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The problem here seems to be twofold: ambiguous policies, and little care for transparency and communication.

On the policies side: Upwork doesn't seem to have real written rules in place on at what point too many jobs for one company puts them at risk of violating the CA freelancer law. This makes it easy for a person to inadvertently place their livelihood at risk by doing what Upwork would otherwise be encouraging them to do -- more business through Upwork.

On the transparency side: Once someone breaches this invisible line, Upwork doesn't feel the need to communicate it to anyone. That would be expensive, and it seems to cut against Upwork's interests, so the wire is tripped silently and the party on either side of the transaction basically goes mad with confusion while they try to figure out what happened, until they finally exhaust themselves and give up.

Each of these is inexcusable and absolutely needs to be civil offense. The stories of people silently and irreversibly shut down by impenetrable platforms and then not able to even reach a human who can explain what went wrong are legion with internet-based services. Now that those services form the basis of a large swath of working people's livelihoods, this absolutely needs to end. Part of the cost of doing business should be clear rules and clear lines of communication when the rules need to be enforced, and an appeals process staffed by humans, or else these companies should be forced to pay out for lost income.
I’ve had people genuinely get angry at me because I’d just been ignoring all IM’s for a few days.

They were worried about whether I was still alive, but the concept of calling to confirm was apparently foreign.

I kind of want to stop using social media, but I guess everyone will think I hate them or something.
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I didn't noticed a lot of changes with 2000 IU but at 5000 IU the effect on mood is dramatic and quite noticeable. Being liposoluble the effect has quite a latency over several days.

It's basically the "summer vacation" feeling.

(Be carefult to take pure D3 not something mixed with calcium though: effective dosage of vit D. would bring into calcium overdosage.)
> being a proxy for racism/sexism

Genetic variation inside races is much larger than between them. I don't think that that genetic screening is a good idea, but if it would be rigorously and blindly applied, it would probably break up many race and gender barriers.

We already do ad hoc screening based on phenotypes determined by genes.

* taller men have higher wages than shorter men.

* beautiful women get jobs more easily than ugly women.

* facial asymmetries and other small deviations from the norm affect the prospects of many people.
These tax breaks really anger me, especially because the actual benefits typically fail to offset the lost tax revenue. And of course you have this race to the bottom as you said.

In Washington, we gave an $8.7 billion tax break to the aerospace industry (read: Boeing) a few years ago. Look how that turned out for us.
If you have a lead role on a team the large majority of your time should be leading the team by doing all those non-development tasks. If you're trying to also cram in mission critical development you're trying to do too much or your company's leadership sucks. If it's a single developer project, 1) Agile might not be the best approach, and 2) updates to management should take very little time since you just need to sum up what you personally have accomplished and are planning to accomplish vs. whatever deadlines exist.
The easy answer is change jobs. You don’t have to stay anywhere, and you presumably have one of the easiest skills to find work with today.

If you actually want mechanisms for being happy no matter what, start realising that none of the stuff you’re stating as issues actually matters, and you can work on accepting that. What does the walls have to do with your happiness? You control if you’re happy or not.

Stoicism-like ideas and reading can help (or at least do for me, minus the religious bits) with realising that external factors do not matter for your happiness. Happiness is 100% controlled by your mind. There are unhappy people who have all the things you say you lack and way more, and there are happy people who have none of them, and are in situations that are objectively way worse than yours, so the state of material things is not the defining factor for your happiness. The defining factor is you and how you choose to react to external things.
I have found that adding white, sun-like light, using LED bars for example can help. One can't easily simulate sun light but I found adding several light sources, at least 4 can make a difference. In my experience, working in bursts with "strong" breaks help, for example grabbing a cup of coffee and spending 10min outside every 1.5h.
That's all very true, and it's sad that we haven't explored this space more.

It's a nice in-between something like a Smalltalk image-environment-IDE / Lisp Machine and a dumb IDE/editor that starts from source code and has to parse into AST into its own...
Probably because they don't care if it's made by STMicroelectronics or by GigaDevice. Most likely it is made by GigaDevice, but maybe they thought calling it a GD32F103C8T6 would be meaningless to many people and calling it an STM32F103 would be dishonest and so this was a compromise. Or maybe they found a third source that would have an even less recognized name.

How did things work back in the day of (official) second-sourcing? Did you just refer to a MC68000 even if you meant generically any of MC68000/HD68000/MK68000/etc? I guess it helped that it had such a unique model number and any of them could just be referred to as a 68000. I guess calling this a 32F103 would be the equivalent in this case.
When I work with our offices in India, the teams there are incredibly hard workers. We've had issues with quality control of code, etc now and then however, there are a lot of really top notch programmers pulling hours to meet the goals of an office remote to them. Its honestly incredible.

I think there is a different workplace culture in India. Hard work does not always equate to quality work, occasionally some really braindead stuff comes out that someone slogged through.

If I saw H1B's coming in on weekends, I think its partly cultural and they might also just be younger and have less weekend commitments in general.

On the flip side, if you lose your H1B status you are pretty screwed, so the company has you by the balls and tends to pass you up for promotion.
It does say this: "The 5V1A is powered by JTAG and UART micro-usb, so no additional power interface is required"

A fair amount of monitors and TVs have a USB port, so it would make a decent digital signage solution. Assuming you want your content just as files on a thumb drive.
CNAME is absolutely an issue, especially when using managed hosting. Many hosts require that you CNAME since they move around IPs. (e.g. Heroku) so unless you put a provider in front of them that integrates with your DNS you need www.
Facebook has about a thousand people in NYC afaik?
This could also be described as hyperthreading in software
Perfect is the enemy of good. By reducing the possibility of null dereference exceptions from 100% to 10% you have reduced the cognitive burden by 90%. Removing the bypass would result in a 100% reduction in cognitive burden, only 10% more than the second best solution. However handling null cases correctly isn't free either. Especially when you know that a value cannot be "null" under certain conditions which those 10% fall under. In those cases handling the error "correctly" is actually an additional cognitive burden that can ruin the meager 10% gain you have obtained by choosing the perfect solution.
Exactly. We all have the same 24 hours, how we we choose to prioritize is up to us. But I’m not interested in excuses of “I don’t have the time.” You MAKE the time when it comes to your health.
Mondo is just a typical body shop. I did a very short contract through them once which was a nightmare. They took forever to pay and nobody seemed to understand the payment schedule so getting an answer as to when I was going to get paid was a constant punt of responsibility around the company.

Sure it's just one experience, but they are crossed off in my book. I still get their recruiters emailing me on occasion (often more than one of them for the same position which is its own kind of mess), but I set the domain to just go right in the trash
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> We've completely stopped building council homes for no apparent reason

Decades of Tory policy, that one. Councils were forced by central government to sell it off way below market value and prevented from using the resulting money from building more houses.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/26/right-to-buy...

> The fact that there are massive fields everywhere that people aren't allowed to build on

Greenfield building is hugely unpopular with voters, especially Tory voters. Planning restrictions have popular support.

> We can make transport faster and better as well

I'd like to see that, but decades of privatisation have preferred "cheaper".

> I think people should refuse to work jobs that don't pay enough to exist. Individually or collectively, doesn't matter.

And how should they eat and live in the meantime? Refusing jobs will get you taken off JSA, and possibly sent on the unpaid work programme.

> Personally I don't understand how London's service industry works at all.

Overwhelmingly staffed by immigrants and children of immigrants, often living in cramped conditions.

> "must" live there regardless of resources

For a lot of people in the peripheral towns, it's the other way round: if you want to better yourself and get a professional job, that's where you've got to be. The networking effects are huge.

> I'd have left yesterday if I felt my options were limited to working in the local supermarket

Every day hundreds of people leave peripheral towns and head to London because that's the choice they face.
But I want to know predispositions of a candidate before election. I don't want to elect a liar.
> From the plot we can see that the real stock price went up while our model also predicted that the price of the stock will go up. This clearly shows how powerful LSTMs are for analyzing time series and sequential data.

Is laughter or tears the right reaction here?
Some Buddhist wisdom:

In life, we will always find “shining cities” to chase. The perfect house, the perfect job, the perfect romantic partner, the perfect software team.

But, like a mirage, when we reach these goals it seems that the thing we thought was perfect is actually riddled with flaws.

“The shining city” is purely a mental construct, one that gives us structure and purpose, staving off “existential nausea” - the anxiety that comes from living a directionless existence.

The way to everlasting peace is to be able to acknowledge: “we live in the shining city right now. Everything is operating according to the laws of physics, humans follow human nature and their genetics. Everything is exactly how it should be.”

But this isn’t “giving up”. It’s ok for us to have “shining city goals”. It’s human nature. It’s fun and allows us to experience a journey.

But at the end of the day when you see the mirage fade, smile about the journey and the experiences you had along the way.
Is it just me or does it seem this would be trivial to detect with tangible proof? One or several software-defined radios can be set up to listen to the full breadth of the radio spectrum. If an incident like this is ever reported again, correlate the waterfall view with the time of the incident, and see if there were any increases in activity in that period. I currently believe this was a mass hysteria.
They also have jobs and families and city commutes and other such stuff. It's also easy to see someone with a common interest during some 1-2 hour weekly session, and only that.

In the end, the closed door few common areas of apartment buildings (not talking about expensive condos with shared pools and stuff), means people see each other and interact less than some neighbors in a rural/suburban neighborhood.
Sure, there are accessibility issues for people like you, but the density of text cannot be overstated. Imagine transformig a textbook with all of its details into videos with explanations at the same level of detail. It's a gargantuan task and the playtime of such content would be in the order of years, not hours.
> “Sukhareva published more than 150 papers, six monographs and several textbooks on topics as diverse as intellectual disability, schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder, among other conditions.”

Off topic, but what’s the difference between an article, a monograph, and textbook? It seems there could be a Venn diagram of overlap— but perhaps is it just page length that is the characterizing difference?
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> Look how that turned out for us.

It seems like y'all are doing pretty well. Can you elaborate?
Unless you have a lot of self control, cutting down on reddit may make you a lot happier too.
To me, I think everyone took the processes WAY too literally which caused the whole big "A" Agile versus little "a" agile. I have seen many orgs get super wrapped up in all the typical nonsense of stories "falling over", religion about who owns the backlog which takes away autonomy of the team, religion about the process for breaking a sprint as new discoveries are made, arguing over product work versus addressing tech debt or working on automation, etc. You end up focusing more on "being agile" than delivering new features.

I 100% agree with the other comment around "checkin" points so that work doesn't linger forever, but the forced short delivery boundaries very likely slow teams down overall especially when all the process overhead of points, backlog grooming, standups, sprint planning, demo session, etc are all factored in and mandatory every 2 weeks.

Commit to some scope, on some cadence/date, loosely check in on progress, and adjust as needed as a team. Deliver as frequently as possible and demo your work when you can/should.
Definitely. Although I think the C++ header-only trend is more about not having to deal with C++'s various terrible build systems than dealing with dynamic linking.
Isn't this a problem with the sales team not being able to sale the current product?
Let's take a look what the top sites according to Alexa do:

https://www.alexa.com/topsites

Google: www
Youtube: www
Facebook: www
Baidu: www
Wikipedia: www

I see a trend here...

Would be interesting to go through the whole list and get a broader statistic.

Let's look at some of the newer/hipper sites on the list:

Reddit: www
Instagram: www
Netflix: www
Twitch: www
Spotify: www

So all 10 out of 10 major sites I visited redirected me from the non-www to the www version.
Trains move very smoothly through space, unlike people or animals, so that may be what captures their attention.
It's a little deeper than that, cats were revered because they killed snakes, scorpions, rats, etc, around the house that did harm, pharaoh's having a particularity good pick of the litter, breeding was a part of temple life.

The most common cats in ancient Egypt are still around today, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_wildcat and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_cat
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> by accepting the first freelance job you agreed to a two year exclusivity contract on the platform

I think that is only If you want to work for the same client again [Maybe has being changed in the last years?]. After a few jobs some clients will try to circumnavigate the platform. In any case I wouldn't be very surprised if some of this clients were disclosed as upwork employees in the future pushing their own agendas.

After spending some time in the platform you can see lots of strange patterns repeating here and there.
The problem with the points system like in Singapore/Hong Kong is that it heavily favours those with college diplomas. Some of the most talented people in tech that I know have no higher education but are self taught experts in their field and often have decades of experience.
If they want more tourism dollars they should just let YouTubers decide where to dig. As long as it’s not damaging anything, it doesn’t cost anything to look at things people are curious about.
I could see this being more effective for a country than it is for municipalities within a country, simply because it's more difficult for them to leave once they're established.

This is an extreme case, but I had a previous employer, a large multinational conglomerate, that moved my particular product team's home office twice in six years. Both moves were motivated by tax incentive. The cities would place conditions on how many jobs they had to "create" in order to get their perks, and they would "create" those jobs by relocating people from some other office in a town that was no longer giving them tax breaks.
Yup this seems to basically be co-employment risk mitigation. I have seen situations where there is a hard limit on how long we can hire a contractor for a task through an agency. I have also seen limitations in what we can specify, measure, reward and what we cannot.

The issue is basically that for contractors, you generally pay no benefits or retirement plans. However, if they are effectively employees, you do need to pay them that (ref. Uber driver cases where they are suing for classification as employees)
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> it's like insisting that people not speak to you in real time but instead put down their arguments onto paper

Thats not the best analogy for the complaint -- its more like insisting that instead of putting your arguments down on paper in words, you're using emoticons and forcing the reader to play charades. Though to your point, listing out your arguments is certainly a boring, bland way of conveying a topic...

Its a poor medium choice; I don't choose a 10x10px image to show you the Mona Lisa...
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That's true, I shouldn't be dismissive.

What I meant is that depending on the church and regional culture church communities don't necessarily come with the "austere fundamental parents", "no puffs or artists in our family", "sex is sin" etc cliches.
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It gets worse than that. The russian site also has to not fly over chinese territory, further increasing their minimum inclination. Chinese dont want thier stinking rockets falling on china. (Literally. Russian rockets use some nasty stuff that groups like SpaceX have stayed far away from.)
> Any replacement visa needs to be like the diversity lottery (or the Olympics) by rewarding applicants from smaller countries

The Olympics are a performance competition- the guy from “Eastern Rhodesia” might make it but he won’t get any extra help when running against Usain Bolt.

Now you are saying that companies that want to make money will be saddled with less competent talent because of diversity?
Rule #1 when working with/on a platform: Transform customers to your own platform. Do it in a way that does not violate the AUP of the platform but do everything you can to „own“ the customer contact. Never become dependent of a single platform that temporarily may work in your interest.

This rule is somewhat universal and matches all business types and platforms: Amazon, eBay, AirBnB, Uber, YouTube, App Stores.
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The advantage I do see for Agile is in shops where management is justified in their belief that developers are being over-cautious as well as too relaxed - this is exactly the atmosphere in many low-throughout software organizations I’ve seen in lots of old, non-software companies. If management is fine with lowering quality in favor of more shinies, Agile is pretty alright - it is Worse is Better codified and institutionalized. If the codebase is so bad it is impeding your ability to deliver business results, you do have justification, but time boxing efforts is important to avoid going down rabbit holes of endless refactoring.

I think most of the developers that are hating Agile are probably more disgruntled with their organizations and their culture (usually hostile to high quality engineering in most places fundamentally) than Agile itself. In a way, I think Agile (similar to a lot of automation efforts in infrastructure / IT processes I’ve worked on) simply brings out the true nature and culture of who is driving, who pretends to drive, and where things are falling apart in team dynamics. The software is usually a casualty of bad dynamics is the implication, not bad team members, but we all know this is not true.

I think the #1 thing that is missed is that the implementing team should have more control over what they work on. Someone writing a bunch of tickets and pointing them out alone reduces team ownership / responsibility and is pretty much how traditional Taylorist work models are built. Agile is fundamentally much more in line with Deming’s ideas giving much more control to the implementors and that is antithetical to at least 80%+ of businesses in the West and probably Asia too.
True, but we're casting bets here :-)
I use mosh via the Blink client and the Logitech keyboard on my '17 iPad Pro and do a lot of coding on it on remote servers. The lack of an escape key sucks and I had to figure out how to do code folding in vim but it's pretty serviceable.

Of course I still prefer giant monitors to fit a lot of different panes for inspection and debugging, but it's pretty serviceable.
Some people don’t have any alternatives to upwork. Even though the platform is shit it still puts food on the table. I still have an upwork profile but most of my business is word of mouth. The reason I keep it is because due to how I phrased my profile, once in a blue moon I get a good lead.
As if I needed more reasons to dislike Apple...

Let's hope there is enough community pushback to force Apple into making user modifications to trusted keys possible.
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While their rates are low, the issue was about additional, individual deals that lead to effective tax rates around .5% (instead of the official 12.5%, I believe).

I think the EU has done a pretty good job to find a balance here: when Ireland joined the EU in the 70s, it was among the poorest countries west of Moscow and north of Morocco. It became one of the largest recipients of net transfers over the next 30 years, but everyone knew that their chances of catching up required some economic competitiveness, and that it would take decades to pull even in terms of "Features" (infrastructure, local market etc)

Low taxes were therefore the only viable path to attract investments. That scenario is explicitly accepted even among those advocating for coordinated taxation.

In the case of Ireland, everything actually worked out extremely well: Speaking something almost resembling the english language, and having the strength of character to make peace with the English, Ireland established world-class universities and a rather remarkable knowledge economy in just one generation.
I'd put up a photo montage around your desk of outdoorsy things, and bring in a small floor mat tiled with pebbles then take your shoes off while you work and just rest your feet on the pebbles. That might produce enough sensory stimulation to keep you from going crazy.
I wonder how much that has to do with Chrome and Firefox (and probably other browsers?) prepending www (and https).

edit: I guess both of mine have some plugin doing this?