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> I get asked all the damn time by young people in my side job how they can become software developers so they too can make the big bucks. Simple, put fingers on keyboard, struggle, and figure it out through practice. None of them follow through. None. Some of these guys make far less than the national average and they still aren't motivated.

That's a good point, and I know exactly the kind of people you mean, but that's not because those people lack the drive to struggle for more money. It's because they really have no interest in programming whatsoever but become convinced that they can overcome that lack of interest long enough to learn how to do it. But they all underestimate how freaking boring programming can be and how it really takes a certain personality type to do it. Honestly, I think if programmers all got $500,000 a year and our own private jets, it wouldn't increase the pool of competent programmers by all that much.

This is a phenomenon that's pretty unique to programming, so I don't think that's what Kashkari was talking about. I feel like he's talking more about people who want a better job in their same field but perhaps all the better jobs are a little bit too far away from them, or maybe the better jobs contain more responsibility than they can handle at their pay rate, etc. So if you just bump the salary up a little bit, you expand your circle of applicants just enough to include a few more qualified people.
I would never SD card boot a Pi in a production environment unless your software can handle a read only file system, the card corruption issues are so widely documented at this point. Thankfully USB boot volumes are supported now.
Not my field, only related to it, but looking at the ERI antenna catalog, they resemble human designed variations on yagi, dipole and log periodic antennas...

https://www.eriinc.com/catalog/antennas/
>not over-engineered

Always keep in mind that many people have an interest in ensuring their own job remains relevant and necessary. How else can you explain e.g. google's constant UI changes? Designer's keeping themselves busy (even though there are no real reasons for the changes)!
The best way to get a 10x developer is to have a productive senior closely mentor 10 juniors - pair programming, code reviews, testing strategies, deep dives into architecture, bi-directional knowledge sharing.

It's a case where the whetstone sharpening the knives also gets sharper by virtue of what they learn from the juniors they mentor.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

Ahhhhhh goes down smooth every time.
i try to be respectful but this is some bs virtue signaling devoid of any nuance and steeped in economic privilege that you were likely fortunate enough to grow up with. you have no right to look down on people working a job you perceive as morally dubious for money. and you seem to think that every job at fb is about glueing eyes to ads. what about people who work on cybersecurity, or counterterrorism, or combating child exploitation? there are thousands of positions where you make measurably good impact on the world.

EDIT: you certainly can look down on people for whatever, i just don't think it's justified in this case.
We did not find time to visit the farmers markets, I would certainly hope those were good.

I think what surprised me the most is that imported things with indefinite shelf lives were still quite expensive.

But it's certainly true that I am accustomed to having access to produce & spices that are probably not grown locally in Hawai'i.
To be clear, this poster is espousing the "white genocide" conspiracy theory.
A cabinet is filled by elected representatives (diet/ parliamemt/senate) in a representative depocracy, unlike the US..
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You could probably say that about 90% of the people in the Bay Area.
I agree with you 100%, but you are coming from a more liberal viewpoint.

From a moralistic viewpoint, these people are bad, and should not get help, since it is their own damn fault.

From a more conservative viewpoint comes the moral hazard argument: Some believe that if you help that person then they will never have to deal with their "bad" behavior. And it will encourage other people to engage in the same "bad" behavior so they can get whatever free goodies you are giving away.

People have all these different mental models of homelessness.
PG&E is now cutting off power preventively and homeowners should complain about it. Making everyone buy a generator for their house is not very cost effective and symptom of system collapse, but if they are going to get a $15B bill because of poor forest/land management by other entities, that's what they will need to do.

Maybe this situation will progress like the toxic waste disposal business. Break down PG&E into small utility companies so that when the $15B bill comes due the $100 million company just disappears and someone else picks up the tab.
A problem with this split is preventive care. You want to incentivize prevention, otherwise non-emergency issues can become way more costly emergencies. And just like that are both tied together, again...
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the winds look slightly worse on the west coast, but not to a degree that they cant be doing burns like on the east coast

https://windexchange.energy.gov/maps-data/325
Another good example of this is fractal antenna design that allowed significant efficiency/space improvements in mobile phones and allowed one physical antenna to work for multiple frequencies quite well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_antenna
Oh, for sure. Just agreeing with the above comment on that front.
I bet there were Nazi's whose jobs were to feed the poor in Berlin. Doesn't immunize them from what the rest of them were doing.
It's going to get even more extreme in the near future. Tesla is embarrassing all of the German auto manufacturers mightily. I think they'll need one or two to go down before they break out of their complacency.
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They're ordered by the time you accessed each last. I agree that this is, in retrospect, unintuitive and poorly designed. Will be reverting it soon enough.
The Forbes article mention that they are on track to be around $20M https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2018/11/15/move-s...
Replace 'Ben Shapiro' with any political name and 'right' with the appropriate leaning and your comment carries as much weight applied to anyone.
> Anyone know of a book that goes into this in detail?

As cheesy as it sounds, the best book I've found on this topic is Getting Things Done.

I struggle with a lot of the issues in this article, and resisted that kind of thinking for years, but learning how to break up the insane overload of ideas and things in my head and bring them into manageable chunks, living in an outside system, has really really helped.
I assume Walmart would offer the free rides intending to monetize by selling stuff. I could see free ride when you spend $100 or some such working.
Re: the flu shot story — that’s called balance billing and it is illegal if the provider was in network and the procedure was covered.

https://www.healthinsurance.org/glossary/balance-billing/
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And this man, who presumably wasn't trying to establish a Fourth Reich in Scotland, was found guilty of 'grossly offensive' behaviour:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/pug-nazi-salute-...
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Is speech protected anywhere else like it is protected in the United States?
I agree and it might not be possible to recognize such a person as a 10x dev.
I think that the real world came to get us.

We had our nice little tech enclave. And then we discovered that, even if we didn't care about politics, politics was still being done to us - governments were making policies that we had to live under, no matter how libertarian we were. We found out that housing policy had real consequences for our lives. We found out stuff like that in non-tech area after non-tech area. And after being negatively affected by stuff that we wanted to ignore, some of us started paying attention to it - not because we wanted to, but because we felt like we had to.
Basically they're reached the limits of what you can do with a 40nm process within (well, mostly) the power/thermal limits of USB microB with a basic heat spreader. While the ARM A53 cluster would almost certainly be available in smaller nodes, the uncore has sort of outlived it's welcome anyway.
At the end of the day, it's the parent's/guardian's fault for knowingly letting their kids browse on a platform where anyone can upload anything.

You are putting way too much trust in an opaque corporation to provide adequate content for young children. Just because it's "Youtube" does not guarantee anything. In fact it makes it much more dubious of a site, knowing exactly how youtube functions and how google manages it (very badly—at least for children's content).

No one is forcing you to put your kids in front of youtube. Please stop shifting blame when it's your fault for trusting random recommendations from an opaque, broken algorithm to filter endless random content, run by an uncaring corporation.
I'm pretty sure this is called a natural monopoly in microecon
Why does the "he can't get hacked without a computer" keep coming up all over this discussion?

You're not a failure as a health minister if you get cancer.
For the sake of sustainability, I want to discourage people from using one-time payments. For the time being charge -> cancel manually is the preferred way to do this.

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I had the pleasure of getting married in one of these structures: The 113 year-old Grecian Shelter [1] in Prospect Park.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grecian_Shelter
Cloud providers have standardized on VMs. If I were to deploy an app in the cloud using bare metal servers, I would lose all of the infrastructure, convenience and tooling provided to be by my cloud provider (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, etc).

This is the strongest argument for me to continue to use containers on top of VMs.

If someone can provide me a secure, convenient, low-cost way to run my own containers on bare metal, I would be very interested. Does such a thing exist?
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yeah that's not a false equivalence or anything
I mean SQRL does help with the fact that if you scan the login of a bad site that is portraying as a good guy then you log in with different credentials as the site url is embedded in the QR login image.

If your talking about iframing goodguys website inside of badguy website, then yes this is an issue that goodguy should not allow iframing of their login page.
Sure. Is most work like that, though?
I'm not a user but I did look at their product a while back. It seems like it's more of a spreadsheet UI for data tables, which is the next step for spreadsheets IMO.

You could argue there are extensions, scripts, plugins etc. that also do this but it seems Airtables are built for it from the ground up.
I think in general we’re about at the limit if “one size fits all” UIs especially for things as personal as workflows, customer data, etc.

I’ve long thought the idea of “A Todo App” makes no sense because everyone works a little differently. That’s why apps like Pivotal Tracker are such garbage... they support too many use cases to do anything well.

The problem is if you try to make it configurable, you still have all the complexity behind the scenes. And your configuration UI recapitulates that hell.

So there is a need for someone to come in and start over with a more configurable foundation and maintain really serious software engineering discipline so that the base layer doesn’t get infected with individual business requirements (which will eventually be infinite).

I don’t envy Airtable trying to do this with a big client roster and huge scale. I think the problem would be easier solved in a smaller company with less pressure from investment timeline.

BUT if they’ve already solved the problem, or at least solved it to their satisfaction, then they will be fine and the platform can get as convoluted as they need to make their clients happy.

It’s only if there’s research remaining, core UI questions to be solved, that they’ll have a hard time competing with whomever comes to eat their lunch.
Leaving is strictly better that organising, because at a first approximation they could just make you leave if it were different. Which they would never do.

The argument about others just replacing you is, of course, best known from chess, where it's called the "German Defense" and consists of everyone pretending they are just pawns.

Practically, there is also the almost tautological fact that whatever replacement can be found is second-best (if that). With these tech giants essentially hiring everyone that meets requirements, 20% of tech workers taking a stand will effectively mean a reduction of their workforce by the same amount, unless they are willing to lower standards.
Over my admittedly not that long career, I've found that minimizing the overhead that the daily grind creates in your productivity is by itself an art form. The grind isn't avoidable, but you can be more or less productive despite it.

As an example, I recently had a project where most of the drudgery was changing one line, testing the whole thing (including manual tests), realizing another one-liner was needed, doing it all again, etc.

Automating testing wasn't a good idea at the time (high risk code, so you don't want to pile a refactor on top of a risky change), but I figured out approximately how long the builds would take, so I started setting timers on my phone. Kick off a build, switch tracks, come back when the alarm hit. By doing that I was able to context switch more efficiently to an unrelated project rather than twiddling my thumbs for twenty minutes every time I needed to wait for the build.
I've recently started adding support for the Language Server Protocol (LSP) in a language project I'm working on, and it's a godsend. If you're not familiar with it, it's basically an editor- and language-agnostic protocol for implementing typical IDE behaviours like error highlighting, code completion, hover information, find references, etc. It solves the M*N problem in which every language would have to have a separate plugin tailored towards the APIs of every editor; now you just write either to be LSP compliant and it takes care of 90% of integration effort (writing the language server itself of course is still a lot of work).

Although it's still necessary to do a little plumbing work to integrate into each editor, this is largely boilerplate that differs little between languages. Most of the functionality resides in a JSON-RPC server implemented in your language of choice.

I've found it particularly useful when used in conjunction with the Monaco code editor [1] (the engine that powers Visual Studio Code), along with a supporting plugin for talking to a remote LSP server [2]. These make it possible to build interactive coding environments into a web app which include many of the typical editing features you're used to in IDEs.

It's great to see Apple along with other language vendors adopting this as a standard.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor

[2] https://github.com/TypeFox/monaco-languageclient
Revenue is on track for $20M in 2018 [1]. While $1.1B could be considered high by some, it's a done deal now, Airtable is a real business pulling real revenue, and their continued execution and direction will determine the rest. :)

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2018/11/15/move-s...
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it's true, i'm trying to remember. there's a couple things in the bible about Jews and some temples and some other things, that once built or once the right people have control then that marks the beginning of the second coming. ...something like that, i left Christianity a long time ago.
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Not the article the root comment is referring to. This one has GA creating timing circuits by exploiting subtle flaws in FPGAs: https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/
Any link to the videos? I'd love to see them.
I don't see why one relates with the other, unless you're saying Google doesn't hire in those countries because of Labour Laws
How is PG&E going to control housing growth into forested areas and policies of the US Forest service, among other factors that cause these fires to do so much damage? They can't, so if they don't get some legal relief on how much damage they are liable for, they may just have to abandon those areas pron to fire (ie., much of the state).
I disagreed with that point, thinking through things means not making the mistakes later.

Presenting your data should spark questions or proposals or agreement regardless how much time you put into it.

I agreed with the first 4 points, but the last one seemed weak.
Do you think most founders didn't have decent career prospects before starting a company? Are you suggesting that people start companies because they think being a founder is likely to be a high paying job? What founders are trading up in salary when they're starting their company?
Seems like an entertaining story but for that to work, the computer would have to have physical access to either each version of the circuit it designed or have the radiation-conditions in the lab programmed into its fitness functions. Neither of these conditions seem at all likely. Any evolutionary circuit design would involve the evolution of properties as modeled by some equations (as the antenna design process does) rather physical manipulation of circuits.

I suspect you're remembering some entertaining "how AI could hypothetically escape" scenario instead. Sure, maybe a "real AI" is going to escape but an evolutionary algorithm, which is just several loops around fitness and mutation functions, probably isn't going be coming up with such novel approaches.
I don't think the points about the engine are very compelling. Just because something has a number of somewhat independent pieces doesn't mean it's also not a monolithic whole at the same time. That's why it's still called an engine, and that's why even Bethesda refers to it as such. That's also why they won't move away from it -- because there's an entire toolset built on top of it that every component has to interoperate with. It's the same idea with a car -- just because it has a separate transmission doesn't mean it's not a 1990 Honda Accord at the end of the day.

That said, I will admit that my language could have been more precise. It's less that they won't "move away" from their old engine, and it's more that they won't invest properly in updating it for modern times. Anyone who has played Oblivion can attest to the fact that, even if they've swapped out the terrain system or the lighting effects system, their new games are just reskinned copies of Oblivion, complete with all the same bugs, quirks, idiosyncracies, and lack of decent PC support that's always been there.

In the past Bethesda has relied on modders dealing with things like supporting modern monitors. Now that's not possible with Fallout 76, so the poor PC support becomes much more pronounced.

For what it's worth, I think it's hard to draw too many conclusions from the Steam hardware survey, because that's including everyone with Steam. Instead of asking how many Steam accounts have a 21:9 resolution monitor, it would be better to ask how many potential PC buyers of Fallout 76 have a 21:9 resolution monitor, and I suspect the number is higher than 2 million. You have to keep in mind many of those 1080p 16:9 folks have Steam on an old desktop or a laptop that couldn't even run Fallout 76 decently -- there are plenty of 2D indie games that would still justify having Steam installed.
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btw: Draftable was a great tool to do the side-by-side comparison of the licenses. Definitely recommend if you want to display diffs in docs on the web. (Disclosure: I wrote this blog.)
Funny that you believe Glassdoor salaries as being accurate. People who earn the big bucks don't advertise that on Glassdoor.
Just in case anyone reads this and gets the wrong impression. Elizabeth Warren wasn't arguing for a $35/hr minimum wage, but just making a point that if the minimum wage had increased at the same rate as the earnings for the top 1% it would be at $33/hr. She was actually arguing for a $10/hr minimum wage.
Was it Creatures From Primordial Silicon?

http://www.netscrap.com/netscrap_detail.cfm?scrap_id=73

They used a FPGA for voice detection. It was fascinating they didn't understand how it worked, and it wasn't a universal design because it depended on manufacturing variation.
Right-wing people have decided that George Soros is a proxy / representative for "globalism" (an anti-semitic dog-whistle). When people are angry at Soros, it is a dog-whistle for prejudice / hatred against Jewish people. It's not obvious that this is the case to people outside of right-wing groups, which is why it gets so much unexplained press.
> have a ton of redundant jobs because of their inability to make needed structural changes because of the work councils and labor laws.

How will they able to adapt to truly focus on electric cars then? Especially when that means many of their suppliers become redundant.
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This is indeed an issue, many usb 2 style chargers only provide 500ma per port, the Pi 3 is recommended for use with 2.5A power supplies. The official FAQ calls this out as well.

Even many wall chargers don’t provide this - the standard one shipped with an iPhone that many people likely have isn’t powerful enough either.

> https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/faqs/
Equating Soros and the Kochs is literally insane.

Edit: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/donald-trump-george-...

Please find me an example of Obama publicly endorsing a left wing conspiracy theory about the Koch brothers. I'll wait.
They just threw the words '50k jobs, economy, and did I mention jobs?' in there, and that's all it took.

I'd bet that the same thing would happen if Microsoft, Apple, Google, or any other number of big tech firms decided to 'branch out.'
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I know I don’t need it, it’s about impact.
From the people I know using huge amounts of centos in production, they're not going to pay for RHEL, if centos becomes non viable they'll be switching to debian-stable and debian-testing.
> cannot comprehend is why web applications are almost universally installed and managed through command line, rather than web interfaces. The only advantage of a command-line interface is pipe chaining

Repeatability, scriptability, debugability ... ?
And then what incentives and accountability structure will see the government actually effectively mitigate these risks?