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> Most "techies going to work for google" or any other tech firm, are not going to get rich, in the Bill Gates or Larry Ellison sense.

You're describing 2 of the 10 richest billionaires in the world. Most people in general are not going to get that rich, most rich people are not going to get that rich, and nobody is going to get that rich by joining a company that has 100 or more employees already.

Gates, Ellison, Allen, Ballmer, Bezos, etc. are the richest 1% of the richest 1% of the richest 1%, and then some. There is tons of room in the category of "rich" that doesn't involve being particularly close to their level. Sure, you won't be able to single-handedly afford a professional sports franchise, but you'll be rich.
>I would say to OP that usually if a place is interesting, it won't be cheap as there is more demand for it.

You do have a point there, but I think what skews this picture somewhat is language barriers. Everyone learns English in school and English is the language of academia, so all else being equal, the demand for English speaking locations is bound to be greater than for other destinations.
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some people are just good with explaining stuff,
re: " These days we also have an NYC office, but we refer to it as "the Internet cafe", about 20 of our 70 people "so happen" to work out of there regularly..."

It would be interesting to know:

- How many other distributed companies have a similar arrangement (i.e., a non-distributed "HQ")?

- Does this make employees more productive and/or satisfied?

- When on the journey does it make sense to transition from centralized to distributed?

- Are distributed orgs more (or less) likely to outsource commodity-esque (e.g., bookkeeping) services?
Kudos to the author of this post - it takes a lot of skill to explain complex concepts like this, let alone in plain enough english that someone not skilled in the art could follow along.

WebAssembly is one of those technologies where we haven't seen the true extent of its capabilities yet. This is an exciting time to be working in browsers.
Interestingly, a recent study indicates that seems to be more form than function.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/beards-now-p...
So in this vein, what ever came of the Panama Papers / Paradise Papers? I admit to not keeping careful track, but I don't recall any reforms resulting in the U.S.
That's interesting. My mistake, then. I had cited it from memory of talking to some Canonical staff during my own interview processes, where it seemed to me that it was fully distributed and driven by a non-profit mission (namely: sustaining salaries for F/OSS contributors).
I didn't think anything in my comment was condescending or "looking down" on the profession or him. Just stating that this is an astronomical difference in earnings potential and savings rate. And is $110k as a software sales rep and $110k as a software developer any different really? The important part is going from banking $35k in savings to earning $31k or less.
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As an Alan, I'm not sure how I feel about this.
I haven't had any problems with the GE Classic LEDs:

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What the widget does or whom it is for is not my main concern. What is my concern is interesting puzzles for problem solving before I move on to the next widget. Widget building at a startup in not it as I won't make a profit. I want to see the money in my bank account every two weeks so I can put food on the table.

In the words of Jerry McGuire: Show me the $$$!
He only spent one paragraph complaining about perf and promo. I'm not convinced he worked there.
This article makes it sound like Spark needs to be run on Hadoop clusters and that's not the case. Spark can be run on object stores like AWS S3 and Azure.

I also don't agree with the author's assertion that Spark is "Scala centric". Yes, Spark is written in Scala, but PySpark is definitely a first class citizen. Databricks maintains a MLFlow project to make it easy to use Python with Spark: https://databricks.com/blog/2018/06/05/introducing-mlflow-an...
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Even before the "dudebros", i'd argue most scientists and engineers didn't really care too much about the moral implications of their work. Guns, bombs etc... were all invented by brilliant minds, we'd like to think we as a society have collectively evolved cause we have small machines in our hands with all the world's knowledge but esp in the usa, looking outside you see that nothing has really changed that much in the way humans think.
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For anyone interested in this topic, I highly suggest the book Bullshit Jobs, which is basically a very in-depth (but entertaining!) ethnography of such over-specialized jobs.
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Just a fancier/exactier way of referring to MB (mega byte) as an Mo (mega octet), since on more exotic systems a byte can have a different number of bits that 8 (there are/were 7-bit-byte or 6-bit-byte systems...), while octet always means 8.

...if a programmer uses Mo, they are surely 100% French!

(All the other countries that have Mo on their language only have it used by non-IT people, programmers would always use MB. The word octet is in the English language too btw, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octet_(computing) , but obviously nobody uses it, it's just too French :P)
wasted opportunity to mention apple pie in the example function.
Lately I've been experiencing some depression (under treatment), so maybe this is just the state of my mind right now, but is anyone else growing more and more cynical about the potential for changing the world, and adjusting their moral philosophy to compensate?

I could barely impact how my former employer ran the company, and even though I had the company's best interests at heart the whole time, I faced resistance the entire way. Political change is even more out of reach. I grow tired of obviously bad policy ideas being promoted because of political party consensus (on "both" sides). I am exhausted of the generational warfare that is causing newer generations to face an uphill battle for the rest of their lives, with higher health care costs, higher housing costs, higher environmental costs, higher education costs, and lower wages. I'm sick of inaction on important issues, misguided action on petty issues, and the nonexistent potential for small unpolitical changes that could have big impacts but won't ever see the time of day because the need for political posturing doesn't allow for it (like for example, a change to the metric system).

I feel trapped and helpless to change anything. And sometimes my feeling of helplessness has made it so I can no longer muster the effort to care for things that are so far beyond my control. I'm at the point on Maslow's Hierarchy where taking care of my family's survival is the only important thing anymore. I sometimes ponder whether I should just go out and get some kind of unethical job that pays a ton of money (and there is no shortage of those kinds of jobs for people of my talents) merely because it accomplishes that goal more efficiently. But then I feel bad about entertaining that thought. I don't really know what to do about it.
Guessing they're mostly sales/service related employees. When you get on their enterprise plan the service is fairly personal.

Invision also has a wider breadth of tools than what Sketch does (though Sketch does what they do in a much deeper way).

Sketch doesn't do personalized enterprise-level service plans (or Basecamp, for a similar example)... so they can be a lot leaner.
The prior name of Fulcrum Microsystems was Asynchronous Digital Design, not Design Technology. They fairly quickly decided that ADD was an unfortunate acronym...
Nobody is begging any question. The answer is that it is for YOU to decide. I'm sorry if that's not a simple, yes/no answer for you, but the world isn't like that.
Function calls from WASM to JS don't seem to have improved so much.

I don't know what I want more, DOM calls from WASM, or C++ modules. A web without javascript would be welcome.
This isn't an all-in-one or all-out thing. Of course money was a consideration.

But, Google (and sv 2.0 generally) did both present and to an extent, live up to a certain ethic. Not perfectly, not without some hypocrisy but they did have an ethic. The sold it to their employees (and others).

Today, they have trouble living up to it. People got disillusioned or upset. That is what we're talking about it.

I agree that these people joined a company, not a monestary. But, 10 years ago working at Google was easier to be proud of, on an ethical/esthetic level.
A crazy naked person is definitely worth calling the cops over. I actually did this a couple years ago. I was in West Oakland and my next door neighbor was outside one morning, babbling (and occasionally yelling) about Jesus. I went out and asked him to go inside. He yelled, "Oh my God you're Jesus... ", continued babbling, jumped on top of a car, and started trying to rip the windshield wipers off. I asked him to go inside again and he pulled his pants down and started doing the helicopter. At that point, I called the cops. They showed up in about a minute and wrestled him to the ground. He fought back like crazy, trying to bite and spit. They got him cuffed after about 20 seconds. Then EMTs showed up, injected him with what I assume was haldol, and took him away. He was held for psych eval for three days. When he came back, he behaved totally fine.

The news doesn't report stories like that, where things go right. You'll only hear about the controversial cases where cops totally fuck up, either due to malice or incompetence. But almost every time, things go right.
> I just wanted to say that I walked away from Facebook about a year and a half ago now. I didn’t delete it, I just logged out and uninstalled the mobile app. It’s all been totally fine.

If you do this, change your profile pic/cover photo to a text-image saying something like "No longer using Facebook" in letters big enough to be read in the thumbnail views. It'll help build social momentum around disconnecting from Facebook, and it will let your Facebook connections know it's not a good medium to communicate with you.
Oh, to be sure, the technology will be there (and not unlikely make it into game console). I just struggle to see any other inlet for it.

Not to mention that that benchmark is very synthetic and doesn't really reflect the kinds of speedups that will generally be found.
Out of curiosity, what costs so much in terms of operations?
I don't see the connection between dudebros and working to get a salary and not much more.
Shouldn't be forced to do such job.

The computer systems caused secretaries to get fired while managers get to do secretarial tasks of feeding computer systems with data... There are probably much better uses of actual managers.

The thing is, managers employ person to person skills and unstructured data handling. Forcing the manager to structure their output so that the computer / bureaucracy can handle it is a waste of time. If you want this kind of accountability, hire an accountant or secretary.

Welcome lean processes and reporting based on word and thin paper trails only for very important or regulatory matters.

Or change the computer system to accept unstructured input.
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FB has become way more enjoyable for me after adopting a similar strategy. Now it's down to my close friends, family, and old HS friends who are up to cool things I'm interested in.

The hardest part for me was unfollowing close friends who post a lot of garbage and videos. Before I complained about FB being shit content, but it was really some friends posting shit content.

I think in combination unfriending and unfollowing lots of people, and facebook's algorithm updates, it has become more useful and fun to use again.
When I went to undergrad in the mid 90s there was a single, optional “social and ethical issues in computing” class which was a total joke. Hopefully today the situation is better, but I suspect not, given the truckloads of new grads year after year, all prepared to not worry so much about the ethics of how their products are being used.
How does this compare to http://jasonette.com (besides the obvious platform differences)?
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How do you deal with performance issues with this kind of abstraction?
You're quite right. It was GFS and MapReduce that was invented by Google, and Doug Cutting based it on those technologies.
There was no point to misinterpret, it was just an observation. You claimed that quality of life for a tech worker is relatively garbage. I was simply providing context as to why — tech workers make lots of money (comparatively) but it’s hard to spend that money to improve your quality of life.
Duly noted, I've opened an issue to track this:

https://github.com/jlaine/aiortc/issues/76

aiortc's RTCPeerConnection indeed uses RTCRtpSender.send to apply parameters. This is directly inspired by ORTC:

http://draft.ortc.org/#dom-rtcrtpsender-send
About 2.8K a month in PHP.
Certainly more than an entire country.

Yet, you can receive offers from the whole world.
Personally, I've done remote and decided after a while i didn't enjoy full time remote. The advantages? Getting to choose where i live, freedom in working my own schedule as long as deadlines are met, working in my boxers ?
How do you secure this data in Hasura? The article does not seem to mention security.
Upstate NY/Vermont/NH/Western MA. Taxes aren't low, but housing is cheap and people are relatively sophisticated.
You are making excuses for feral animals who used a cattle prod to torture a naked, unarmed man before proceeding to poison him. And your instructor is part of the problem and should be wearing orange, not a police uniform.
I can't say I'm too thrilled with the idea of having a Facebook-powered camera in my house.
IMHO, corruption in french police is not widespread. The situation of police in Marseille (your link) is very extreme and not really representative of the whole country. The optimistic view is that police is fighting very hard to stop corruption and even in terrible places like Marseille, they have succeded to stop a big case.
Latency is the first thing that comes to mind.

This can be dealt with in a few ways:

1. Co-lo at the same data centers as your broker. exchanges, etc

2. zero-copy, kernel bypass techniques.

3. machines are locked down, striped down of services, fast CPU, disk, lots of RAM.

But there are still lots of other issues like retrieving data, processing it, working with it, etc.

I'd be happy to elaborate on anything.
Wasn't Orkut massively popular in India and Brazil?
Admin or support staff in any job is just like those who work in logistics. They're the grease which makes the machine work. The underappreciated heroes of most orgs.
For a really revolutionary way of organizing a work place read

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maverick_(book)

See also: https://semcostyle.org/
> For English, aside from do/does useless distinguishment, the lack of a gender neutral noun for a person usually make people write in a way "he/she". You could say, "the person" but it's long.

You mean "they", used as far back as Shakespear?
In this case, "cheating" is defined as designing only to pass whatever the NHTSA happens to be testing now, and ignoring all other areas where things could go wrong.

edit: I'm not saying I agree with GP, just explaining what I think they meant by stating that they were "cheating."
Then they are too stupid to be in the business of helping people.
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Good ol' Google and blogs counting as respectable publications. Sounds like the steps can be applied to get the UK Exceptional Promise visa too.
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The university is a gamechanger. Osijek also doesn't feel provincial at all. Mind you, I'm a big city kid, still I love it here.

http://softwarecity.hr/clanovi/
> Also can't think of any portugese scientist, or portugese based lab renowned for anything in biology or computer science.

Fernando Pereira comes to mind: he made significant contributions to the early development of logic programming (e.g. C-Prolog) and natural language processing, as well as other AI research.
Yes, proportionally black males are more likely to be shot by police than white males. But pointing out that in GP's list of all the groups that need to be wary of police, the one most shot by police in absolute numbers is absent.
The fact that you're in Eastern Long Island along with talking about the $400 weekend makes me think you're near the Hamptons. What are you going to do once the summer crowd winds down and it's only the locals frequenting your restaurant?
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I mean opaque when it comes to 'this is a successful third-party product we sell, let's hijack the business' rather than the clarity of what a store brand is in general.

Stores do distance themselves a bit further though — Walmart has "Best Value" brand or whatever, which isn't as explicitly a Walmart brand.
I'm surprised at the hostile reception to this post, because I think it's making a very good point.

The trend in the new economy is for a large percentage of people to be discarded like rubbish, while increasingly insane workloads are placed on the remainder. Not only is this bad for all the individuals involved and for the health of society, but OP makes the point that it's actually bad for the bottom line too. Executives are rewarded for doing things this way because it superficially looks like they are saving money, but the resulting productivity cut ends up reducing profitability. A more sane and equitable distribution of workload, would be better by every metric including profit.
I think the marketing copy is superb and I'm impressed that you already have nineteen paying users.
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Our onboarding materials explicitly say, "NYC is not HQ". And it's not HQ. It is just an office we leased because we ended up with 10+ staff in NYC and they preferred an office to a co-working space, for security/privacy. (If you've ever lived in NYC, you know it can be challenging to have a home office at any reasonable cost, due to typical square footage of living spaces. That's part of the reason I left NYC.)

We are a Delaware C-Corp. Yes, we have our mail sent to NYC, but that's for the lawyers/accountants.

As for the NYC staff, they find that one "problem" with the office is that it has a "library atmosphere". I personally don't think that's problem, but I am the CTO and an engineer, so I prefer quiet & focus. Some people expect an office to have "energy" and ours is definitely lower on that scale. I try to remind people that "the web is our office and the front door to that office is your internet connection."

Are people happier in our NYC office than on our remote team? Hard to tell, but the NYC folks complain about commuting a whole lot, and often take the occasional work from home day to spare themselves of it. I never hear those complaints from the other staff. I guess one benefit of the NYC staff is that they can have happy hours and dinner/drink outings, which inspires some jealousy on the non-NYC team.

We make up for that by throwing annual and semi-annual team retreats. Our last two were in Upstate NY at a writer's retreat campsite (really fun getting to know everyone over campfires and s'mores) and the one before that was in Reykjavik, Iceland, where we rented out a whole hotel and got to know each other on city and countryside excursions during 23 hours of daylight!

Where on the startup journey does transition to distributed make sense? Well, for us, day one worked! We reversed the typical evolution. We were 100% office-free for a few years. Then, in 2012-2013 or so, we got an NYC office, after a frustrating experience with a sub-leased co-working space for the NY staff. But we refer to it as the NYC internet cafe, not HQ. I think that is healthy for teams like ours.

Are distributed teams more likely to outsource stuff? I dunno, probably. We outsource commodity accounting/legal/payroll/benefits services, but we have an in-house finance/collections team. We also outsource PR, cloud hosting (obviously), and we use a lot of SaaS services.
15k is not nearly all of 31k, sure you're saving 50% instead of 30% due to the cost of living but you're still only saving half as much in real dollars which is going to have a huge impact on retirement. I get where you're coming from as far as the differences in cost and commute, but the fact that you're committing tax fraud by not declaring all of your tips doesn't necessarily make it a good long-term financial decision.
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Yes, poverty is decreasing. That doesn't change the fact that people are starving, even right here in the United States, the richest nation on earth.
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Police in France is very very different of police in the different states of US.
Interesting question. Thinking very abstractly, I guess that on an async CPU, software could more easily avoid polling, and be totally event driven, so we could get rid of timers/preemptive multitasking/any notion of time, and having no notion of time would make it easy to be tickless.

Of course you probably still want load-balancing between long-lived tasks, not sure how you'd handle that with a fully async system.
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