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Why is everybody so hung up on how it'll affect your career? As if everything in life must be rationalized by its impact on your career.

Maybe he creates a successful business and never has to work for anyone else again, maybe not. Either way the author will have had the valuable experience of not only trying to build a business, but also living life on his own terms - something that we give up (often without realizing it) when we sell ourselves to the corporate world.

I'm 10 months into my sabbatical and have spent the last 8 months living in countries/continents I'd never been to, learned about different cultures, improved my Spanish (now trying to learn Russian), met a ton of people, and grown enormously as a person.

Career-wise and financially was this a good decision? Probably not (at this point at least). But I wouldn't trade any of this for the world. Had I spent another year living in the same damn city doing the same work that I was bored to death of, I might've jumped off a bridge or something (not really, but in hindsight I was depressed without really realizing it).

I will now shift gears towards working on my own project(s). If it works out - great, I will be living my dream. If it doesn't work out - no problem, I'll figure it out - even if I have to return to the U.S. and find a job again. On my deathbed I'm not going to regret taking a year off to travel the world when I could've spent that year continuing to work a job I was no longer passionate about.

One of the things I've completely internalized from my travels is that I have no interest in the corporate rat race. I don't care about "career ramifications" because that's not a ladder I want to devote my life to climbing. Last night I hung out with a 21 year old from the hostel who's making $6k/month from online businesses working 1 hour/day, and has spent the last 1.5 years living abroad (I never met these kind of people when I was working my 9-5). That is my dream - not being a tech lead at Google (I don't need $6k/month either, $1.5k/month and I'm good).

In essence, the sabbatical drove home the point that I had been climbing the wrong ladder. So even if I have to eventually go back to the job market, I will be targeting totally different jobs, and my mindset towards work, money, and life in general is totally different. Before I was living in a permanent state of delayed gratification, saving money with no clear vision for what I was saving it for. Now I have a better idea of what I want out of life. Or maybe I just have more confidence to go out and chase what I want when in the past I would've simply fantasized about it.

At the end of the day I'd rather try and fail then have lived a safe boring life slaving away in some job I don't care about being depressed and wishing I had the balls to live life on my own terms and go after the life I want.
If you describe results of an experiment, you need to provide the detail or pointer to how to reproduce it.

Benchmarking on enterprise hardware is completely relevant because that is the technology that is going to become dominant over the next few years so if performance gains do not show up on that type of technology they may not significant.

In some cases enterprise hardware is much different from what would be used in other scenarios, or on a massive scale, similar to how Facebook doesn’t go down and buy enterprise servers to run their data center. However in this case, the new generation of memory/storage hybrid will not be that different whether it’s in your laptop or in a server, Size features and scalability withstanding of course.

If I read an FAQ question that doesn’t have an asterisk or a pointer to the full information, it’s not my responsibility as the reader to go hunting around for details. This is the job of the author of the paper or website. You don’t get to brag without putting a
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> You can snort caffeine to the point of effect and healthy individuals will be fine.

How can you possibly know that? Do you have scientific research to cite?

I would assume that someone that ingests enough caffeine (by any means) to "the point of effect" (whatever that means) is going to have some serious risk of heart attack. I know several people who have wound up in the hospital for monitoring after drinking, oh, about 8 cups of coffee within several hours. They didn't realize it was the coffee, they were just like, uh oh, something is not right with my heart beat. The doctors say "how much coffee have you had today? Yeah, you'll probably be okay, but don't do that again."
I like NYT’s articles, but have been hesitant to actually subscribe due to issues like this, and other stories where they make it hard to unsubscribe, require you call them etc.
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It means that he probably is not stable. There are things you do not write in public. I don't need to have a MD to notice that.

Writing in public that you wanted to assualt a coworker becouse he didn't like your design and cancelled a meeting for being "sick"/hangover is a flashing red warning light with sugar on top.

It's one thing to rant that to some freinds at a bar if you have no history of assaults. Another thing to publicly state it.

Do you want to work with him? I do not.
I don't think it's controversial, post was unprofessional and came across very entitled and immature. It's bad for his career imho.
Surfing the internet without an adblocker is like having one-night stands without condoms. You never know what you might get infected with, and it's a stupid risk.
It's better than good now. It's incredible now.
3)I doubt China would hack its hardware for intel purpose in the way bloomberg described, not because it doesn’t want to, but because it’s very cost inefficient. China needs to perform the hack on a massive scale to hack a target because it cannot reliably know which server is going to which company down the supply chain. Such a massive hack will almost certainly be caught and the economic consequece is huge. In addition, unlike software hack, its easy to trace the origin of a hardware attack back to china.
Companies find RCE and SQLI, fix them, don't conduct gigantic forensics investigations to determine if they'd ever been exploited, and get on with their lives. It happens routinely. What's so interesting about this bug? Did you read the details about it? I wasn't kidding when I called it a sev:low.
No question (assuming the author represented the conversation accurately).

But you need to deal with jerks. There's lots of them out there, often in management positions.

He says this made him "very depressed" and working there was "completely and utterly ruined" -- an on over-reaction. Toxic leadership is bad but you shouldn't let it control you to this extent.
Here are my screen shots:

1. Lock screen in locked state

2. Siri request

3. FaceID settings

4. iOS version/model

I'm not trying to prove you wrong, I really want to see this work and I am trying to figure out what might be different on our phones.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/uil5O7e
Oops, wrong wording. You are correct, you are only taxed on any money passed down after the first 11.18 million.
Why not make a playlist? Seems more durable
What are they? Because making a forced bugfix reporting system seems like pointless busywork if the public can't have access to it (and to be honest, it sounds pointless even if they do).
You should be able to work as a freelancer until you've saved enough to go abroad. Or maybe go abroad to a low cost location (Chang Mai, ...) and freelance from there.
There are a few websites that would help you find freelance (gig economy) work (15 freelance sites listed here https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/245953).

If you're really, really smart you might be able to get a full college scholarship somewhere.

There's Ecole 42 in Paris (also Silicon Valley) that's tuition free. "No degrees or special skills are required to apply, and those who are accepted attend for free for three to five years. Around 80% of students get jobs before they finish the course; 100% are employed by the end." https://qz.com/1054412/a-french-billionaires-free-teacher-le.... But Ecole 42 is hard to get into. And Ecole 42 might only accept French students. (The answer is an email away.)
>>Nos 2-5: these happen at almost every medium-large sized company I've ever worked at. If you know a place that isn't political, bureaucratic, siloed and filled with rivals and petty managers, let me know so I can give you my resume.

This is one of the problems with the way their hiring is marketed. They are depicted to be asking hard CS and algorithm based questions, and a culture of a workplace is being sold which is based on a merit process along the lines of 'programming abilities'.

The reality in every people structure one will every work at, politics is how the world works. People optimize what's best for themselves. The bosses are often stupid, because bosses that exist never want smart people to grow up and become a competition to them. Money is always attached to hot projects, so bulk of the career growth, bonuses and other juice comes when you work there. Regardless of whatever the merits of that project are.

The same applies to projects too. Once a company has 2 - 3 cash cow projects, the executives won't let new set of rivaling products emerge and become a competition to their fiefdom. Most of the times the competition is killed in plain sight, but other times its back room political sabotage. Only a few days back some one mentioned how Google is a place where $100M revenue opportunities pop up and die all the time.

The same case with that 20% extra time projects. Who is going to let this happen? I'm pretty sure anybody who dares to do these projects will be marked to be a trouble maker by the very managers they report too.

In short once you have more than 2 layers of management at your company, politics is how thing will work. And its perfectly, OK. Because that's how world is.

What is problematic is if the people at the top, Larry Page and Sergey Brin don't know are too naive to understand that its happening in their company since years. Inability to deal with everyday politics can kill companies.
Is this your definition of "walking all over you"?
How much of a bubble is silicon valley?

I have worked in the biggest bank in Australia where subcontractors were siphoning away the source codes and customer data via mobile hotspots. I blew the whistle to data security and got fired in return. Company later paid me huge chunk of money in return for silence.

Sometimes you just gotta walk away to better deals. Life is unfair more so if you have a big ego.
Right, and if it turns up nothing, what does it invalidate?

...well, nothing.

The negative conclusion of this experiment doesn't achieve anything, and the aspirational conclusion is a colossal longshot. So more likely than not, time is wasted here (though it'd be cool if there were a Discovery, or even just a 3σ observation).
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Hay Chris,

Looking like a great project, simple and fun.

Keep in mind that other similar projects tried the same approach before, namely firebase and parse.com. both for only so much traction because at the end, real world applications need more features - business logic, backend that uses other APIs, etc.

Still, looks like a fun project
> What are they going to do

If it comes to the point where they're wanting to look at your devices, their response to stock devices with no data will be to confiscate your device, detain you, and/or turn you away from crossing the border.
I hate this too! For me, tho, the worst part is that they're not even consistent. I never know if the computer will pick up whatever I'm playing in the phone: sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. I don't want to check if my phone is connected to the same wifi for it to work.

Back when I used Rdio, the behavior was to keep all devices/tabs synced. It was consistent. It worked. When I wanted to keep diferent sessions I used playlists. I could work around it.

But with Spotify it's a mess. It doesn't sync correctly when I want, but only when I don't want.
It’s just a side note, but this mention of his brief tenure at a “failing startup” rubs me the wrong way:

”In a couple of months I knocked out more work than they could have built in a year with their eng team.”

No startup deserves a designer with this kind of attitude. Your job isn’t to produce pie-in-the-sky concepts for your portfolio but to work on the product together with the engineers.
The majority of ITAR restrictions (and other similar export laws, in my experience) are for technologies that help with navigation and targetting, not propulsion. The technology to build an amateur rocket is a lot more widespread and easier to build locally or import.

Besides, export restrictions are rarely absolute - they mostly just add paperwork to legally certify that neither you nor your clients are sending the technology in question to Iran or NK.
Server logs are more or less equivalent the video recordings of the front door in this analogy. So the answer is you can know that nobody broke in by looking at the logs/recordings.
Considering how little the EU spends on the military compared to the US, it shouldn’t be surprising at all.
Do you support exporting the chart as png, pdf, etc.?
The age does give an advantage, but lack of savings is a universally problematic thing for all ages. You do need a safety net if you want to switch to entrepreneurship, or otherwise you have to be exceptionally lucky to get the salary you need and the equity you think you deserve.
The difference between a breach and a independent discovery is utilization by third parties. Through logging and other measures one can often determine whether exploits have been utilized to engage unauthorized access. Google's defense in this case is not good. They are simply claiming ignorance. 'We don't have any idea if this exploit was utilized, as we were not logging access to the privileged information.' It really defies belief that Google, who's entire business is based on data, would not be logging access to confidential user information (even by the users' themselves). But it's an issue whether true or false. If true it means Google was and/or is likely engaging in poor security practice. If false, it's far worse as it means not only was user information likely accessed by parties that should not have had access to it, but it would also mean that Google then lied about this. An investigation is wholly justified here.
you probably have tracking protection enabled
What authority should I contact in case of GDPR breach?
After the GDPR came in force, out of curiosity, I thought of mapping the data stored about me. I wanted to create a graph where the nodes would have been the different entities storing data about me; any two nodes would have been linked with an edge if there was a data sharing between them.

I started with one low-profile Eastern European webshop I'd previously used.

I emailed them, and asked for all the data they had about me, plus a list of the third parties with whom my data had been shared; I also asked for the contact details of those third parties.

Apart from a polite and generic reply I got nothing. So long about going down the rabbit hole.

My question is this: what low-budget tools do I have to force a given company to hand over all the data they have about me? Are there national / EU wide authorities to whom I can write to complain? (I have no money for legal support).
Yes, very odd. I suppose it’s an attempt to suggest the employer made a mistake passing on them, but the act of calling out itself demonstrates they might have made a good call.
> Do I also need to publish if I left my keys in the door for two hours, but nobody broke in?

You are not a giant company that stores the personal data of hundreds of millions of people. So, presumably, no.
That's a strawman to the point...
We need to stop using analogies with hardware. Software is fundamentally different and they don't apply in a lot of cases. And in my opinion this is one of them.

While I agree that not all bugs are the same level of severity, if there is no evidence of abuse of a bug, and it has been fixed, I see no reason to have them disclose it in any way. It would be akin to forcing companies to disclose when they repremand an employee, or when they change an internal HR process to avoid interpersonal problems.
NYC is by all accounts ahead technologically of PR. PR has had this technology for awhile. Its been a long time since I've been anywhere in the US that didn't accept chip.
Huawei has their own baseband silicon. Other Chinese-made phones (Nokia, Blackberry, Xiaomi) use Qualcomm silicon.
I wondered about it too! From what I read, the term seems to be controversial in the webdev community:

> "From the beginning there were people opposing the term, suggesting alternatives such as monomorphic or polymorphic"
[1]

As I understand it, when an SPA is "isomorphic", it means it can be statically pre-rendered to some degree. This property is then used as follows:

- you pre-render some html of your app server-side

- when a client requests a page, send the pre-rendered html first

- then, send over all your JS (React or whatever), which will take over the rendering when it's ready.

[2]

So "isomorphic" refers to some sort of behavioral equivalence, i.e. "you can run it server-side and you'll get the same output".

Painting with broad strokes, I guess you could interpret "this app is isomorphic" as shorthand for "this app can be pre-rendered into a static form that's isomorphic to its usual dynamic form" (in roughly the same way a pure function is isomorphic to a lookup table). In reality that property would probably be too strong for most cases, but I guess it's "morally correct".

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[1] https://medium.com/@ghengeveld/isomorphism-vs-universal-java...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomorphic_JavaScript#Mechan...
Company cultures don't feel bureaucratic or political if one benefits from it.

Say one was promoted twice in an year- it's always easy to believe that it happened because you deserved it, than to believe it happened to you because the managers like you.
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I don't think people at Google would agree with that characterization, given that they decided to couple it's disclosure with shutting down the whole product.

How would you characterize this versus the data leak used by Cambridge Analytica, if you remove the difference in the scale of product users and developers building on the API? Being able to scrape a lot of API data that users explicitly defined as private is a pretty big deal, especially when you consider that Google pretty much forced G+ integration on everyone in the first place, causing them to have accounts they might not even want.
So this article criticizes a lack of data then only uses a single data source (on complaints) that loops in all housing and employment data into one without separation of type (say, by sexual harassment). That doesn't really show anything beyond the bias of the author. Not to mention the inherent problem with formal complaints vs actual number of incidents that is not discussed at all. As mentioned by others, no accounting for income or any other factors was done either. I wouldn't say any information of value lies in the "analysis" here. Not to say the book is validated, simply that this is clearly hit piece that's trying to disguise itself as a review from any point of neutrality.
Ask HN: Found a way to teach Web Development to dummies. Should I write a book?
So my friend, who is the opposite of "techie" asked me to teach him Web Programming and so I did. He's able to code a decent static website by himself (didn't teach him Javascript or any other server side language) after about 2 weeks of daily lessons. When I was thinking of ways to teach him I thought of spaced repetition, which I recall is used for behaviors and language learning as well.

He and other friends told me to write a book using the same method, but I'm skeptical that people would be interested. So, before hiring an editor and trying to write it down, do you think it's worth to write a book with "my method" or if there are already books like these on the market?
You can still tinker away like the 90's on Arduino, ESP* like boards.

The problem is the effort to actually build something half as usable as an existing free OS, so most just give up.
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Yes, it's bizarre how the media has siezed on the passive mention of a bug patched in a blog post about Google+ that revealed basically no information of value and turned it into a story. I suppose it's just a reminder how little the media, public and of course the gov't understand this industry. Google certainly thought of it as a non issue or they wouldn't have made it an anecdote...
Face id and finger print id, unless used in addition to, not instead of, a passcode, are convenience features, not security features. Removing the "something you know" part of digital security makes anything else just shy of useless. Apple should remove the options or start using honest terminology in the configuration steps if they actually care about security.
And here I was wondering what Belgium needs an AirForce for, leave alone an F-16. Whoever attacks they are going to surrender in 3 weeks anyway and act as battlefield rental space as they always have throughout history. Pointless waste of resources. Just a testament to top quality American marketing.
> Is that why they got rid of it?

Yes.

"Plus" is a dumb and lame product name.

When Jean-Marie Messier was trying to make Vivendi an important Internet company, he decided he wanted to make some kind of portal (copying Yahoo) that would be named "Vivendi Plus". He announced it at a press conference before having even secured the vivendiplus.com domain. That was in Sept. '99. It failed miserably (didn't even launch).

Ten years later when Google wanted to copy Facebook they came up with the exact same name. It failed.

I think just naming a product myBigCompany--Plus is a symptom you don't know what you're doing or where you're going. It's bad form and then it's bad luck.
Not JavaScript, but there was actually a 4kb version of Minecraft for a contest: https://archive.org/details/Minecraft4K
The thing that makes this unique is that Google is claiming that they have no idea whether the bug was used by third parties. In my opinion this already seems questionable. And it's a big deal whether true or false. If true it means that Google is likely engaging in questionable security practice by not even logging remote access to privileged information, if false it's far worse for them as it almost certainly means that they believe the information was accessed by unauthorized parties, and they then chose to lie about it.
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This is word salad. In fact, Google is engaging in excellent security practice. They re-audited an application, found a minor vulnerability, and fixed it. Most tech companies don't do any of this.
That's how they do it on the west coast of Norway plus not having any overhangs, no or very small eaves.
There are an awful lot of Harvard educated journalists complaining about male privileged nowadays. Chang probably makes more money than most of the techies she attacks in her book. She has her own national television show and now book that's being promoted in the mainstream media. Business Insider called her one of the top 100 influential people in tech. Pretty good for someone who can't code! It doesn't look like this so called discrimination has had any impact on her career.