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Generally speaking businesses that actually bring outside money into an area tend to be large businesses. There are obviously exceptions but small businesses usually rely on capturing economic activity that would have occurred anyway in the area. Amazon in NYC brings significant outside revenue from all over the US and in some cases the world into NYC. Most small businesses in NYC don't do this - they are mostly competing against another for the consumer that would've happened locally anyhow. Looking globally, even large businesses are just competing against one another in the same way but for any give municipality, there are benefits to being home to large corporations that are able to bring revenue from outside into the local economy.
I would believe that running a “marketplace” full of commingled crud is somewhat of a natural monopoly. I don’t really believe that read online commerce is a real natural monopoly. A law that got rid of the liability shield that Amazon currently enjoys for the trademark infringing crap they sell might make a huge difference.
Not an investor but the name (brand recognition) alone is probably worth more than 234 million, no?
As a taxpayer I would prefer we didn't give any for profit business so much as a nickel.

Part of what's so ridiculous about all this is if you picked 2 places for Amazon to go then NYC and DC would be right near the top. They want government money, they want access to talent. Obvious choices. If neither city gave them a cent they would still end up there.
The corollary being that you don't need to worry about breaking things when upgrading libc
I agree with this. As a software engineer from Queens I think Amazon moving in is great but the bidding process and subsidies that came out of it are upsetting. New York would have had no issues filling up that space without giving out handouts. (Google is expanding without any).

It's especially sad to see because my father just spent 2 months (working >80hr weeks) and thousands of dollars to move his carpentry shop from Bushwick to LIC after getting priced out due to gentrification. Now it looks like he'll have to do it again soon because the city decided to give the richest company in the world a 325 million cash grant. (https://mobile.twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/10623746032328...)
I'd put network use in a different category. It is an important issue though.

Thankfully the tools are getting better for this. The recently supported font-display property is a great one. It allows devs to choose how to handle web font rendering over slower internet connections.

Now I just wish more devs would start to take advantage of all the great performance tools available. Those best practices are unfortunately rarely taught.
Literally eating a Blue Apron as I read this.

This is too bad, I just started doing Blue Apron and I really like it. I'm actually a good cook but I get stuck in a rut with respect to cooking the same things over and over again so it's been nice to have some enforced variety, especially when it comes to sides or bowl/hashes.

The quality is good, the prices seems fair. Just seems like a fraught model.
I got what the article was saying. The point just makes no sense to me. Amazon got $2.4B in subsidies. To say, "it's unethical to ask for that" is functionally equivalent to saying "the only ethical thing is for Amazon to donate $2.4B to the cities."

And if the argument is Amazon shouldn't take the subsidies because it's bad PR, well you'll have to weigh the cost of that bad PR against the $2.4B savings they've negotiated for themselves.

You assume it's a "bad" deal. But Amazon says they'll spend $5B on construction costs and upwards of $5B per year paying their employees for years and years to come. Seems like a smart deal for the city on the face, assuming maximizing tax revenue is a goal.
I guess it didn't have a passcode? Just let the police try whatever they have, as long as you have the iOS 12 update that disables accessories and thwarts "GrayKey" there's no need to remotely wipe it.
Clearly there's a lot of deep, financial analysis that's done in determining whether giving Amazon financial incentives is a good idea (i.e. bring enough jobs & tax revenue to compensate for the tax breaks). It's probably not done by all cities, but certainly the bigger ones.

I'm curious why we don't see those analyses in news stories about HQ2. It's possible that governments don't publish them, but why? Some sort of NDA agreement with Amazon? It feels like those numbers would make people more favorable to HQ2 coming to their city.

EDIT - Found this NYT article, but it's light on the numbers: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/nyregion/amazon-long-isla...
I've been working through "Probability - For the Enthusiastic Beginner" by David Morin. Very affordable for a textbook, clear instructions, solutions to exercises in the book is provided.
If you’re a bog standard “dark matter developer” using high level languages or writing your typical SAAS app, you wouldn’t need it.

I turned down a job offer where the interviewer was more concerned about whether I could write a merge sort on the board (I did), than whether I could design a system. It told me a lot about the kind of people they hire.

I spent my first 12 years as a developer doing a lot of bit twiddling in C writing cross platform code with nothing but the standard library, but these days if someone asked me how to sort I would call a library function. Heck even C has a built in sort function.
66 mya. Never forget.
For me, it's mainly the winter. I only own one item each of the things I need, and I need all of the stuff to survive when it's below zero.

It's also not really a problem any more since I'm well over the hump of getting into the habit. It's more that I tend to misplace things in general. ;-(

I pump up the entire family fleet every Saturday. No computer, no water bottle. Part of the deal was figuring out what stuff I can confidently leave behind. As an extreme example, I can live with the possibility of getting a flat tire during the summer, since I'm never more than two miles from work or home.
Good for you, but your interview experiences would be atypical these days
> its a valid argument against why Amazon should get billions in subsidies to essentially gentrify Queens

Because they’re bring more than they cost to the city? High-paying taxpayers, an educated workforce, technical talent and a reason to build out the East River infrastructure?

New York’s permitting process is broken. (Not as badly as California’s, but that’s a terrible baseline.) To get these sorts of anchor tenants, we unfortunately have to pay. Fortunately, we’ll make it back in payroll, income, capital gains, property and sales taxes.

I’m a New York City taxpayer, and while I’d prefer we get every penny of taxes owed, some gain is better than nothing. Perfect can’t be the enemy of the good.
That's not what happened at all.

A person manning the front desk, not one of the judges, accepted the entry fee and let them compete.

At some point, the judges were made aware that the car was an EV, and disqualified from the rules, which clearly stated that only ICE vehicles were permitted. No reinterpretation required. Just simple, straightforward application of the existing rules. They should have refunded the entry fee after disqualifying the Tesla; it's not clear if that happened or not (the original article didn't say).

Hybrids are ICE vehicles, and at any rate there was a specific exception in the rules allowing hybrids to compete. Per the website, hybrids compete as their own class, but it's possible it was changed after the event. Presumably, next year the event will allow EVs to compete as their own class.

What happened is about as classy as Tesla die-hards complaining when Teslas don't get special treatment.
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technically for primatives too, since they are interned, immutable and their value is their identity?
Nowhere near it - and neither do most other developers in the US.
Aren't you ever embarrassed that you work on accounting software but 'haven't been able to really figure out loops' (as you said elsewhere) to the extent that you study more and really nail down the bare basics of programming?
>This random reddit comment describes the situation with NYC subsidies pretty well.

His argument was "I found it hard to start a business in New York, therefore it's nearly impossible to start a business in New York without help, therefore Amazon needs the $2 billion in subsidies".
Woah, this is pretty scary. Thank you for sharing. How did you know it was mold that was in the air? Is there some sort of test kit that you can buy to test for this. Mold is pretty hard to detect because you can't really see it because it typically hides between the walls.

Any advice appreciated.
No. The sunk cost comes into play in explaining why we've gone to Disney World three time too many simply because we bought some multi-day package years ago. I hate Disney. She hates Dianey. But, we gotta use up the stinking tickets.
Amazon doesn't give out jobs out of the goodness of their heart. Every person they employ they do so with the goal of making more than it costs to employ that person.

So why should they get so much as 1 cent to help with that?

It's an awful broken system and the politicians who enable it should be tossed out of office.
What if I use the gmail/slack/whatsapp website instead of the app, and remotely log the phone out of google/etc if my device is seized. That way the data was only stored in RAM, and they shouldn't be able to access it once they get into the phone. Does that count as destruction of evidence?
We are in agreement.

This is what should really be happening with the cities viying for the business of Amazon, Twitter, whomever.

I'm constantly flabbergasted by how short sighted both cities and companies are about the long term impact agreements will make on a given area. They think in terms of placating concerns via taxes but don't look at the true opportunity loss from not addressing future quality of life in an area. FFS tech companies should deeply be judged on this factor when being assessed for a new HQ, as they clearly are not currently going through a rigorous process which will play out in a decade plus.
If only Firefox Multi-Account Containers were a feature, not an addon.

The fact that containers don't sync well is probably my biggest frustration with Firefox at the moment.
ever since they've switched to the quantum engine it also feels really fast, almost faster than chrome with the exception of youtube, which feels sluggish sadly.
> other than brain-machine interfaces disrupting the web

these are probably coming sooner than we'd expect (neuralink supposedly has an 'exciting' update coming within the next few months), so, i wouldn't personally expect the way we interact with or even define the web to remain constant even, say, 10 years from now.
There's a difference between mentoring which is usually or always for free and coaching that you get paid for. If you want to be paid for your time and expertise, you can sell your coaching/tutoring services. If they accept, then it's a win win for the both of you.

In my experience, most people that have asked me for my help have not been too serious. If you went out of your way and it didn't work out, that's not a good sign. It's good to do an easy test or just say no.
This is actually pretty wrong. Most likely they knew the real valuation was closer to $1, and so similar to the trajectory of a missile that goes up first so it can coast down, the IPO valuation is propped way up, to give plenty of room for it to fall during the lockup period and still be overvalued.

Making ~4x the (approximate) real valuation (which is already probably way higher than what they paid per share to invest) probably meant a significant return. Kind of like private equity strategy from inside a start-up.

I’m sure that employees with relatively low amounts of options plus a lockup period, needing to use their own money to buy the stock, with some more recent employees at relatively bad strike prices by comparison, did get screwed over.

Which is why you never, never accept options-based equity as compensation, and never accept an ultimatum between a competitive salary + low equity vs. less than market salary + higher equity. The lottery winners for whom these arrangements worked out should not factor into your judgment. And likely any experienced engineers should be requiring bonuses, meaningful severance, comprehensive insurance and a host of other forms of compensation.
I don't skip breakfast, and I'd rather not eat in a car. I used to eat in the car, and I'm much happier and healthier not doing that.

I chat with friends and family over Bluetooth headset already when I want to.

I get enough sleep, believe it or not. I do agree this could be helpful for people who don't.

Podcasts work great for me today, although I this is a decent suggestion.

Doing nothing, in a good way, is exactly what I like about driving. It's a chance to be mindful in the present moment with a controlled activity. I don't need a computer to drive for me to do "nothing".
TL;DR:

Money.
Additionally, companies should provide more/longer maternity leave and flexible working hours.

So, ultimately it's just reasons why anyone would leave a company.

Either the pay is too low, or the job is too onerous and doesn't fit into a life that isn't 100% based on work.

Personally I've always been a bit confused by maternity leave because it seems like common sense to just allow sabbaticals in general for any reason, but we're not there yet it seems, so maybe it's a good first step.
> Outside the US bubble... libertarianism is seen as pretty extreme and elitist.

I doubt it. What's your evidence for this?

> South American politics bending over to the american way of life--a foregone notion

What does this mean?
How is that disingenuous? Amazon is as aggressively anti-union as any company out there. This is exactly in line with the platform she was elected on and the things she is saying are exactly what the people in her district voted for.

The NLRB is as much a corporate tool as anything else. Collective bargaining happens through unions and actual collective action. Not by hoping regulators do enough to keep the company at bay.
The car may be ready 24/7, but humans have a nasty habit of all wanting to travel at the same times. In reality the vast majority of trips will happen at rush hour and most cars will sit idle the rest of the day.

It’s brand suicide to not have a car when needed so fleets will be sized for peak load. When you apply queuing theory none of the numbers seem to add up.
There's a "stable" software option available for organizations for Windows 10 Home.

I switched over to the "Semi-Annual Channel" in Windows Updates advanced options. The "Semi-Annual Channel" is for "widespread use in organizations" versus the "Semi-Annual Channel (Targeted)" which is "ready for most people."

Also, the updates can be deferred for up to 365 days, but I'm not sure if that would slow the updates down rather than just delay them.
If the car is at a stop sign no person walking in front of them could possibly be jaywalking.
1st of all, these sort of tax incentives are quite common, who wouldn't want a giant company moving into their area and creating 10k's of jobs... it's worth it to the local economies...

Just look at Wisconsin and [foxconn](https://money.cnn.com/2018/06/28/technology/foxconn-wisconsi...) a taiwanese company getting 4 billion in incentives

Amazon will create 10k's of jobs paying on average above 100k/year and by proxy of these wages the workers will then inject millions into the local economies of these places right? ... it's win-win.
At least with writing, you have to have gone through the effort to churn out the words and invested the time and energy to put together a story. But expending effort on it alone doesn't make it good... "Literary" fiction tends to fall into this trap a lot, and leans hard towards overwrought character studies of really awful, boring people and their sordid little lives. Every time I see a pickle dish, I have PTSD flashbacks to junior year English and beating Ethan Frome to death...
Yeah. It was super weird. Over the years, my guess is that the rest of the department made her do a lot of stuff she didn't want to do. If particular students (like me) worked hard on those things, she punished them as a kind of retribution. I never could figure out what she thought English was about, though. She was super keen on reading literature and it was mandatory to fawn over famous writers. I couldn't figure out where she thought these books came from and how famous writers became famous. As I said, completely messed up. I transferred to a different school at the end of the year (my family was moving around), but I heard she had a nervous breakdown and retired from teaching, which is probably an incredibly good thing.
>But why are we attaching any value to the needs of renters? Economically, if your only concern is the benefit of renters then it never makes sense to enrich property values in an area because rent will rise.

Whether you're a capitalist who believes in the value of entrepneurship or a communist who focuses on honest labor, the one thing you should agree on is that socioeconomic policy should do everything it can to limit the growth in property values. The last thing we want to do is to enrich the landed gentry.

(Note that rent control is not really pro-renter; it merely helps early renters at the expense of new renters. This is similar to how propping up growth in property values by restricting housing development enriches early property owners at the expense of prospective new property owners)
I don't think it's really just you. Most academia seems to have a hyper-focus on algorithms and data structures. I don't know what kind of jobs they're expecting people to apply for - I'm not writing an implementation of the C++ STL, and I'd argue most of the time it's a mistake to write your own data structures with such a great ecosystem of existing implementations.

Don't get me wrong. It's great to know how binary search works, or to understand algorithmic complexity - those things come in handy. But you probably don't need to know how to find the largest palindrome in a string and you almost definitely shouldn't be writing your own hashmaps in real world code. Most people would benefit a lot more from domain specific knowledge. How do system calls work? What's a load balancer? etc, etc. Even being domain specific, a lot of the ideas can be applied outside of the context it was created in, and so knowing these things is incredibly useful.

Thankfully, most of the interviews I've had have focused a lot more on real-world situations and topics. Maybe academia will some day catch up and at least balance the focus out a bit.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/did-scott-walker-and...

It was a pretty bad deal for Wisconsin.
I'm surprised no one is suggesting a basic revisiting of first principles. How optimized is your nutrition? Are you exercising frequently, and getting plenty of regularly scheduled, high quality sleep? Anecdotally, I know that when I stop prioritizing my health—my working memory goes, and it's all downhill from there.
I implemented a compile-time test framework in Gambit Scheme in 7 lines of code, and Python's yield in about 20 or so.

http://billsix.github.io/bug.html#_make_generator

Lisp code has few wasted moves. Programming in it does require changing your mindset of syntactic beauty. And once your mindset changes, you can make whatever syntax you want.

Perhaps the biggest hurdle is that the code is not best read linearly. The reader must understand the order of evaluation, which follows very simple rules, in order to understand the code correctly. That hurdle is definitely worth the jump.
Because they are the people who live there, because they make their lives there, because having large percentages of their wealth stripped away by some leech doesn't make them worse or lesser people.

Why do we care about the needs of landlords? We should be catering to the people who actually live in an area.

It's not just not compassionate, it's a disgusting hatred of the lower class.
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All I see is a formula. Is that the calculator?
> What is the penalty for destruction of evidence? If it's less than the crime at hand, it's logical to wipe.

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoliation_of_evidence#Tamperi... , in my non-lawyerly (hence probably imprecise) summary, the act of destroying evidence can be regarded as incriminating evidence.
I ride a motorcycle every day as my primary way of commuting to work. The only time in 10+ years I've been in a serious accident is when inattentive car driver rear-ended me on a highway. In his own words: "but I didn't see you". In the bright daylight. I was wearing hi-viz jacket.

So I am super excited about any substantial progress in self-driving cars deployment.
I'm not sure if we are using the same terminology, but I think Intel has the opposite arrangement, with more "load buffers" than "store buffers". In Table 2-7. L1 Data Cache Components from https://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/manual/64-ia-32-archit..., it says:

Sandy Bridge
Load buffers 64 entries
Store buffers 36 entries
Line fill buffers (LFB) 10 entries

I think Haswell (and later?) are 72/42/10 per physical(?) core, also with more load than store. How does this match up with what you know about AMD? And do you have a clear number of LFB's (or whatever they call the buffers which are allocated only for L1D misses) for AMD?

Edit: I now see the link you gave in your other comment. Hmm. I think numbers you gave do correspond to the inverted ratio numbers for Intel, and I couldn't find any claimed number corresponding to LFB's. We do have a couple AMD machine we test on, and I think we did, but I don't recall the exact numbers, other than a general recollection that they were about about the same as the Intel. In his RWT post, Travis claims Ryzen as having 8-10.
I have done this, but found that often there are multiple routes available. I haven't figured out an efficient way to filter or index this yet.
A modern application developer should be at least vaguely familiar with Unicode, so character encodings should not be an entirely foreign concept.

You should be able to use a search engine to figure out what ASCII is, though. That's fair game to expect. The text document mentions ASCII, so it's not like a developer would be left without a clue.
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Money. When he realizes how much more he could be making doing software, he'll switch.
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If you check out Matthias wandel's YouTube channel, he does some experiments with hours-long recording of room particle counts. This is in a woodshop (sawdust) setting with a similar diy filter setup.
220M children who don't legally exist (2013)
I thought complexity theory was based on the fairly intuitive Turing machine model (of computation) and not religious concerns
Or fixing MTA.

Seriously, making it easier for people to get around the city would give them better access to a wider range of potential employers, which would nudge upward mobility across the city in a positive direction. I wouldn't be surprised if the ROI on that kind of thing is much better than what they were willing to pay to airlift in a tech darling.