephrase this with greater coherency? It will be most welcome.

As 'proof' clearly belongs to conceptions, and it is not valid in relation to this, as you mentioned.

The thinking is coherent, but how does one state this properly.
Or succinctly.

If we say that "A chair is a chair"
then ask if a chair is the Word chair?

We get a No, "the chair is not the word chair",
or Yes, "the chair is the word chair"
which would clearly be delusional, the basis for many mental illnesses, confusing a Word with a 'Thing'.
(Ascribing objective existence and values to terms)

Then "a chair is not a chair" but since "a chair is a chair"
we are at an impasse.

Would you say this is a valid outcome? Or invalid?
Or something else?

Thank you i appreciate your feedback
Seems like a very weak justification to me. I'm sure it's easier to hire an engineer who can write idiomatic scala than idiomatic haskell.

But all that is aside from my main point, which was changing tools on people is almost never justified. Unless you're writing a web app in ASM, you usually should stick with your language.
Let me rephrase your question:

Is there a way to ask Facebook to completely change their business model and lose all revenue?
"Mass" is just another name for "rest-energy".

A single photon cannot have mass because it has zero energy in the reference frame where it is at rest (zero net momentum). But a pair of non-parallel photons can have rest-mass, and indeed the mass of the photons inside a star is considerable, for example.
> I feel like this is intentionally obtuse.

There was a bit of exaggeration for effect there, but my point is that a few dollars above minimum wage may be a big percentage rise in your opinion, but is still not a good wage. They go from "hardly able to afford food" to "maybe able to not live paycheck to paycheck - until something unforeseen happens".

edit: offtopic because you said they wanted less hours but I'm leaving it there:

Maybe they wanted to enjoy spending some of their newfound discretionary income on something other than rent and bills. Or maybe they wanted to go from a shitbox car that needs repairs to a slightly better shitbox car. Or a million other things they've been waiting until they have the cash for.

I feel like you may be a bit out of touch on how close to the edge someone living on slightly over minimum wage actually is. There's a thousand things they might need to spend that extra cash on. It costs more to be poor.

back on-topic

I know you said they wanted to reduce their hours but from my own experiences when I was doing shitty jobs I honestly felt that I wasn't being paid enough for my time so as long as I can earn enough to eat and pay the rent, I'd rather just have the time to do what I want, because (at least to me), that free time is really what makes life worth living at all.

So, at least in my case, an incremental raise to a sandwich workers wage wouldn't be enough for me to still want to exchange my time for that money.

Now I'm being paid well so I have enough incentive to keep me from wanting to reduce my hours because I can see progress being made, but only just... Maybe I overvalue my time but at the end of the day, time is all we have, and it's limited.

A few extra dollars per hour isn't going to change someone from a sandwich maker just above the poverty line into some trust fund baby that has the time and spending money to do extra courses and start being an entrepreneur.

I know what you're saying about them having (slightly) more of an avenue to success with a raise but there's always more that any of us can do to improve our lot in life, if we have the energy. Arguably poor people have more demands on their time, so I feel that looking at the poorest workers and saying, "why don't they do better" is a bit unfair.

Also, how do you know what they did with their extra time?
No one knows anything in big companies

Lots of smart, talented and energetic people are expending most of their power just figuring out who to talk to about what or what the hell that out-of-the-blue email from corporate finance means for them.

Just figuring out how to get a thing done can be exhausting.
Scanning over responses so far I think a relevant aspect is not underlined strongly enough -- the lack of expertise in some of the key positions in companies "to move things". The status quo prevails. Play it safe, don't shake the boat, bring in Gartner or some such consultant on strategy, and hum along. In the end, outsource a project with internal fanfare (bringing relief to people concerned). This happens all too often.

This is how life goes, and as some here pointed out already, even if large inefficiencies are unaddressed a company can be profitable for significant time because of an established market position, brand, extensive regulations in place to protect their interests, some little known high profit products, etc. However give it time, and we see them fade away when upstarts take the risks, have the vision, shake up their market one piece at a time. And the cycle repeats.
That population number is for the entire county, the urban city will be much smaller (about 1 million). I’m not sure what you are counting for yours. Note we live in the states these days, just my wife has hukou in Chenzhou.
People can use a service and then vote to regulate that service, believe it or not.
>Our company culture is the complete opposite of that. We want people to help each other. We want people to challenge how things are done. We want to change things all the time, experiment, see what works.

OK, so you are explicitly making this a part of the job description. Which, arguably, was not the case for that particular employee at that particular job.

>If someone with this attitude worked for me, I'd get rid of them ASAP.

When people are "got rid of ASAP" for their attitude and not due to their performance, that's more than reason enough to keep silent about, well, everything.

Because who knows what kind of attitude the boss might have on that day, or seek from their employees.

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Now on the me-note: in my current job, I do my best to automate and document processes to save my and my co-workers' time. But, unlike in the case above, that's my job as a software engineer. And I know that when I make things better, I am rewarded - either with a thank-you, a bonus, or joy from improving my own work flow. I don't have to fear being reprimanded or fired for that.

In my previous job, which was a Teaching Assistantship, I went over and beyond trying to improve things (I rewrote the lab assignments that everyone hated, and turned them into something useful and enjoyable) - and got hit with a plain, literal, "it's not your job" from the administration when trying to push these changes. Initiative was unwelcome there.

The moral? I've seen both sides. If you are the manager, it's on you. You create the environment where people will be either eager to be improving things, or will be scared to try (and will keep mum if they do).

>All businesses must move forward, lest they die in the dust.

And so do the employees.

>The old cushy 9-5 job where you just do the same thing over and over your whole career is dying out quickly.

Indeed, and that's why people move on to other jobs. I think the puzzle will solve itself once you put yourself in the shoes of the person your story was about.

>We don't want people sitting around saying ... 'I wasnt hired for that'

But surely you hire people for something? I hope you don't expect your software engineers to, say, clean toilets - and vice versa. And if you do, I hope you pay your cleaning staff as much as you pay your engineers.

Which, again, was not the case in the story you posted (the person doing the automation was neither expected to do it, nor was paid at the level that people whose job it is are).
I can entirely agree on that experience. I got into machine tools, and in looking for pieces and accessories on craigslist, I ran into someone who's become quite a mentor to me. He rebuilds crashed CNC machines, serious ones worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The skills he taught me for free, just because I was interested, are shared by maybe, maybe ten thousand people in the world. That kind of friendliness is hard to come by in anybody, but I definitely see it more in the older generations (I'm 27, he's in his very early 60's).

As a sibling comment points out, I think some of that is the maturity that comes with age -- someone over 50 just doesn't have any interest in competing with a 25 year old on a hobby, or at least they have a much lower average interest in that competition. But some of it is just that at 25 you don't have enough time invested in a hobby or a pastime to have a whole lot to contribute to someone just getting into it. You also haven't spent years looking for other members of your weird, niche community. For a good, easily accessible example of this, stop by your local HAM radio club and talk to the definitely-older-than-your-average-startup-employee guys there about what it takes to get licensed and how many young people are getting into the hobby...
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