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a status field, does not a person or a persons work effort make ;)

...and if my workers were under the gun, they understood I was there strictly to offer assistance. shit sometimes I pull up a chair and code right next to them (now fangled as "pair programming"). sometimes people need a little help.

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true story, I had a dick client-side manager, whose project was about 2 years overdue, getting raked by the consulting company I worked for (body shop). they put me on the project, I tuned that shit up. johnny on the spot, and six steps ahead of the project/clientside managers.

... about two months in, I'm 20 minutes from closing out the entire project (I took some dev shortcuts to speed shit up - I was always a "high velocity" developer), I'm undoing the hacks (finalizing) to turn in the project, when the clientside manager decides he's going to come in to "motivate" me. if you are a developer, whose ever worked with a cunt of a manager who doesn't know tech/their ass from their elbow.... you know what that means.

... literally minutes away from closing out his entire project, and I quit the project (then got fired from the company).

took'em a month to close it out after I left. if the work had been less quality, it would have taken them six months. ;)

Now if he'ld shut the fuck up and let me handle my business, would have taken exactly 10 more minutes. and this was after I saved his ass on the project, and saved both of their asses with a direct product demo (pieced one together in under 4 minutes with 10 minutes notice) with the client-side ceo.

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I know who can get shit done, and who is having problems. because I know, whats going on in the projects/devs. and that comes from talking to people. not looking at status fields.

if you learn nothing else, go and see. codebase ain't always the codebase/trouble-ticket. its the people writing it.
You can still negotiate a final amount to be paid via non-cash payment though. Sometimes the rounding off of numbers might even make paying by cash more expensive. Don't think that's a particularly strong point.
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There is also a paid service that does similar to this, except the assistance is provided by trained agents. I have the service and have found it to be invaluable in the few times I've actually needed to use it. I still have some vision, so it actually makes it harder to decide to use the service.

The paid service is http://aira.io. I'm glad BME exists too though, as there are a lot of blind people that currently can't afford Aira. The unemployment rate for blind people is something like a staggering 70%.
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I suspected as much. So the names are out there. Pretty sloppy.
And neither of them are likely to look at long term consequences. Well, one side is, but they often don't factor the other group into their long term consequence outlook, whereas I'm convinced the one side doesn't think of anything long-term. I'm a solidly progressive person teaching in solidly Trump country (like, my state was basically called before the election was even over), and that's just been my experience. But, I went to school in a very progressive school, and it was the same -- they never considered rural or Blue Collar America in their long-term consequence planning, apart from "oh, we can give them this to support them, etc." Wasn't much discussion on how it would affect them individually and, even if they were able to live comfortably, how it would affect them culturally (having a job and providing for your family is what makes you a man, etc)
Part of it is just coverage. Coverage on the news appears to be a prerequisite for large scale outrage, although it also doesn't appear to be sufficient. The very nature of who was murdered, a journalist, has made it much easier for other journalists to talk about this a lot. That some of them knew the victim certainly reinforces this. Hence the coverage and hence the outrage.

The other thing that's fascinated me for a while is the breaking point for certain regimes or systems. Regimes can survive decades of abuse, but when the breaking point arrives it's never what you think it would be. The large scale Arab Spring revolt was triggered, as best we can tell, by the public suicide of a harassed street vendor (Mohamed Bouazizi). A tragic story for certain, but a surprisingly small trigger when compared to the decades of abuse and conflict in the region.

With that framework in place, it would not surprise me one bit if something like a murdered journalist is the straw that breaks the camel's back in the relations between Saudi and the west. Set against the backdrop of 9/11, persistent human rights abuses, and staggering civilian deaths in Yemen, one journalist is a very small drop of blood in a large ocean. But that's how these things go sometimes.
The concept of basic income seems kind of absurd to me, honestly. Infrastructure is crumbling, the educational system is slowly falling apart, urban areas in certain cities are becoming less and less maintained, etc. I see no reason why basic income would be preferable to a Public Works Administration-style program that pays people to do these tasks.
We love Apple because of their Objective-C and Swift stacks and related OS APIs.

Having a POSIX layer is a minor detail.

Anyone that buys Apple, but actually wants a GNU/Linux laptop should do so.
Maybe you need the GDPR.

When governments in the EU started digitizing their data like 20 years ago, it used to be that lots of personal data would end up published on official websites, either in the form of scanned PDFs that Google would gladly OCR and index, or in directly readable formats. Since then, the EU has cracked down on all of that, and you can no longer search for someone's phone number in order to get their full name, address, date of birth and ID. Even data that used to be available just 10 years ago, now has been removed.
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Almost every big software company in Seattle has a largish office in Vancouver because of the challenge of getting visas to the us.
It’s also good for setting location-based reminders (remind me when I leave here bring UPS package). And it used to be the case that some types of repeating calendar entries could only be inputted via Siri (make an appointment for every Thursday at noon called lunch with Steve).
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But if they're buying houses and paying property taxes but not using any of the services their taxes pay for, aren't they doing us a service?

It sounds like property taxes are unsustainably low the more I hear arguments against the Chinese money.

Disclaimer: I'm not of Chinese descent and I'm definitely poor so none of this benefits me. I'm just trying to understand what people are saying because it all sounds like a bunch of dog whistling where people say something but mean something else. I just want us to be open and honest with our bigotry if it is bigotry or greed if it is greed.
I’m specifically interested in Republican politicians. It looks like he was banned from Twitter due to posting a racist meme (which wasn’t related to Politics or conservative thinking). It looks like he was also banned from Gab for doxxing someone.

Can you give an instance where someone was banned for simply having Republican views, rather than someone violating the TOS who merely happens to be Republican?
But Seattle cannot summarily reject the request -- they have to follow the law, and the law does not require FOI requesters to get an explicit court order, e.g. a subpoena, for this information or for any other valid request. I mean, yes, the city of Seattle could try to reject the request, and the requester could sue and win in court after the judge finds that the city acted illegally. But that's like saying Seattle police "can" just arbitrarily arrest and imprison people, and fight the subsequent lawsuits.

Because the FOI law exists, the city does not open itself to liability in releasing records, except when it accidentally releases records that are mandated to be private, which I'm not even sure is the situation here.

Increased transparency is almost always a tradeoff with privacy. I don't disagree with you that the law may be abused for commercial or malicious intent, but it is up to the legislature to propose a bill that curbs FOI. Until then, the government cannot just deny valid requests because they don't approve of the requester or the requester's purported motives.
Anirudh Koul, the Seeing AI founder, also recently left Microsoft to go work at Aira.io: https://aira.io/anirudh-koul-joins-aira-as-head-of-artificia...

Aira is trying to integrate this kind of technology into smart glasses for the blind.
That's a moot point for as long as we still have 3.5 billion people engaged in subsistence level farming. All of them need to be brought into the modern economy, and taught a specialty. In other words, if 50% of the human race is still wasting its time with farming practices that have barely changed since the Neolithic, then there are still a lot of ways to grow the economy, even if the population is falling.
I see. So then this Repair Cafe is basically a branding/marketing tool, so that you can some traffic via people who see their website.
Yep. It's actually one of the main reasons I haven't applied to the Foreign Service. I think working as an FSO would be super neat and interesting, despite what all it entails, but I couldn't sign up to do it knowing what would likely be coming.
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I don't know, their latest smartwatch is so different than the first one that they might not care.
> power and money are the only things that work in global relations

Power is the only thing that works anywhere (money being a source of power) at a certain level, but that's kind of like saying all science is physics - it'd doesn't really have explanatory use. The question is how and why it's exercised. Domestically in advanced countries, it's controlled to a significant extent by government, which is controlled by citizens and people with power, who all can be manipulated by mass media, who are subject to Facebook and Twitter's power, which is influenced by public opinion and stockholders and the news the CEO reads, etc. etc. etc. It's a complicated web.

> Countries are forced to develop nuclear weapons because treaties are not honored owing to special interests

But even nuclear weapons treaties are influenced by public opinion. After (and before) the treaty with Iran was signed, there was a intense campaign on the U.S. right to discredit it, along with their attempts to discredit everything Obama did, giving Trump sufficient political support to break the treaty. If the public has been strongly in favor of it, it would have been a different story. So what power led the U.S. to break the treaty? Public opinion? Whoever was trying to influence public opinion in that direction? Large donors to the Trump or the GOP? There is a web of influence.

But I will say this for the the theory of "power and money" - the best way IMHO to find the power behind something is to follow the money: Who benefits? Who is benefited from the murder of Khashoggi? Who benefited from the portrayal of the Saudi dictator as a good person? Who benefits from the response?
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> Outside some hill-climb racing it seems most innovation is explicitly forbidden...

Don't forget about land speed racing, which is quickly gaining popularity on repurposed air strips. About the only rules are related to safety, though there are various classes with regards to engine size, fuels, induction type (supercharging, etc), body style and such.

Here are a dozen examples of innovation: https://www.hotrod.com/articles/12-ways-to-go-fast-in-the-st...
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Smalltalk, like Lisp, allows for image customization.
> presumably you're going to provide us a list with human rights activists who have been killed in the same way

You are doubting that human rights activists are killed by governments?
> "It out performs Microsoft’s generic SortedDictionary<TKey, TValue> (which is actually a red-black tree) by a factor of 2 for inserts and a factor of 4 for searches."

I may have missed it, but I'd love to know the versions of .net framework this was performed against. I saw a really interesting post in MSDN about how they've been working on performance improvements for underlying data structures. I would love to see this up against dotnet core 2.1 or >. For reference, this was the post:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/04/18/performan...
>So what triggered the recent reaction?

>Surely he has powerful family members who are outraged and connected.

>The only problem with this theory is that the same might have been said of Bin Talal and nobody blinked at his arrest.

The clear answer to me is that the Washington Post has more influence & power to stoke public outrage than a Saudi billionaire does. Which... really isn't very surprising.
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The German movie "Good Bye, Lenin!"

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Bye,_Lenin!

made Sigmund Jähn pretty well-known in West Germany, too. In the story of the movie, the protagonist convinces a taxi driver (who is or resembles the cosmonaut Sigmund Jähn, the first German in space and Alex's childhood hero) to act in a false news report as the new leader of East Germany and to give a speech about opening the borders to the West.

If you can read German, read the following article at Heise about the 40 year celebration of Sigmund Jähn's space flight:

> https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Ich-hatte-einfach-Gl...

On 1999, the German band "Die Prinzen" (which was quite popular in the 90s and 00s) created a song "Wer ist Sigmund Jähn?" to celebrate this "unknown cosmonaut":

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY6uRERGWBw
Bots in this context are programs masquerading as people who do not exist.

"Do this on my behalf" automation is different than "behave with these parameters" autonomy.

There is a grey area, but the differences are who is making decisions, who is being represented, and what is the motivation.
I'm sorry, but what on earth does this have to do with the linked article?
Thanks to you and the grand parent comment. This shows the power of defaults, right? It makes sense in this light that Google is willing to pay a billion plus dollars to Apple every year to be the default search.

I'm still amazed by these big numbers though because I just can't wrap my head around them.
People have been bootstrapping for thousands of years. Most business don't get VC money. I would say it is main stream. However in SV startup business its either go big or go home so it is hard to make it big without capital.

Beyond money YC is a brand. Its like harvard or stanford or google or facebook. Its good to have on your resume.
So they do send data out.
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Does anyone have a non-PDF version of this available?

PDFs are terrible on mobile.
The expense of housing comes from the people outside buying up all the open supply at high prices, so it's hard to afford a house. Also the supply of houses is lower, making apartments even more dear. Next many of the houses aren't lived in, so local area businesses don't have enough customers and close (grocery, clothing, restaurants).
In case Matt Chapman is reading this -- the contact email at the bottom of the page (matt@mchap.com) is probably not correct, given that the domain mchap.com redirects to an australian photographer.

The alternative is that the email address is correct and Matt is redirecting his domain to another Matt Chapman, which would be totally hilarious.
I think the appeal is also based on the name. Dart sounds like a new language aka go/rust/etc. Typescript sounds like Javascript with types. Typescript invites you to try it just based on the name.

Disclaimer: have never used Typescript.
there is a basis to at least some of these claims.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_Khashoggi
It's because he was, effectively if not literally, an American journalist. It's well known among journalists, and there's even a sort of exponent-based 'law' that's sarcastically cited - I can't remember it, but it's something like: 1 person killed on your block is equivalent to 10 people killed 100 miles away, etc.

An American killed means much more to Americans than 100 people from Saudi Arabia killed, and vice versa.
If you have a contact card for yourself and have set it as ‘me’ than Apple of course knows everything on that contact card.
Once the data is outside of my device I have no control over it and I suspect that it is somehow stored on some server, yes.
Emphasis mine:

> presumably you're going to provide us a list with human rights activists who have been killed in the same way

The root-level comment [0] is speculating that there's "something different about this", because Khashoggi's death what seems like an inordinate amount of attention. I'm arguing that his alleged assassination is getting so much attention because of the egregious circumstances and coverup surrounding it. If it were the case that many, or even just a few other people have died under similar circumstances, only to be quickly forgotten, then it would strengthen the implication that the controversy around Khashoggi is partly concocted by some greater conspiracy.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18267858
Consider if lectins were not a risk when heating food, then castor beans would be completely safe to eat after cooking: the toxic component of castor is ricin, a lectin.

The most cooking can do is reduce or mitigate the harmful effects to some extent. Fermentation is another technique but neither reduces the risk to zero.

"(as any other protein)" is not true either, consider for example peanut allergies, and related allergies such as tree nuts and soy. Cupins, prolamins, profilins are known protein families which can cause allergic reactions. Hence the warning you may see on food labels:

Allergy information: This product was processed in a facility that processes peanuts, tree nuts, soy, wheat, and dairy products.

even if they are cooked.
Why are they calling them "bots"? Is it because they themselves censored the usage of the term "shill", when they were themselves the ones shilling?
This explains why none of the big wigs in the Industry like Marc Andreesen, Reed Hastings, Vinod Khosla, Reid Hoffman, and others pretty much kept quiet. On other days, their Twitter feed will be filled with Trump hate. Looks like there is a price for American values.
The associated library by the authors, written in Haskell, can be found at https://github.com/cpeikert

I’ve not had chance to work through the material but looks like it might be fun!
Not sure, here is a NYT article on it though:

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/25/us/rhode-island-a-crossro...
That sounds really negative. We have middle Eastern immigrants mixing middle Eastern food and Quebecois food. Isn't that exactly what we hope to get out of immigration? We invented something new and wonderful by combining cultures.

Maybe I'm just sensitive to the word "appropriation" being used as a blanket for "political correctness." aka. a new form of xenophobia because thou shalt not mix cultures for some reason?
Canadian here. Although my personal politics tends to be CENTRE-right (note the capitalization) and favouring market forces, I do see some merit in supply management to avoid the extreme pain being experienced by the American dairy farmers mentioned in the article. Yes, we mostly do prefer supply management, paid for by dairy consumers, than massive subsidies, paid for by all taxpayers and leading to wasted output.

For details, read Wikipedia [0]. Some quotes:

- High (tariffs) are only placed on imports above the quota, not on all the dairy products sold to Canada.

- Canada's milk quota system is butterfat-based so the highest TRQ is on butter at 298.5%.

- By 2018 the United States's quantitative (tariff) threshold for the import of milk products is 3% and Canada's is 10%.

- designed to prevent shortages and surpluses, to ensure farmers a fair rate of return and Canadian consumer access to a high-quality, stable, and secure supply of these sensitive products.

Mr T, in his incendiary speeches to his tribe, was selective with his facts. The 300% tariff does not apply to all dairy; only butter and only when exceeding USA's quota (Canadian farmers who exceed their quota cannot sell at all). The threats and beatings delivered by Mr T's negotiators did "open up" the Canadian dairy market a little, but supply management is still intact and "diversification" is now on the minds of many Canadians.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_management_(Canada)
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To be fair, a blockchain is the data structure, the mining software, the client wallets, the protocol of broadcasting and collecting transactions, the network of computers to make this work, and the people who use them.

Not to mention the various added value innovations to make a particular blockchain attractive and useful to some people.
What’s top healthcare defined as - my doctor was nice to me? My doctor made me feel better? My doctor was better?
This is a great list. I strictly adhered to them all. I also did the following:

1. Created a Google Doc for the direct to enter an agenda ahead of time. They were not required to fill it out. Many did anyway. It helped me prepare to listen, knowing the topics.

2. Scheduled time in a meeting room. I know lots of people like to do the walking 1-on-1s. I don't. I think it's hard to have face-to-face communication when you're standing next to each other, and it's nigh impossible to take any kind of notes. That said, if my direct said: "can we just go for a walk?", I released the meeting room and we went for a walk.

3. Blocked my calendar for 15-30 minutes on either side of the meetings. This ensured I had time to move from one meeting to the next and allowed for a bit of spillover time if necessary (say the previous meeting room occupants were slow in vacating, a common occurrence).
I've used apple maps from Day 1 - I've honestly never really had an issue with it - other than very early, it had huge issues with finding addresses - they fixed that within the first year.

No mapping application should, can, or will be 100% accurate its up to you as the user to ensure the directions given are sane and reasonable.
One can't. That would require management "speccing it out" (ie. knowing what they're asking for).

The only fix for that problem is replace management, which would have to be done ... by management.
There's a more fundamental problem you're hitting on. Somehow we have shifted from responding to rationality to responding to noise. Granted it's always been the squeaky wheel that gets the oil, but now you have the cow squeaking for oil. That was one awkward metaphor... What I mean is that in times past getting involved in issues took a decent amount of effort and time. You had to really care about an issue to become active with it. Now the internet provides a 0 effort means for people to chip in with their 2 cents. And so there's a lot of noise that says absolutely nothing, even without bots. And the worst part is that companies and individuals are increasingly treating the noise as the signal, and that's counter productive.
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It's also the continuation of a trend by the intelligence services in recent months to "dox" their opposition+. Not sure why the change: perhaps a realization that information is impossible to contain these days so they may as well leak it to their best advantage.

+E.g. Russian dudes in jogging pants going to Salisbury to see the cathedral..