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I've had a primarily technical career so far and am working on switching to engineering management in the foreseeable future.

Once I'm done with that switch, I don't want to be frequently making technical decisions, rational or otherwise - that should be the job of the tech lead on my team, with input from everyone else.

I will, of course, need to remain technical enough that I can understand whether my tech lead is making good decisions, as you say. I'll also need my team to respect my credibility enough to know that I relate to what they're dealing with, and to be able to effectively keep them unblocked.

But none of this requires sustaining continued technical contributions within my day job past the initial transition period, at least not once the company is above a certain size.

One of the best managers I've ever worked under (indirectly) was not technical and didn't pretend to be. What she did know was people and organizations.

When have you ever heard of a large org making a re-org to solve real problems after substantial consultation and with anything close to universal buy-in? She managed that, and well enough that she correctly used arguments from the rank and file to explain the re-org to other parts of the company.

That's the kind of mentor I'll want to learn from as a manager.
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"Water tastes like nothing. Why would I drink nothing? What’s the point?"

The point is that water is fundamental to our survival. I just can't understand how someone who is presumably fairly intelligent could say something like this.
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I can also attest that their chance to pass an airport security inspection when forgotten in some pocket of a backpack is surprisingly high.
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If one watches the actual lecture, Kay says that his real title was altered by an "NIH low pass filter".

The actual title was "Is it too late to create a healthy future?"
I don't know that I would call Linux "one of the first". Usenet had been around for a long time, and there were plenty of projects that were enabled via Usenet and mailing lists. For example, perl predates Linux by four years.
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No. That's just more software engineer hand waving to avoid taking responsibility for the way their products have changed the emotional landscape for real people in the last couple of decades.

It's like saying the CIA wasn't trying to destroy communities when they were handing out crack, because "moral people wouldn't have taken it". Every single person building these platforms knew how addictive they were. It was the entire reason these companies were valued from the start. It was the end goal.

Yeah, a junkie can decide not to go find another needle. But if that is your response to the drug epidemic, you then have marginalized people who you've decreed "not worth saving". And I don't like what that has looked like over the last 60 years.
Sure, but that doesn't make it "ethical." It's still killed, and nothing wants to be killed.
I like the guy just the way he is. Say what you feel.
Debate Question: would Linux have done so well without the wintel monopoly/monoculture on which it spread?
'we don't worry about that because most people are not liars or jerks and would face repercussions themselves if proven wrong.'

...you would hope, yes.
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> In this case you want a ThreeProvider and you don't care at all how it is implemented or where the value comes from.

But that's the thing. Look at the code in the comment I replied to. It calculates 6. You would have to _read_ the code to know why. A DI framework would make this situation even worse.
Someone came up with a recipe exploiting the fact that microwaves are absorbed much more readily by fluids than solids. It was a frozen meringue with a hot center. I think it was in Sci Am. The name suggested the reverse of a Baked Alaska.
No, while they don't have the AGPL section, the wording in section 13 is pretty clear:

> you must make the Service Source Code available via network download to everyone at no charge, under the terms of this License.

Now, this only applies if you've modified the source code. But being barred from the effective right (due to the requirement mentioned above) to use modified versions of software makes it obviously proprietary.
A modern eating fork is a blunt fork. An older fork wasn't really a tool for eating from, but was really more like one of the large meat forks one uses to carve a turkey or otherwise hold meat. The tines were longer and there were often fewer of them. On top of this, they were sharpened to a point.

The difference is more like the difference between a sharp kitchen or steak knife and a dulled butter knife (even if it has a point). Sure, you can kill someone with the dull butter knife, if it doesn't bend and you hit the right spots, but it is going to be more difficult than the proper knife.
Okay, cool. Is there some reason this piece couldn't be done after hours? (Or, alternately) Is there some reason this couldn't be framed as "We are taking time off to discuss this amongst ourselves and better understand the problem space" without it being framed as a walk-out with a flyer left on the desk filled with their opinion?

Do these things have to go hand in hand?
> As a hobbyist photographer 1000 photographs is not a whole lot and I can't justify a pro account

Perhaps you're an exception, but I'd bet good money that 90+% of the people saying this easily spend more than $50 per annum on gear and software.
Location, location, location...in the concrete jungles of NYC and major cities knives are out of place (other than self defense but then you have to deal with laws etc)
Had a colleague like this: coffee and stout only. Nothing else. Never drank water.
Actually much of usenet was still civil and quite usable in the early 90s.
Not anymore. :-(

Sell before you build a product!

Don't build what you want, build what other's want!

Build what other's are going to pay money for, hell, sell it, get a contract before you write a line of code!

If you don't have a market size of multiple billions is not worth doing!

Are you going to make billions upon billions? No? don't do it!

Hobby? It's not even worth of a side project.
Exactly, this feels right to me. A manager's job should be to keep track of things but without micromanaging too much (a good example was checking being able to build your team's code on occasion etc.) and also providing the tools and protection they need from upper management so that the team can play the game.

In my previous team, I essentially had the tech lead role in the team but that role wasn't acknowledged with a title, although the entire team was very aware of it.

Ended up getting too much friction with the new manager and I left.

I got a job almost simultaneously as I left. It is much shorter commute, it pays more and it is more exciting. However it is unfortunate I had to exchange 3.5 years of rapport I've built at a place for these.
Because those people are genuinely not very intelligent. I don't think there's any point in beating around the bush and trying to find an excuse for this - it's just what it is: incredibly stupid.
That discussion is on Dopamine the startup, not the framework from Google.

Google's framework is at https://github.com/google/dopamine and I don't believe it's generated discussion on HN before.
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Shameless plug of my related submission of yesterday : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18345058

If someone can explain it, I'm open to new hypothesis.
Maybe they're referencing something like Callisto (YC Nonprofit W18):

"Founders will be able to use Callisto to securely store the identities of perpetrators of sexual coercion and assault. These identities will be encrypted in a way that not even the Callisto team can view. If multiple founders name the same perpetrator, they will be referred to an attorney who can then decrypt the founder’s contact info and reach out to provide them with free advice on their options for coming forward, including the option to share information with other victims of the same perpetrator." Source: https://blog.ycombinator.com/survey-of-yc-female-founders-on...
But wait, are the SUVs armored vehicles? Why are they getting knifed instead of gunned down? I'm intrigued by this narrative.
I guess you missed the part of the question referring to due process
Having first hand knowledge about the state of the codebase is helpful to doing your job as a tech lead / manager. Doing bug fixes / small features is a productive way to gain and maintain this knowledge.
> What are these people personally doing to ensure that they are respecting women, creating the right kind of social climate at work, etc?

By handling interactions I have with women at work cognizant of the many ways in which their experience in the workplace differs from mine.

Also, I think about my daughter, and how I'd want her to be treated if she worked here.

> They are usually people wanting someone else to fix a problem so they don't have to actually change.

I can't personally fix the problem of (IMO wrong) decisions made by management on these issues. But I can help increase the pressure (public and internal) on them to make concrete changes.
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The problem with certificates is they require a central authority, eg. politics. We need something that can work anywhere, without any third party or central authority.
Apple kernel code vulnerability affected all devices
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18355280 and marked it off-topic.
Looking at how they're doing right now - very well?
How do you know sexual harassment at Microsoft is brushed aside? (I haven't heard reports either way.)
It's odd they're marketing themselves as a Vue freelancer when their GitHub just has 1 intro project from 3 months ago. https://github.com/nrifki?tab=repositories
.NET Framework is preinstalled on Windows. If you don't target a preinstalled version and you don't bundle the runtime for your targeted version with your installer, of course that'd be bad UX. But the issue there lies with the developer, not .NET Framework.
You're asserting your conclusion, and relying heavily on irrelevant statements, and semantic arguments.

Your definition of "quantum field" is wrong. It's not necessarily correct to think of particles in general as having a "real" existence, or rather, it's at least as correct to consider them as being localized excitations of a field. That field exists everywhere: there is no "in-between" for things to be in, just places where you have a low probability of observing a "particle".

Also, arguing quantum-level behavior by analogy with macro-scale objects is superlatively misguided.
The startup actually used two different stacks / programming languages. They would generally just port my micro-services from one stack to the other and brag about the fact that they were faster than me in writing them, which, in my opinion, really isn't a fair comparison given that porting something is a lot easier than writing from scratch (since you don't have to make decisions about architecture, etc).

On your second question, I have no idea why this executive doesn't like me. I wrote a comment on another thread on my first negative interaction with him and someone suggested that my presence somehow messes up with plans he originally had. However, I can't really think of anything.
Why not use WireGuard?
Individuals with power absolutely prefer an inefficient system. Arbitrage and gatekeeping ensure their power in the future.
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We were recently talking about choke holds in Krav Maga, and it’s shockingly fast when the sides of the neck are squeezed. Within about 5 seconds, for me, I start to get tunnel vision and a profound sense of panic.
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Although I’ve read this probably a dozen times. What I think about this today, as I’m about to reviel my next project is that it’s so crazy how things evolved for open source. Nowadays people compete with companies and having an announcment like this usually includes :

- website explaining as a pitch what is better about your software

- ready to use examples and templates to support your claim

- branding with a logo that makes you look more professional

- issue tracker

- github repository ( even mirror of yours )

- bugfree software ready for production from day one.

And many more which I probably miss.

Writing something “cool” nowadays is not enough to be taken from the folks seriously.
Location? Remote? "Bay Area" is vague
I don't think that's true. I think Facebook is losing customers due to its own downsides, and Instagram is gaining customers on its own Merit. I don't think that there is a zero-sum competition between the two
As I began to learn to code back in February, I started to think about how I was spending my time. If I spent X less time on social media, that would mean I could learn Y, which would let me create Z. This idea of trade-offs has always existed but by directly comparing and visualizing my decisions, I was surprised with the results (way more distraction time than improvement time).

So I decided build Make Yourself Great Again - a tool that lets you input your weekly choices, that calculates missed opportunities and how this compounds over time. You can track how this evolves longer term and understand how your “multiplier” changes. There’s also a section of tools to help you progress in the parts of life that you find important.
What's it like to get a temporary work Visa for Kyrgyzstan for Canadians? Seems like a fun place to work/intern for a couple months.
This was before AOL.
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I always carry my gerber swagger (folding knife with a partially-serrated edge). I keep it in my wallet.

I don't know why. It comes in handy sometimes.
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Blackblaze is primarily a backup storage company. Their main bread and butter is relatively cold data storage.

Lots of VPS and similar services offer SSD storage now, and I expect it to grow. The one I use didn't even a non-SSD option, and it was a pretty cheap provider.

SSDs offer orders of magnitude better random IO, I imagine that allows the hosting company to have more clients per storage unit, lowering the effective cost of SSDs.
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Yes. At least, VSCode is using monaco-editor: https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/
I believe Henry Petroski's Evolution of Everyday Things begins by describing Western eating utensils. It also goes into similar stories about sandpaper, paperclips, and other everyday items. Great read if you enjoyed this article.
It is stateful, but with a minimal amount of state that is global. In that respect, it isn't "defeating the entire point of using stateless JWT tokens to begin with."

The point is not to be stateless for its own sake, but to leverage less state in a way that's beneficial (e.g. not having to authenticate every request). If adding back a little bit of state in a different way mitigates the major downsides, that can still be useful if it doesn't entirely negate the benefits already gained.
I'm a pretty non-picky eater, but I feel like I can usually empathize with other people's picky eating habits. Not drinking water however, is something that I just can't wrap my mind around.
They do not have any options where forced arbitration is not one of the conditions. Pretty much every corporation does this, so there are no realistic options for avoiding it.

There may be a very small number of cases where an employee successfully negotiated against this clause, but it probably requires the candidate to be a true outlier in terms of talent and skill set for the company to even consider it.
The only use for this I could think of would be if you had a massive circular private driveway. Then you could summon your car from the parking spot to the front of your mega manor.

Which is cool if you are extremely rich.
Even worse could be an RCE vuln in Chrome at the same time that the google.com search page gets compromised...

Also I think the post you're talking about is this video by Tom Scott: https://youtu.be/y4GB_NDU43Q
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Why? Apple is just a small buyer of Intel products compared to the server, workstation and PC market in general.
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I assume you're trying to be helpful, but it's a bit rough to pick flaws in someone's work in response to a freelancer post, especially the "Your website is full of errors" bit.

Since the person's email address is there, probably the helpful thing to do would be to send them a note about the errors your found.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18356732 and marked it off-topic.
No, he's pointing out that even (watts emitted)/(kgs of body region that is expected to absorb) is an over-estimate of watt/kg absorption.
I lost my knife at an airport just exactly for this reason. I bought the same one when I returned from my trip.
Strange, why hasn't it doubled now that women can contribute to Linux?
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... but some of these examples happen already. How is a CDO reporting to the CEO going to amplify any already magnified negative PR and force action?