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I saw people quoting Charlie Munger. Munger has done extensive study on the topic of incentives. If you want to know why Silicon Valley is so discriminating towards experienced people you should ask what their incentives are.

Startups are incentivized to hire the cheapest, youngest, most naive engineers possible, work them as hard as possible then flip them. If you are old you are no longer cheap or naive. If you aren’t naive, you are unlikely to work 80 hours a week. You can no longer be flipped.

Silicon Valley startups want Ivy League type executives. Why? Because the investors trust them more. Humans give money to people who resemble themselves. Ivy League VC give money to Ivy League executives.

Joining a startup has a very low probability of making you rich. In fact, they are specifically designed not to make you rich as an engineer.

To make matters worse, you have to spend 3-5 years of life you will never get back trying to get the lottery payout.

You getting rich as a non founder at a startup means the executives and venture capitalists miscalculated something. Why would they pay you a cent more than they need to? There are plenty of people in the valley who will now work for just their base salary and nothing more. Why should they give you a single dime more than this?

If you are a typical high functioning aspergers engineer, you are better off using your skills to become a quant or a trader in the finance industry. Teach yourself.

The tools have advanced to a point where anyone can access huge amounts of leverage.

I was an engineer for a long time and I realized that all sides of this is a losing game. All I want is to be left alone and financially independent.

Big companies are just as bad, except they don’t pretend there is a chance you will get rich.
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What is your motivation posting this? Because it sounds like a great example of "whataboutism". Just because an evil is done a lot, and in different contexts doesn't make it not evil.
Is harder now to find someone willing to talk without slides, or is it harder for the speakers to put together a talk without slides?

> without [computer] slides

Are other types of slides allowed?
There are a couple problems with your post coming
from a 50+ year old.

* Statistics and probability.
* PHD,blog posts, > 2 PL and github in the wild = respectable technical resume.
* Badass is as badass does.

I work with CS PHDs who are great with math->algo mappings, pattern recognition and data structures that couldn't build a scalable system in fifteen years. Instead you'd end up with some cloud struck monstrosity. I worked with ex auto mechanics who were so quick and deft with hardware, components and diagnostics that they could run/build a
DC by themselves. Which is the badass?
Nailed it.

Dealerships make money on service. Which is related to the number of moving parts that can fail. Electric vehicles have very few of those.
"..201 free images".

are you planning to add more? Your competitor sites unsplash,pexel etc have many,many more.
Word. And it looks to me like both Facebook and every app dev that includes their SDK is liable.
>I really don't understand why more companies don't do that.

In part, because it doesn't really work for most currently employed people and may even be in violation of their employment contract. Where appropriate it can be a good approach, but it probably makes more sense for people who are already consultants/contractors exploring a full-time opportunity.
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Were you using it for documents in English?

Because I don't know about German specifically, but with some languages, Libre office is very buggy.
Interesting. But, having no idea about the future pricing, I'm very reluctant to really use it.
Kleptoplasty
With regards to the the findings, I think that'd be the wrong part of the GDPR. The issue is that applications are immediately sending user data to FB without authorization through the FB SDK - it's possible that many of the application developers don't actually have anymore information on you than indicated in the application and/or agreements.

You'll need to ask about their data processors I think.
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But that has nothing to do with age, and everything to do with poor skills-fit. Because someone fresh out of a CS program won't be all that much better. You admitted that there are cases where experience helps, but some team members don't have that experience.

Isolate for variables, don't compare apples to oranges. You are comparing older engineers without relevant experience to "younger people who were more experienced within that subject area." What about younger engineers who aren't experienced? I suspect their performance will be equally poor, if not worse.
Users are starting to demand that apps justify their permissions. My Roku app tried to update and then ask for location permissions claiming that the app now needed your GPS location to connect to your Roku. Their ratings tanked and the next update removed making it mandatory. I'm currently still on an older version because the update overall was a disaster and they've shown they're not trustworthy.
My experience on the hiring manager side suggests that when that happens, what's usually going on is that the experienced dev failed to meet the higher (level 3) bar but seemed like they'd be a solid individual contributor at level 2, and therefore received a SWE2/PR2/Foo2 offer.

In other words, "same [lower than they expected] bar, same [lower than they expected] salary" as someone 2-3 years in industry.
Seems like bigger risk is people not following methodologies properly in the first place.

At least that’s my experience
Keynote. It's really good at that too.
Oh absolutely - it was as simple as a fix can be, given (perfectly legitimate) quality control concerns, but it never would have happened if I hadn’t had a rare opportunity to actually observe how they work.
The critique of the propulsion scheme was laid out in the video. It was just framed in a way that tried to dodge the reality that this system cannot scale. For example, rather than presenting the thrust densities in a table for easy comparison, they were presented serially, so that the viewer might miss their relative scales. Quickly: What is the ratio of the thrust density of a jet engine to the thrust density of this ion propulsion scheme?[1]

Near the end, during the segue to the sponsorship at the end, he says, "This technology is in its infancy," alluding to his opening comparison to the Wright brothers. This is ridiculous. Not all weak or underpowered novel things are "in their infancy," awaiting further development into enabling technologies for our Glorious Future. This one, for example, has all the problems of battery energy density plus the problems of dragging, for example, tens of kilometers of wires through the atmosphere at passenger-jet speeds.

But, as I said at the beginning, that critique is contained in the video, just framed positively and obscured by weasel tactics. [2]

[1] Roughly 3300 to 1. An airliner using this scheme would need engines with a frontal area equal to 6600 high-bypass turbofan engines.

[2] Brought to you by Carl's Jr.
I have noticed the female SWE are in the minority in the Boston/Cambridge area, too.

At my first company in Boston, I was the first and only female programmer for a good year and it wasn't for lack of trying to hire more. I don't remember another female programmer on the web side (there were quite a few on the hardware side) but most of the team was over 30, with family, and was a good range of ages.

Now, I manage a team of five developers, only one of which is another woman. I'm 40 and she is 64. Then again, the youngest person on my team is 35 so we don't seem to have the problem of ageism in our company, thankfully. When we were looking for extra help, it was very difficult to even get people in to interview, let alone someone experienced enough. I'm hoping the job market for tech continues when I need a job again!
I'm with N. Taleb on the "suppressed volatility multiplies danger," principle.

(some here, goog: taleb suppressed volatility, http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/nassim-nicholas-t...)
The value of older, more experienced workers is the wisdom they've accrued over the years. There's a reason they don't jump into every new fad that comes along and stick with tools that they know work.
There is a limit on where kafka and cassandra are best solutions for your domain. Anyone who only knows SQL and windows server shouldn't be working on new technology
stacks.
Yes, that save time, if the configuration in question is currently on a running machine.
Demo of PlantUML text and diagrams: https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/demo_plantuml
Memory failure, they were asking tmux, not Vim.
Sushi is pretty undercooked.
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Nailed it with the last sentence.
in china, each track has their own designated waiting area. so you do know which track you need to be on and you can be as close as you need to be to catch the train, and yet people are not filling the platform before it's time to get on the train.
You can use adb commands to "disable" system apps FWIW, all you need is the "developer options" menu, to temporarily enable adb access from USB. This lets you use all the features of a "locked", stock "ROM" (payment services, DRM apps, better camera), and also works on "locked down" devices where you can't unlock the bootloader and install a different OS. Of course, it's only worthwhile if you trust the "ROM" vendor (LG in your case) and can isolate the problem to some specific app(s).
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Slightly OT, but hasn't this changed in recent years? I'm not in the industry, but I'd heard that things like EA_STL had gone out of fashion in favor of just using STL. If this is the case, are there any resources for what to be wary of in the STL?
You never outgrow impostor syndrome! Hang in there, friend. Your coworkers probably don't think you suck.
In addition to salary, you also have the chance of hitting the jackpot when the startup you work at goes public.
In my experience, the best policy is just to ask engineers where they are spinning their wheels. Engineers know best where to automate. Relying on top down automation decisions inspires ineffective automation.
https://balsamiq.com/

I use balsamiq all the time - helps me make diagrams with a sketchy feeling. It is designed to be used for the mockups only but I find myself using it for everything. You might have seen it used in (pretty famous?!) developer roadmap https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap or in some of my blog posts https://medium.com/tech-tajawal/rabbitmq-at-tajawal-c4eeccdd...
I’ll grant you this: unless you’re actually playing music to sold-out stadiums, “Rock star” is an insipid, meaningless phrase. I’m not trying to debate the definition. Likewise, I’m not interested in the technical qualifications to be a “communicator”. There are clearly few technical standards for fame.

In every other field of engineering, there are standards of knowledge and competency. Software is notable, in that not only are there no standards, but we actually see the glorification of ignorance of even basic knowledge.

There are lots of bad, popular github projects (particularly in the JS universe, where the bar for competency is already quite low) and having a popular project is not prima facie evidence of engineering skill (how many projects was the string-reversing NPM module breaking, again?) Which is to take nothing from the author; I don’t particularly care about his level of skill, nor am I saying his projects are bad. The argument is not about the author.

What I care about is when someone says “hey, I’m ignorant of the basics of the field in which I work, but it’s OK, because I work on a big, famous project.”, and people interpret that to mean that their ignorance is dandy, too. There are dozens of comments to this effect on this page (cf every comment that mentions “impostor syndrome”)

It’s OK to not know things. It’s OK to be a beginner. It’s not OK to excuse yourself from knowing things you really should know as a professional, because someone else got famous without that knowledge.
That sounds interesting.

I could do my maths/stats stuff with a whiteboard or flip-chart for occasional images.

How do the biologists or ecologists get on? Actual (large, paper) charts?
In a typical BigCo, much of the "soft service" processes are run by their own group, far removed from the reach of the automation implementers whether they're internal or external.

A top-down mandate to bring increased automation will require the implementers and the business unit to meet, agree on requirements, and exchange detailed information about the existing process which may or may not be formally codified. This process is frequently done without the involvement of frontline service workers, so the information being exchanged is done by people at least one step removed from the details of the work, and it just gets worse from there, like a meeting-filled, high-stakes variant of the telephone whispers game.

The opposite case is where a business unit develops their own highly computerized solution, but the process, when discovered, is unacceptable to the BigCo. The subject matter expert can seldom contribute technical artifacts into the sanctioned rewrite, so the rewrite becomes an imperfect facsimile, and the subsequent migration will cause issues.

In both cases, much of the conflict comes from the users of the software not being contributors to the software, in a broad sense of that word. And, service unit employees are often already tiered between process administrators and task executors with no obvious path of advancement between them, such that the frontline workers can be automated out of a job entirely. On top of the organizational barriers, this creates a structural disincentive against contributing to a solution.
Make it more stable.

Everybody in my class started with Visio, they almost all went to alternatives due to unreliability. Crashes with no autosave files happened way too often.
Counter-anecdotes: in Chicago (e.g., UP-N), Boston (e.g., Fitchburg), and much of Europe (e.g., many major cities in Germany), the commuter rail systems do take you out into very affordable areas.
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Yeah I only hear that from 20 somethings who extrapolate their 401k and salary from past 3-4 years of good gains. It's all they've known.

I used to think that way, but after the two big downturns in 2001 and 2008 I am sadly a lot more realistic now..
There's a balance though. A huge bureaucracy to stop all fraud is expensive and cumbersome. There's going to be an acceptable level of fraud in order to keep the administration costs of the system in check.

Other countries have figured this out. The US could use the experience of our allies that already have systems that are working to design a system for us.
I hope military agencies are already familiar with malware!
No. PayPal, the money transfer service, was created before the merger. X.com was an online bank.

PayPal clearly existed by October 1999: https://web.archive.org/web/19991013140707/http://paypal.com...

Your web page shows the merger was in March 2000. Musk was pushed out by October 2000.
The future of service mesh
"How to make a package manager cry" - lol.

In all seriousness, the links you provided outline valid (and annoying) issues with package managers, but none of them apply to bake. First of all, bake does not rely on an online package repository. As long as you have access to git, or have local copies of your git repositories, you're good. You'll never lose productivity because your internet connection went down (well- at least not because of bake).

Secondly, the bake package manager does not mandate how you install your projects. This is perhaps the point of greatest confusion. Bake is a package manager for developers, and it provides a nice & seamless workflow for integrating remote git dependencies into your local workflow. How you package and distribute your projects is entirely up to you.

Also, bake has been used to support an ecosystem of 150+ projects, across multiple teams, across multiple organizations, on multiple platforms before it was forked off. In these cases, organizations used their own preferred tools for deployment, but got a good productivity boost from using bake in development.
Not when adjusted for spending. But the numbers here are just a standin for your personal politics. That is not helpful or constructive either.
Much needed effort, thanks. How do you see the ongoing relationship between the book and multi-contributor website? How did that influence the selection of an Apache 2 (intended for code) vs CC-BY (intended for content) license?
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That's still a huge step down from the single configuration dialog we used in Windows 95. And it's slower.
That avoids the question. What did he do at PayPal? As far as I can tell he deserves no credit for his success.
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why aren't you taking a triptan?
Given that the desired integral will be a sixth order polynomial, it's not even that "we can't find the intergral" (we can), it's that there is no closed form solution once we've found it.
Ask HN: How do I look for an experienced mentor for doing a startup venture?
I recently quit my job at Google to pursue something I've wanted to do for many years. After 2-3 months of messing around with ideas and code + reading up a lot, I've come to the somewhat painful realization that building a product and writing code is very different from creating a sustainable business. While I'm determined to do what it will take, I think that alone won't compensate for product fit/business/growth related mistakes where I have little experience.

I also feel doing this without a good experienced mentor will cost me 10 times more effort and pain but I'm not sure where to start. Has anyone done this before and have any tips how should I go about this? Ideally this would be a fruitful relationship for both where the mentor can see their mentorship making an active difference for a nascent venture and experience some joy in its success.
Here's an article that may contribute to your decision: Open Source (Almost) Everything.

http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/11/22/open-source-everyth...
I'm 34, left my 7 years relation two years ago, am gay and never thought I could have kids and am not planning on having kids any time soon. This kind of thinking about that the traits that one develops with age and experience only come about with raising a family kind of worries me, I have a pretty good idea on what I'm missing on since absolutely all my good friends from university and most of my close friends from my past two gigs are raising kids. I just don't think I'm in te proper situation to do it. I also think I can manage time and prioritize better because life did throw stuff at me, just not marriage and children.

Also, if I feel like it, I can work 80 hour weeks. I just need to rest after doing it and can't sustain it for too long. I don't know if I can't sustain it for too long "because of age", or if because of experience I do now realize I'm doing everything wrong because of burnout, and when I was young I just powered through doing wrong shit when I was stressed out or sleep deprived and didn't asses I was doing wrong shit.
Except you should avoid aspirin for kids probably:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/reyes-syndrom...
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Clearly, people like reading about it (it's also really easy to miss that there's a surprisingly high number of Bezier-related posts getting on the front page year round. They usually get there and then fall off again in 8-12 hours =)
There's always F-Droid (+ a custom repo if you're unable to FOSSify your app) or Amazon's app store. Those may or may not be "reasonable" for everyone (in particular since they're not typically preinstalled on phones), but it's a start.
It's not being in Poland that helps, it's being outside the US that matters. USA is the only country I know where you can successfully run small companies into the ground just by suing them (for pretty much anything, but patents are a good vehicle for this). The legal system is such that small companies are at a distinct disadvantage (because of complex precedent-based law and legal fees).
This is a critique of shared source licenses that are forks of open source ones (like BSD), but with no-compete clauses attached, which as the author argues, hurt the OSS ecosystem and don’t serve their intended purpose.

I happen to agree very much with the article.

The Open Source and Free Software ecosystems are under attack by companies that want to eat their cake and have it too. There’s never been a stronger need for defending their definitions as pushed forward by OSI and the FSF respectively.
> That does not mean that it doesn't happen.

Never said it doesn’t happen, I know it does. I simply stated it’s a very flawed approach and gave one example of why.
Cool. Does it include your newly designed spline? https://raphlinus.github.io/curves/2018/12/21/new-spline.htm...
So by that argument if wind and solar where so great it wouldn't only be supplying around 1.5% of our energy and growing much more rapidly than it does.

You can't both have your cake and eat it.

The difference is that we KNOW that nuclear can deliver way more energy per m2 than wind and solar can. We know how to get it to work and we know that the primary cost of nuclear is political NOT technical completely opposite wind and solar which have technical issues to provide as much as nuclear or coal or oil can.
If you had used WSLGit (https://github.com/andy-5/wslgit), you could use Cyg-Git (https://github.com/nukata/cyg-git) instead. It provides a "Git for Windows" virtually for Go and VSCode. You only need Cygwin and its packages, including Cygwin's git.
GP isn't saying that VLC is unsafe, but rather that C (which VLC is written in) tends to be unsafe. Seeing as MPV is also written in C, it's absolutely the same in that regard.
> It creates a non-digital interaction as part of the auth flow.

Well, that's not correct. You may have an analogical sensor somewhere to collect the data, but all the data, communication and storage is still digital. You can always bypass the data collection.
Or, perhaps our USDA rules need an overhaul to allow sales of uncured bacon? Seems the easier solution. Shorter shelf life, but its not like bacon sits around uncooked that often. I used to get it from my local farm, but their new butcher is hamstrung by regulation, and I have to settle for briney salt-cured bacon.
No limits, otherwise what's the point?

All you need to do is give the members a way to control what they see, that's the most important aspect.

If you get someone uploading actually illegal stuff (cp etc) you just shadow ban them so only they can see their posts or people visiting the post directly can see it so they've no idea they're banned and report them to the authorities.

Disclosure: I run a network of extremely successful uncensored social networks. Never had problems with payment processors or anything like that, because unlike some other places cough gab cough we don't make waves or cause trouble.
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You could be right. The security team and some of the kernel developers are top notch though.
Asking for a "full stack son of a bitch" would be a bit too direct.
What is TAMR?