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You're probably being downvoted because:

1) People don't see the connection that you do between your first sentence and your second sentence.
2) "I've never heard it" is what we call an anecdote with N=1. "I didn't hear it in 6 months" is what we call an anecdote with a very short window.

Your second comment is being downvoted for complaining about being downvoted, though I do appreciate your explanation of why you thought your sentences were related to each other.
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which ones would you suggest? pgmpy?
No. The alleged tax fraud occurred in 1990s and to quote the article, "these maneuvers met with little resistance from the Internal Revenue Service."

So they didn't find anything illegal neither at the time, nor at any time since then. I highly doubt this investigation will change anything.
> if I’m dead... you’re welcome to it all

You might have something on your device that incriminates another, living, person.
I work in support. Many of my colleagues work remote, and you are increasingly rewarded for deep technical knowledge.

It's not for everybody, but it's been great for me. Many of your 'wish list' items seem aligned.

Good luck.

(Edit: I am in my 50s. I feel it's possible to continue in a similar role 'till retirement age.)
Did you even read the parent comment I was replying to?
So what they write here [1] about the OSS version with stripped telemetry is not correct then?

[1]https://github.com/flathub/com.visualstudio.code.oss/issues/...
Because 150k spare a year is drastically higher than the savings of a typical software engineer? That implies like a 400k+ salary.
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When a parent donates 1 million dollars to a school with the expectation that their child will gain admission and that 1 million dollars allows the school enough resources to bring on 5 more students than they expected does it really matter?

We should be optimizing for maximum utility not dubious concepts such as fairness.
> This is part of the reason why Flash used to be popular with companies.

I would happily go back to flash. However bad flash was, it was at least external to the browser. I could turn it off globally and things would get much lighter and memory would be freed up. All we have done with html5 is integrate the shitty functionality into the core of our browser.

The one thing that Mozilla had to do was not normalize this crap, and they wouldn't do it because they weren't hip enough or something.

Publishers don't have as much control as you think. I've seen so many failed experiments in years past. This is our fault. We enabled them to abuse us.
Just like we have the authentic personal experience and testimony from hundreds of thousands of essential oil and homeopathy users?
Where are you located?

I might have a job that would interest you. You might be able to be remote part time , at least until we get to know you.

We hit all of your marks (devs have offices, laid back, we all WAH 3 days a week). We are near Indianapolis.
That sounds gross/like a health and safety violation, dweekly
Hello!

I am currently 36, working for pay as a software developer since 1999, father of three -- and I would like to reiterate oppositelock's comment: "you're being too picky"

I totally understand your frustration with all this "helping other people" buzz but... Ultimately this is the job to be done by you right now :)

About the entire open-office culture, since I am a manager I have been granted a private office - which I have immediately converted into a shared quiet space to work for whoever might need it. I actually prefer to be where things get done.

I really think the problem lies in the engineering culture and maturity of the teams you had the chance to work with. Keep on looking!

Best,
Leaving aside the desirability of software patents, the "real products" element is not a useful way to define who is a "troll." Economically, one of the functions of the patent system is that it allows specialization and division of labor. It allows you to take the results of R&D efforts and wrap it up into a property right that can be the subject of market transactions. ARM doesn't make CPUs; it sells IP that a wide variety of companies can incorporate into "real products." ARM's expertise is in CPU design. It's economically efficient to let it focus on that, instead of forcing it and every other R&D house to also master manufacturing, supply chain, etc.

(I'd also posit that this is a good thing for consumers because it is a force pushing back against vertical integration. In the long run, I think it'll turn out to be a bad thing for consumers that the market is moving from ARM supplying IP to dozens of manufacturers, to a handful of companies with like Apple and Samsung moving CPU design in-house within a vertically-integrated supply chain.)
The joke as shown in the movie Primer:

https://youtu.be/fN-VAdAnoZ4?t=25
Stock goes up because a company does better than the market currently thinks it will, not because it does well. RSU issuing unicorns tend to have an extreme level of hype priced in already. In the best of all possible worlds, the stock might stay flat.
> In other words, yes you have the caloric deficit with fasting, but without some of the downsides of the body going into starvation mode.

The "starvation mode" idea is thrown around a lot but is categorically not something that overweight people ever go into. The premise came from a study done on a tiny sample size in the 1950s of severely malnutritioned soldiers. It is an extreme, near death state.

> A caloric deficit eventually forces the metabolism to slow down, hence the yo-to effect afterwards, whereas fasting doesn’t, not when implemented correctly.

Citation needed, specifically on the second part. Isocaloric diets with different compositions have not been shown to have any difference in weight loss amounts.

> So by eating multiple meals per day, you’re stimulating your pancreas to trigger insulin in the bloodstream multiple times per day. Thus the body will not have access to its fat store while that happens. As long as your insulin is high, no matter how much fat you have, you’re starving without eating food.

No, this is a misunderstanding of the metabolic system. The body is very good at storing and using fat, and there is zero evidence that an isocaloric diet prevents your body from accessing fat stores. If you eat the same amount of calories, you will supplement (or not) the same amount of energy from your fat stores regardless of when or what those calories are made up of. There may be small statistically significant differences here, but there absolutely has not been a study showing clinically significant differences. Every study that has shown improvement in metabolic markers has not compared isocaloric diets, as I mentioned in the comment you are replying to. I'd be happy to look at any study you think does, but this would be a massive shift in the current understanding of metabolism and so it is unlikely such a study exists.

> When you’re doing keto or fasting, the insulin goes down. Again, this is a fact.

I'm not sure what you mean by "the insulin goes down" but basically this is not a fact because it has not been showing in isocaloric diets.

> This allows the body to consume energy from its own fat deposits. This means that the metabolism shouldn’t slow down, when implemented correctly.

Again, this is a misunderstanding of the metabolic system.

> And btw, the reason for why keto hasn’t taken off in the medical community is due to perverse incentives. Nobody wants to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in proving that a diet works, because a diet doesn’t generate profit. The cold, harsh truth is that it’s more profitable to sell statins and synthetic insulin.

The medical community is extremely messed up, but the part of it that focuses on treating obesity regards keto as a way to build compliance, but has largely read the studies and come to the same conclusions anyone else who understands the basic biology has: the premise that keto or IF produce metabolic changes outside of the ones that come from caloric deficits brought on by increased compliance is extraordinary and requires extraordinary evidence, which has not been produced.
> The goal of the Constitution..

Freedom of speech as a human val predates your constitution.
Not every app is an Electron app.
> It was "disproven" based upon a different philosophy.

It was disproven based on experimentation[0], no "philosophy" involved.

>The Einsteinian philosophy represents materialism and a world without meaning

There is no "Einsteinian philosophy," nor does anything in Einstein's theories relate to "meaning" or any lack thereof, in a philosophical sense. Whether you want to believe in aether, or God, or that the Machine Empire built the universe as a VR simulation, E=MC^2 remains true. It can be tested, has been tested has been proven true.

And its probably worth mentioning that the same is true for aether theory, because it also was not a philosophy, but a scientific theory (which was, as mentioned earlier, disproved by experimentation.) The universe is no more or less meaningful or materialistic either way.

>It was problematic right from the start when mental gymnastics was needed to explain how energy can move through nothing.

On the contrary, the mental gymnastics were needed to continue supporting aether theory after experiments and observations continually failed to produce any evidence of it, and the properties aether would need to have to conform to the current cutting edge of science started to become ludicrous.

[0]https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_e...
>If I had to pick between IQ and pre-existing wealth, I would choose wealth.

It depends how one defines wealth. If the choice is framed as choosing between $10 million lump sum with no taxes or any conditions vs. an IQ of 130, then maybe the $10 million and an IQ of 100 is the better bet. However, these studies define 'wealthy' (assuming they even quantify it at all) to be merely upper-middle class, which is much less, and this this wealth is further diluted by number of siblings and other factors.

>. Hard work is a necessary but not sufficient condition to make money -- same applies to IQ.

That's my point and I agree. But many of these articles downplay or ignore the role of IQ. IQ is still necessary but it may not be sufficient.
Yes, we use several Lambda for different kinds of backend and user-facing services. We pay $60 to process ~1M requests per month.

Consider the following:

1. It's pretty useful for fast prototyping (lots of demos, codes, etc. available).

2. Write clean code. Develop your logic totally separate from Lambda, you should be able to test it without it. Use Lambda + API gateway basically as an app/web server.

3. Don't deploy Lambdas manually. Use AWS SAM.
> If I had to guess

That's the thing though, we have to guess. We don't have the evidence and many of us might not be able to understand it if we did.

This wouldn't be such a problem, except these incidents tend to end up being used as justification for military actions to murder more people. And on that point, I sincerely hope to be proven completely and utterly wrong by future events.
He doesn't care. In his words she "betrayed" China although he is only using a coerced statement as proof. Basically, he's a fucking moron.
Wow, when did MDN start scrolljacking?

I use a browser extension [1] which provides vim-like bindings for Chrome, and sites that scrolljack severely mess up the scroll up/down functionality.

It's hard to tell there's scrolljacking just by using your mousewheel, but if you try running `window.scrollBy(0, 500);` in your developer console, you'll see the easing being applied. Try the same code on a site without scrolljacking (like the HN front page) and you'll see it jumps directly to the destination.

You'd think one of the largest advocates for web standards and accessibility would know better!

[1]: https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys
Seriously? Do I have to list countless individuals who fought multinational corps and won b/c they were being screwed? Telling your family to put the hamburgers down aint going to help this situation.
Mohandas aka Mahatma Gandhi (not "Ghandi", please) went to law school in England and had a successful law practice in Apartheid-era South Africa. He was considered a pillar of the Indian community in SA, one of its major civic leaders. It's hard to believe he would've attained such respectability and influence within the community without achieving "conventional" success first.

And his successes against the racist colonial government in SA were what built his reputation and gave him instant credibility when he returned to India.
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Ever been to Rome or Florence?
Lots of companies don't do puzzles, or you can bypass the puzzle, or you can sell your ability to work independently, etc.. See https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards and https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/07/29/getting-a-job-withou...
The phones wont unlock if your eyes are closed. So that's kinda already a feature. Of course a full "lock out because this is my distress signal" feature would be nifty, but imagine you blink in the middle of unlocking your phone on a regular day and find yourself very locked out. That'd be very annoying.
Which theory is not supported by experimental data? GR? There is hardly any theory with more experimental support.
That sounds incredible. Is it publicly available somewhere?
"Passion" tends to be a one-way street, and in many ways is the opposite of the more important attribute of professionalism. I am passionate about my work, my craft, etc. Companies tend to have exactly zero loyalty or "passion" towards/for people, by design and by necessity.

If you are led to believe it is different, you are most likely being misled, for example in order to pay you less (as you pointed out before).

I actually find this sort of "company culture" that demands your whole being to be creepy bordering on totalitarian.
Uh, no. Sorry. The IR cannot be transmitted with any fidelity through a thumb. The only way this would work is if you actually weren't covering the camera and IR emitters with your thumb (which is entirely possible because most people don't know where the IR emitters are in the notch)
I got to page 38 before I even thought to look at how long it was, it's kind of engrossing, and because it's mostly quotes and infographics, it doesn't take long to go through a page, it's not Mochizuki's proof of the abc conjecture or something.

It only took ~15 minutes to get that far? What's the difference between spending 15 minutes reading hn and 15 minutes reading a report? It's still 15 minutes.

Open it up, I bet you'll find it interesting and get further than you think in a short amount of time.
I like working in support, too.

I work for a company that helps developers working with our software frameworks-- we pay a decent wage.

Good luck, maybe you'll find an employer that properly values your skillset.
And you have people walk up to you and point their phone at a specific part of your body, stare at the screen and away from you while they wait for the info to load, and then say, “Hi Ted”?
As a largely security-conscious person, I'd love to, but there's a non-zero chance I'll lose all my data since my last backup by being triggered accidentally in my pants pocket.
I thought jetbrains telemetry is opt in and not opt out. Is that no longer the case?
You need an IQ of at least 140 probably even 150 to make $10 million (4+ stddev). You see people on the street every day with a 130 IQ, that's your average software engineer right there.
Are XAP2 used in application processors much? I thought it was mostly in specialized uses like radiochip controllers etc.
Yeah, gross. jk gg G all stopped working.

Checking archive.org, it looks like the scrolljacking was just added on October 12.
The question is what interest we have when designing our laws and culture in providing opportunities to people born with fewer of them. People who can provide tremendous value are being shut out because of inequality, and I want a talented person who could start a business and create tens of thousand of jobs to have that chance not just out of fairness (like you say) but because it's also good for all of us.

So yeah, people can inherit wealth but it seems obvious there is tons of opportunity to unlock a lot of potential that's being thrown away due to people being blind to the costs of income inequality.
"Smart enough to take over the world. Nice enough not to."

<rolls eyes>... So how smart?

"Weather, timer, take a photo, blackjack."

Ha, must be $5. Or $10, it's kinda cute.

"$249.99"

Piss off.

"Super smart AI, safely programmed one notch below too smart."

Yeah, if it could keep a calendar, man that'd be dangerous.
Just to cover the whole gamut of human lameness here, let's also mention the opportunists. Someone looking to meet somebody at a desirable company, to advance their own prospects, would, upon hearing you don't work at any such place, conclude you're of no use to them.

txcwpalpha, some portion of those who "treat you like a pariah" are probably these people. The good news is that such people are of no use to YOU, and you just dodged a bullet.

I don't want to necessarily promote a cynical view of the entire world, because these people are still thankfully a small portion of the total. My bigger point is that a surprising number of people whom I experienced as rude, standoffish, nasty, etc. turned out later to also have been dishonest, hiding something, and/or actively engaged in wrongdoing (be it right there, or in some other part of their lives). Not sure whether the stress of being deceptive leads them to be shitty toward others, or if a shitty worldview leads to both... probably the latter... but in short, shittiness is rarely confined to just the one area of a person's life that concerns social interactions. And rarely does it have anything whatsoever to do with you. It has to do with them - in fact I would say it's a marker, a fog beacon calling out "BEEEEP - this person is shitty in this observable way and probably other currently-unobservable ways - BEEEEP." Just think about it like this: if talking to someone feels like you're talking to a gangster, or like you just went to prison, that's probably because that person belongs there. I highly recommend spending time around some scumbags just to get the flavor.
Making profits unethically doesn't necessarily mean it's fraud. The two things are very different.

I can knowingly sell you a crappy car, and if you sign an agreement that you bought and accepted the good in its current state, that's that. Yes, I acted unethically, but I didn't defraud you.
I don't see why Firefox is relevant? It's still a shame that they are both like that though.
Maybe they were using some debug version and maybe bundled 32 and 64 bits in the same package(I think for OSX had multiarch packaging a few years back when I was making Qt packages)

I just checked VLC now and the Windows download has 38Mb, Qupzilla installer has 78Mb(this is a browser so it bundles webkit and probably some js enbine),
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Well said, that captures exactly the effect I was thinking about.
That is how our system of criminal law works, though. We would prefer 100 criminals go free to prevent 1 innocent person from being convicted.
Indeed. Patent lawyers use "troll" as a synonym for "NPE" -- Non-Practicing Entity:

https://patentlyo.com/patent/2013/03/guest-editorial-throwin...

An NPE by definition produces nothing but patent enforcement actions.
> Some science fiction (e.g. The Jetsons) is just a contemporary drama or comedy with fantastical sets and props.

Or even modeled after age old stories. Like most writing recycles and reinterprets old material. I started to wonder what historic metaphors the Expanse relies on, what with ship travel taking months, pirates, colonies, the plague - but the opposite of slavery, with unconditional basic income. The gang "the Golden Bough" is a hint at Virgil's Aeneid, I learned today by coincident. It's not hard sci-fi at all. The sci-fi is kept to a minimum as much as the fantasy. That is, the fantastic elements should be kept to a minimum. Now I wonder what that thing (not to spoiler) represents. Just a deus ex machina for sake of the story or a ring of ancient overlords?
> Apple makes it very easy to quickly disable Face ID [...] simply press and hold the side button and either power button for several seconds.

It would be nice if it were even easier. E.g a triple click of the power button — something that you could do with one hand in your pocket in less than a second.
Interviews & job applications are not a fair evaluation of your skills, they're a giant and terrible filter.

Don't let it stop you from continuing to apply for jobs. If you have written a Django/Angular site from scratch you are more than qualified for a junior position.
It quite possibly is related to different practices but good quality healthcare still has bad outcomes. Advice on treatment has a lot of variables and previous c-section is not going to be the only factor.
Depends if you're married to them.
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In larger companies, the employee engagement industry is something that management can feel good about. For the average employee it is a series of meeting or actions that they are forced to take while still being required to complete their regular work. All while being treated as an easily replaceable cog. If you want your employees to feel engaged and happy about their work pay them well, give them a workload they can complete in 40 hours, and take the money you spent on hiring a 3rd party employee engagement team and give it back to the employees.

Its similar to the concept of forcing them to take personality and aptitude tests. It serves no purpose, and takes time and money. I remember having to sit through a meeting after taking one of these where the presenter explained the best way to approach members of different personality styles. My takeaway was that this is the real world and I am not going to prep to understand someones personality profile before every meeting or human interaction. No one at the manager level or above in the company as far as I am aware ever utilized it again. Lower level people tried but it had no positive results or changes to their career so they eventually abandoned it and worked for their C.O.L. increase. This is a 5k+ employee company.

Just treat your employees like real people who have lives and value them, best way to get employee engagement.
Embedded is definitely a place where this sort of Goldilocks environment can be found. I suspect it's because embedded -- and I mean really low-level stuff, not "We run embedded Linux!" level -- requires a lot of EE knowledge in addition to software engineering skill to do it well. That, in turn, requires test instruments and such, which lends itself to an office or at least a dedicated section of lab bench rather than an open office. In addition, embedded often seems to be sort of voodoo for managers, so I've found they tend to keep their hands off more than on, say, front-end web dev projects. Lots of guys doing it remotely, too. There are guys (and gals) in their mid 20s who are doing it and good at it, but I'd say overall it skews towards late 30s or older.

Or maybe I've just been lucky.
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Oh yeah because the concept of abstraction breaks down where this specific feature begins…
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