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I capitalized Democratic for a reason. I'm talking about the Democratic Party specifically.
Chesapeake Bay is not in a costal county list of hurricane zones because it isn't in a county.
Wish I could, but I get most of my news from traditional media.

I remember there was a meat packing plant in Colorado a few years ago. I tried Google News, but it's apparently incapable of showing anything but the most recent stories.
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Another related one: having friends become colleagues can be challenging.
I third this recommendation! I listened to it in audio book form -- narrated by the author himself -- a real pleasure!
This has nothing to do with immigrants, brexit, Trump, etc.

And in many countries, these policies have been done for over a decade with no obvious voter backlash.
Similar experience for me - I signed up for the kitchen sink and learnt nothing new. It's a cool product and cool tech, but I saw no benefits.

I suppose if the reports showed _something_ unusual, it could have been worth the effort, so being disappointed is actually a good outcome.
One thing I'd add: Head-up-display. Project the most important information up to the bottom of the windshield so I don't have to look away.

This would be particularly useful with a lane-keeping solution, where it could show exactly where it thinks the lane is - overlaid right on top of the actual lane, using perspective skew to match the driver's view.
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I thought it was great, I found out I'm 43% native american.
At some point, you will be confronted with a problem (a bug most likely), and you think it is beyond your ability to fix. Do not give up. If you can't figure out what's wrong, figure out what isn't wrong, and keep figuring out what isn't wrong. This may not feel like progress, but it is. Do not go to your dev lead and say "this one is beyond me". Say "I'm stuck, but I've tried X, Y and Z, and it's none of those things. Do you have any ideas?"

Biggest issue I find with developers right out of school, is that they often feel ok throwing a problem over the wall to a more senior dev. The truth is, all of us are confronted with problems we don't know how to solve. That is the job, but if we don't solve them, who will? You will not magically discover an ability to solve impossible problems and diagnose inscrutable bugs. But if you don't give up, and you fight your way through these problems again and again, you will develop confidence, and the instincts that allow you to do it a bit quicker next time.

On a related note, do NOT rejoice when a bug you've been struggling with suddenly goes away (another thing I've seen many times). Nasty bugs "going away" is one of the worst things that can happen. I promise you, 90% of the time it's coming back. And it's coming back at the worst possible moment, and possibly in a less friendly form.
Are you arguing that these countries are the same as the United States?
What about 40 years from now?
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Yes, that's right, https://m.signalvnoise.com/things-are-going-so-well-were-doi... (January 31), but now they're hiring a data analyst, https://m.signalvnoise.com/basecamp-is-hiring-a-data-analyst... (September 21).
If I'm a white male, but I have the brain scan of a Latino grandmother, does that count as diversity in the workplace?
Wait until driverless cars hit the road.
I have a lifelong philosophy of getting to about the 80th percentile of proficiency of any given activity, craft, sport, etc.

A lot of the enjoyment I get from new things is in the rapid rate of improvement while learning and developing. After about the 80th percentile, diminishing returns kind of curse the activity, which is meant to provide leisure, pleasure, and well being. When it becomes a curse, those attributes are diminished.

Also, to be in the 80th percentile, you could probably 'hang' with any range of folks involved in the thing, and if I ever want to get back into it after a break, it'll come back.

Anyways, B- is quite satisfactory.
The question is whether or not cars with L2 systems have a lower accident rate than cars without them. As with L4 systems, they don't need to be perfect - just better than we are.
Btw I think health insurance is the biggest problem here, in the US.

As long as the ACA exists, health insurance is available. It's just a cost of being self employed.

On the other hand, it's even easier if you have a spouse that works a stable job. I know a few people (including me) that have spouses that work a low paying government job just for the insurance so they can be more aggressive about their career or start a business. Since I've been married, I've jumped back and forth between working salaried and contracting with abandon.
Good point, but how much of that is the manufacturer pre-compensating itself for all the extra maintenance that it won't sell you?
I use (and pay for) Standard Notes. The philosophy of the project is amazing which is the main reason I support it. Currently it lacks some of the features I would need to commit 100% to it. But, it's slowly and steadily improving.

If we can get support for self-contained inline images/attachments, and inter-note linking then I'll be all-in.
Pretty neat from an archive standpoint. Have something scrape that page every day and you end up with the top 30 daily results in a easy to read format.
We're building some key tools to implement over the next weeks.

Need feedback on:
- UI/UX
- Features to be added (we have a few coming over the next few weeks too)
- Demand-side marketing

We launched mid-June and currently have 5,000+ vendors

and basically anything else.

PS: We do plan to expand IF we nail our first market (Nigeria)
Pitch it to Linus. An endorsement like that could be a huge marketing boost.

"With Should I Send It? I don't sound like a huge jerk whenever someone tries to get a patch merged that's fucking braindead^W^Wnot up to kernel quality standards. Thanks, Should I Send It?!"

I'm being lighthearted, but not really joking: Linus is really looking for something like this to help keep the rage down in his correspondemce.
One thing stands out in all of that: he's still pushing to master. Change starts at the top with leadership and then some accountability. Either start looking for a new gig or really embrace "continuous improvement" and start with much much smaller fights.
So, 10+ 9/11 equivalents (compared on number of deaths) in one year.
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I refuse to be paralyzed by a future so distant it's opaque. I'll be in my 70s at that point, and either dead, head in a jar, or living on Mars. My genetic data may help people today, and that is what matters most to me.

EDIT: @monocasa: The future is what we make of it.

jstarfish: As a parent, I have to make what I consider to be the best choices for them until they're able to make their own choices. As an educated parent, I believe I made the appropriate choice. Everyone's DNA will be sequences eventually.
Is there any thing developers do for you that you wish they wouldn't? I usually try to use the standards when designing websites but everything seem to come from 1980.
what qualities do you feel make it so?
That's interesting. Been at their Hungarian office for a job interview (Hortonworks, a year or so ago), it was weird though. Haven't tried Cloudera, but they too have an office at Budapest, I wonder how it will effect their workforce in the region.
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Take Python which is a language with a continually growing number of frameworks. Those frameworks take care of the majority of the grunt work that developers have traditionally had to do. The API extensibility of those frameworks it the modern COTS experience. Those APIs are all destined for the cloud and the majority of your functionality will be consumed by those cloud APIs. Your job as a programmer is merely to sow a few of those APIs together to create a shim layer of functionality with a pretty user interface.

When you get to this level of simplicity then the human factor can be quickly replaced. That's where robotics comes in.
As a network engineer I would be really interested in learning some real world info about what ISPs are operating in Gaza, what their ASNs and IP space are, where their upstreams are (both network topologically, BGP adjacencies/other larger ASes, and at OSI layer 1).

If there is anyone reading this who is physically located in Gaza and using a local ISP, I could get a lot of info if you just google "what is my IP", go to one of the first few links, and reply with the results. You don't have to send your exact IP, to the /24 level of accuracy is enough.
I wasn't saying anything about EU cars -- why are you bringing that up?

I am skeptical of the 37mpg claim because it seems clear to me that the average car sold in the US isn't that efficient. What's the contradiction?
What are these non-crop-based vegetable subsidies you speak of?
I think its just an observation of the outcome of a real world change. People put effort into reducing food waste and the outcome is reduced food for the poor. I think the question is, was it worth it?
So, do you have any thoughts on the substance?
I wonder what a $2 trillion war on car crashes would look like.
Oh wow I had no idea, I will be keeping an eye out for those! Thanks for the links!
Even in the USA the reality is much more nuanced.

The USA of 1776 is quite different from today. I think one of the big breaks was about states rights causing the civil war and effectively reconstituting the country.
Even something like free speech (probably one of more unique things about USA) actually has its formulation in the 20th century. There are more obvious things like constitutional amendments or changes in interpretation.

Finally of course the USA is a creation of not abiding to the rules and traditions of the UK.

The laws of the past are not a tyrant over us and should not be.
> most of your population is treated like a second-class minority

... as evidenced by not being on corporate boards?

The only relevant statistic is what percentage of board-eligible people are women vs their actual representation on boards.

Unless you believe corporate boards should reflect the composition of the population at large?
There is a lot of designers that are not that good at design either...
Some are just temps, interns, wrongly hired or have switched roles in the company.

And when you target (web) applications, a developer might even have more experience with the UX as a user and designer!

Each case depends on the qualities of the people involved.
Americans, but not Canadians, can also have a second passport if they request it from the state department. Commonly used for people who need to travel to Israel and have Israeli stamps/visas in their passport, but also travel to arab boycott countries for business.
The compiled binaries can end up in a Chinese DC, but the source? I don't understand why. I don't think Google's interested in being replaced.
> "People especially here constantly rail against Europe"

> "our cities"

Where is "here" and "our cities"?
> You need to manage cashflow, you need customers to become aware of the product or service and buy it, you need to be able to do things at a lower cost than your selling price, you need to keep proper records, pay wages, pay taxes, pay debts, manage inventory.

Half these things take under a few days to learn sufficiently for any business with ARR under ~$1M. And you can anyway hire people to fill in the gaps in your own knowledge for basically peanuts.

And there's no MBA program that will teach you strategies that are especially useful in reaching customers - if there was a professor who really could teach that, (s)he'd be monetizing that skillset instead.

All this depends on your goals. I want to make that very clear. There is almost no value to an MBA for someone intending to build something from the ground up. There is potentially tremendous value for someone looking to have a career in business at larger companies.
Especially since it’s on track to being a commodity technology.
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> toys for people who have too much money on their hands

Sounds like the future of privately owned motor vehicles. In maybe 20 years or so I expect most people will be getting around in self driving cars that they hire.
I guess it's all down to if you care more about type 1 errors or type 2 errors. If the only source for a fact is a site known for factual errors then it might be reasonable to reject that fact until more evidence presents itself. Personally I think Wikipedia should be more strict in general with what sources they allow, and require more independent sources before updating anything 'news' related, even if that means being a few days out of date at times.
There are very few jobs that allow one to be productive most of the day (and almost invariably they are low-paying). This is indeed shocking to discover in your first jobs after college, etc.

Rather than goofing on FB, I'd look for ways to learn new skills (that ideally somehow might help your employer in the future). Or, alternatively, to find side projects that might aid the organization.

Ultimately it's your manager's job to determine whether you're sufficiently productive. Not yours.
Thanks for posting about MonoMan! I'd never seen that before. I needed a good dose of artful joy. This technique can also be applied to our rhythmic cadences of speech as demonstrated by my friend Dan Weiss, playing the drum interpretation of the FedEx guy commercial: https://youtu.be/mIIP4zIi4DM
To all self-driving companies testing on public road, even Waymo, which is the current leader: [1]

Why don’t you develop/deploy a face and eye tracking system to detect if the test driver is dozing off or otherwise not paying enough attention and act accordingly? (Warn first, and if needed, take the car to a safe spot and stop.)

The system should be useful in real deployment with passenger/driver on board as well, since the self-driving car needs to know if it should obey human’s manual command, which should also depend on the person’s state of attention at the moment.

[1] Waymo’s self-driving car crashed because its human driver fell asleep at the wheel https://qz.com/1410928/waymos-self-driving-car-crashed-becau...

[2] In addition, we all heard about the case which the test driver was watching a movie and a pedestrian was killed.
Cloudflare uses both Cap'n Proto serialization and RPC, though at present the serialization is used by a lot more systems than the RPC is. Serialization is most notably used in the logging aggregation pipeline, though shows up in a number of places as well. At present the only place I'm aware of RPC being used is the control protocol for Argo Tunnel (the tool which lets your web server connect to Cloudflare, rather than the usual arrangement where Cloudflare connects to the web server, hence letting it stay behind a firewall with no public IP). We're investigating more use cases, though, particularly around IPC (communicating between processes on the same machine) and Workers (communicating between sandboxes in the same process), both places where zero-copy is likely to shine. I'm also excited by the possibilities for capability-based interaction between Workers.

(I'm the tech lead for Cloudflare Workers and also the creator of Cap'n Proto, though Cloudflare was using Cap'n Proto long before I joined. And yes, Mark Miller is a friend and I worked with him on the RPC design.)
I think 50 years from now we're going to look at this fatality rate much like we look at 1930s-1950s era cigarette advertising, or pre-antiseptic era medieval medical practices like bloodletting.
Don't be afraid to ask for help. But don't ask for help until you've made an honest ever to figure it out yourself. You learn best when someone isn't spoon-feeding you the answers.

Your project will be cancelled and your team will be reorganized. The manager you love to work for will leave.

The most important part of writing software is being able to understand it. You should be able to understand it when you're writing it, debugging it, and six months after you haven't touched it. Other people should be able to understand it. That principal informs the following rules:

1. Code for simplicity first. Do the simplest thing that can possibly work. For whatever reason in this industry, people are seduced by cleverness and complexity. You're doing a job, not trying to prove how smart you are. Clever code that is hard to understand isn't smart. The problem you're working on is probably simple. Don't try to make it fun and sexy when it isn't. Don't make something harder than it is because it would be cool to use the new shiny ____ to write it.

2. Don't repeat yourself. This is the opposite of simplicity, and your problems compound the more you do it.

3. If you have code that you are afraid to change for fear of breaking it, you've failed to make it simple and understandable. All the testing in the world won't help you if you don't understand the black box, and need to change the black box.

4. Code for readability. If you can't look at a line of code or an error message and understand what's going on, you've failed to make it simple and understandable enough. Functional code helps here; if you have to navigate between 50 different files to understand what a function is doing, something is wrong.

5. YAGNI. You will never, ever, ever need the thing you're about to spend time on and that dramatically increases the code complexity. If you ever do, it's much easier to refactor something simple than it is to work around something complex that made the wrong assumptions. Build systems in small steps.

6. Use the compiler and type system. Everything should be as strongly typed as possible to prevent future you from messing things up. The compiler is your best friend; make it work for you and write code so that when you inevitably have to change it, the type system prevents you from making a mistake.

7. Get good at debugging. This is a skill that you develop that nobody teaches you for whatever reason. When you're writing code while thinking about how it will be easily debuggable later, you're doing it right.

8. Use spaces instead of tabs. You'll make more money. Also turn on visible whitespace in whatever editor you're using and delete those silly extra spaces on the end of lines. I can see those and they're the code equivalent of walking out of the restroom with toilet paper on your shoe.
Thanks, that is close to what I had.
I think many cars have fatigue detection systems already.
This appears to be the Colorado meat packing plant the parent mentioned.

https://www.denverpost.com/2013/01/14/fear-from-swift-plant-...
Yes these are all things I have proposed but I just get stonewalled by the founder and the two senior engineers. I am debating just implementing the block without their approval - because it would seriously help the company - but I don't want to seem aggressive or confrontational?
Interesting statistic, way more Americans are killed each year by slipping and falling in the bathtub than by terrorism.
I hope you are using someone else to judge how clean your code is. (Maybe you are, maybe it is). I have come across very little self documenting code outside of a textbook. Code is a very low level medium. In the meantime a comment can help save a lot of time.
Are you arguing that Brexit and Poland happened in the US?
Vivaldi is another candidate equally as good as Chrome.
Love the last point. If you can internalize and truly understand this as a junior developer you will stand out among your peers, since many people can go through a whole career without ever learning to always assume the original authors of a piece of code were competent and well-intentioned.
It looks like this was filed already: https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/zst...
We've seen police using this information without warrants.

Of course, we've also seen them reconstructing likely genetics from family members on these sites, so it doesn't really matter whether you personally opt in or not.
It was a little bit dated in 2016 too to be honest.
Yea I am looking around but I really like the product and I thought this would an opportunity to put my skills to the test since it all essentially greenfield. But if I can't get approval from the guy who hired me then it seems moot.
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10 years ago, or "that time I pretend was just 10 years ago"? I confuse those two all the time.

Actual ten years ago, in 2008, Japan had long lost the halo of being the dominant economic force of the future it had through most of the 1980ies and 1990ies. In 2008, Tesla was already selling the Roadster, the iPhone wasn't new anymore, the The Matrix sequels were already older than the original movie had been at the time of their release. Another twenty years earlier, we all watched Bruce Willis chase German terrorists through Nakatomi Plaza, that's when Japan was "The Future".
By the time we're in our 70s, we'll probably not even have retired. : \
You don't know shit about subsidies. Kindly shut up.
Your comment strongly suggests that won't be the case, so I wouldn't worry about it.
Those don't seem to fit the application I'm thinking of but thanks for trying.

I sometimes carry a notepad and pen, but I thought something might exist - electronic - but with the speed and flexibility of an analog pad and pen - then I could incorporate ideas with orgmode or other organization software.

Literally I wanted to be making notes a moment after thinking a thought - no lag of any sort.
that’s what they wanted you to think ;)
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First moon discovered outside of the solar system
Mmm, somehow I doubt that this will end up benefiting workers/job candidates vs employers
Here's a good example. This tweet from a respected Dr. is really unfortunate.

"But it’s called the Presidential Alert because Trump has a huge ego. And he loves his intruding into our lives without consent."

https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1047562343503122432

He states it as though it's fact. Now many of his 200,000+ followers also think that, if they didn't already.

I might've also believed that if I didn't do the work to look it up.
Toyota's hybrid system differs from trains in that there's a direct mechanical connection from the engine to the wheels, boosting efficiency by not requiring all of the power to go through the motors.
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How does this compare to elsewhere in the world, in some comparable metric (e.g deaths per driven distance or hour)?
Driver monitoring is an area of active development.
Why wouldn't they be already? If that person is still a high functioning adult then they have an accessible insight to people you and I do not.
Did you consider Safari? It’s super battery efficient.