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I'm not damning his character. Or even questioning his character.

Just saying, from the thumbnail description given of his work habits - you couldn't quite call him an "engineer".
As the other comment mentions, the embryos are, but also, you can get amelanistic zebrafish.

This might be an interesting addition. You can't usually just buy zebrafish from Petco and use them for research. There are standards in animal facilities that determine whether your fish must be "specific pathogen free" or various other levels, and so you have to generally buy them from one of a few sources if you can't bum some from a beneficent lab. When we went to purchase embryos to set up a zebrafish colony (at something like $400 for 2 females and 1 male), the facility in Europe had suffered a fire that required them to stop production for 4-6 months.
Thanks softawre, what triggered me is the sensationalist title and general bashing of monorepo's (which a large percentage of impressionable readers will walk away from this article thinking, ie: that monorepo's are only for dummies and you're doing it wrong if you're not using a polyrepo). A less inflammatory title more along the lines of "Having trouble scaling development of a single codebase amongst 100's of developers? Consider a polyrepo". This argument comes up in developer shops almost as much as emacs vs vi, tabs or spaces, etc.

When you have 100+ developers on a project, managing inbound commits/merges/etc will become tedious if they're all committing/merging into one effective codebase.

IMHO, It depends on the project, the team makeup, the codebase's runtime footprint, etc whether or not/or when it makes sense to start breaking it up into smaller fragments, or on the other hand, vacuuming up the fragments into a monorepo.

I did enjoy reading Steve Fink's from Mozilla's comment (it's the top response on the OP's medium article) and counter arguments about monorepos vs polyrepos in that ecosystem (also clearly north of 100 developers). It's easy to miss if you don't expand the medium comment section, but very much worth reading.
I always refer back to PEP 20 when thinking about these issues (and many things in life actually):

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/

"Explicit is better than implicit."
Agreed. I wish we could somehow all work together to fix these things. And as a bonus, if corporations actually paid taxes in a more straightforward way, there would be less confusion and deception in political arguments about corporate tax rates.
It's also still a great read and has held up well, imho.
They got pretty nice incentives from the city to locate there, if I remember correctly.
definitely this. i can already afford a house, but getting the down payment saved up without crippling my social life (which is more important to me) is difficult (not impossible, though) b/c of student loans.
2/3rds is required for a full 51%-style attack in PoS.

https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQs#wh...

There's a lot of misinformation regarding PoS. Vlad Zamfir has spoken a lot on cartel attacks and how they're mitigated, but the biggest, and I mean bigger than biggest, argument against all of these attacks is that it's always detectable by honest nodes shy of 2/3rds attack and it defaces the value of the coin itself to attack at that volume.
If they could find the money within nyc property tax base they would be able to fund without the state government.

Many would say Albany is controlled by nyc interests and why should citizens in cities like Buffalo in western ny fund nyc projects.
If your friends are close to you, they shouldn't be annoyed that you're texting them. Wanting to spend time with your friends is a good thing, and if they're legitimately annoyed, make certain you're communicating that you value the time that you get to spend with them (this is especially key if your time is sparse.)
That’s totally reasonable. The 100k quote was for inside a city, where prices are a bit more but still reasonable. But once you get into the burbs it’s more about finding a good neighborhood than an affordable price.

Source: Grew up and lived in Indiana, now live in SF.
I think the implication is clearly that there existed a government survalence dragnet and that the source was well placed enough to have unfettered access to it.

However, it strikes me that there are a number of other possibilities: perhaps his own computer had been specifically compromised; maybe they targeted his hotel room or WiFi network; or, one which I find really compelling, it was simply a well timed ruse intended to bolster the legitimacy of whatever information the source was sharing.
being an asshole doesn't make you less of an engineer.

The issue wasn't that he was an "asshole"; but that he was undisciplined.
I lived in the South Bay for ~5 years while I was going to university there. I liked it, but also hated it.

People everywhere, bad drivers, lots of arrogance etc, but now looking back there many great moments that I kind of miss.

One of them is that I loved travelling and exploring in the US. There is just always something to do. Also you meet nice people almost everywhere. So it was quite easy to make friends instantly.

If the visa situation wasn't so bad, I think I'd go back now that I took a break from the Bay Area Craziness.

To me living in Europe makes more sense (more stable and secure), but life in the US is somehow more fun. That is until you run out of money (be it because of medical bills or because you got sued...)
You joke, but I work in a pharmaceutical company, and we have a program specifically for employees to donate blood for research purposes. It's complicated so that the donors and researchers are blinded to where the blood comes from and who it goes to.
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There's a world of difference between taking a tax deduction and actively setting up shell corporations to dodge taxes

Google could not pay taxes by giving their employees raises or bonuses, invest in infrastructure, donate it to charity, etc.Instead they stash it in the Caribbean.

I wouldn't care but their executives actively push a political agenda not inline with their actions which makes them rampaging hypocrites and thus open for criticism
It's worth pointing out that a significant number of people who live in the bronx and queens do take metro north and LIRR respectively.
Most people are chronically dehydrated all their lives. I've found, at least for lips, the urge to reach for chapstick frequently means I should be reaching for a water bottle instead. (Setting aside extreme conditions like subzero skiing)
> simply by generating a lot of demand for housing.

Oh for fucks sake. You realize this is what happens when a city becomes successful right?

If you want to blame someone, its the NIMBYs: scuttling housing projects that would have eased the bubble and helped house a lot more people for reasonable prices, while benefiting from the economic successes of the companies and people moving in.
> It follows that most of the articles that appear opposed to powerful interests are a) inconsequential, or b) used as a distraction, helping to create the impression that the paper is anything but a powerful conservative force.

It could also be taking on a rival powerful establishment interests, like in Democrats vs Republican type bickering.

Chomsky in his famous Andrew Marr interview addressed Marr's example of Watergate scandal as one part of the establishment defending itself against another part of the establishment, thus allowing the story to be broken. He compared Watergate, which everybody knows about, to a much bigger scandal of the same time, COINTELPRO, which relatively few people have even heard about.

The entire interview is worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjENnyQupow
If you want the really nice Victorians go West to Pac Heights and near Haight.
> ETA: Getting your employer to pay your company instead of you would be tax fraud.

Isn't that what people do if they are contracting?
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Probably so, but nobody else with his reach was covering this. Seems kind of important to me!
Taking 5yr old to office. How do I engage him?
My son has no school and baby sitter gave at last minute. I have to take my kid to office on sf bay area. I took few of his school and puzzle books. How do I make sure he is engaged for 5 hrs.

I have laptop with me, but dont want him to see to many videos.

What websites will get his creative juices flowing ?
By whose standard? I reckon not actively avoiding taxes is quite high up in most peoples list. Proclaiming the virtues of civic duty while still championing corporate tax avoidance rings very superficial to me at least.
"...if we want computers to do the things brains can do..."

That's my point though. I don't want computers to do what my brain does, mainly because I have no idea what my brain does, nor does anyone. Sure, some people think we do, but we don't.

It also seems silly to try to engineer something that we know may fail (by design), on the probability that it may haphazardly produce better results (even if this is most of the time). That may be useful for things like search results, where the outcome is not critically important.

Please excuse the example, but I would be happier passing away in an aircraft accident knowing it was because although the system was designed not to fail, we did our best in terms of understanding the systems in place. That would be my definition of "sh&t happens".

If I passed away because the aircraft "AI" took an untested path of execution (there are too many to verify, unlike most regular "dumb" software), I would be less happy.

Maybe there is a balance, Eg verifiable software for the important stuff, AI fluffery for the less so. But in that case, we should not get carried away (eg. self driving cars). Remember, planes could fly themselves completely for a long time, and we still have 2 pilots for a reason.

Computers are a human's tool, not replacement.
Apple fought rich browser standards in favour of app store which provides an interface for installing applications as easy as web browsing and won that battle.

And they will continue to win that battle because they provide discoverability, monitization, hosting, and full device access and performance. The web alone can't compete against that.
The tens of millions of tourists probably don't, though.

(Now, sales and hotel taxes, on the other hand...)
brains don't think, minds do.
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Kinda ironic that the tech industry is forced to bring people together at this place to do... something.

Remote work, distributed working, all these ideas are what could lead a worldwide trend to distribute work, people, resources more efficiently.

Also while not destroying history (old buildings/neighborhoods that are worth preserving) and nature (parks, trees, etc.).
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Thanks. I should have clarified we’ll remain located in our home countries, working remotely.
SF’s boom in home building to slow in 2019
Coach went downmarket, IMO
It's a bit more nuanced, it's not perpetually sunny but it does tend to be sunny during peak solar times.
> “On the way I noticed that the billboards next to the highways were directly targetting developers.”

Funny, this was the first thing I also noticed about the Bay Area when I moved out here years ago: the billboards. Where I came from (Deep South, Florida panhandle), all the billboards said things like “Homeschoolers for Jesus” and “Remember not to shake your baby,” and when I landed in SFO I was greeted by billboards for Portal 2, some Java framework, and the unbiquitous iPhone billboards. Definitely felt more in my element here!
Do you know why that is? Mac has apparently supported this for years now: http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/09/set-a-mac-mouse-to-be-left-ha...
Hi, thanks! From the description at https://www.balena.io/fin/, it looks like I'd be spending ~$170 instead of ~$35 to get:

- Ability to run on 6V to 24V power
- Low-power coprocessor
- Battery-powered real-time clock

The rest of the interfaces all look pretty much the same, except that the Fin loses two USB ports and the headphone jack.

Given that my plan is to run off of 5V USB power and I don't intend to write special software for the coprocessor, can you help me understand whether there might still be good reasons to use a Fin?
It's more or less the only factor. I don't blame city council for not foreseeing this after the Dotcom bubble. They would have to have built a city wall to keep low skill labor out to protect the low wage workers in the city from a never ending stream of dreamers who don't understand they will not make it in the long run working in restaurants, stores, car maintenance or what ever.

Internet money is displacing ordinary people, i.e. children of house owning residents who can't land a well paid job, and people in rental units.

If you have a family you can't expect all children to get well paid jobs, you can't expect your parents to be around being good grandparents after they retire and if you are born in the area you can't expect your childhood/teen/20s friends to stay around for the same reason - not everyone can get high paying jobs.

I mean, it's not a nice community if the people you grow up with have to move because they can't stay competitive enough.

When I worked in Palo Alto (as a high paid tech worker displacing old folks ...), I didn't think about this at all. It was first afterwards I realized that ordinary people were missing and there were very few children over all.
Definitely one of the worst parts, although I think some corners of the Tenderloin are worse.

My office is also in that area (6th and Market), I would argue it's even worse there compared to Twitter. However, it has been getting better in the last year or so, and that trend is likely going to hold up. For example, the city is investing a lot of resources and capital to make it better: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-ge...

Having said that, I rarely feel unsafe walking around that area.
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I agree w/ other commenters that using a formatter like Prettier is a good idea. But to answer your question, single quotes don't require use of the Shift key so are a better choice for DX / ergonomics. RSIs are no joke.
> This is literally the past 15 years of Google.

Other than for Gmail/Chrome[OS]/Android/Photos/Youtube/Music/Maps, I totally agree.
I agree that nuance and discussion about style is incredibly important because, as you aptly point out, we're writing in a language used for communication. That being said, since we've introduced Prettier, I haven't encountered any changes it's made to code that are anything more than trivial formatting/purely-stylistic changes.

I think readability and expressiveness are more about larger scale patterns in code writing (writing self-documenting code with descriptive variable and function names, writing modular code, etc). These are things that should be continuously discussed and improved upon for clarity and alignment. The really granular formatting changes that Prettier chiefly concerns itself with don't seem to be a concern in this case. If you could point me at a more specific case where you think Prettier mucks things up I'd love to see more of what you're talking about.
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Could you elaborate on this? Personally, I like the idea of Haskell about as much as I like the idea of Clojure, but Haskell has never quite clicked for me.

I don't think it's necessarily readability holding me back from Haskell, but I do find Clojure to be highly readable which really helped me get up to speed with it quickly. I'm curious what you find more readable about Haskell.
I agree with this point. Earlier today I made a similar comment regarding the lack of political strength among software developers, for such a well paid (relative to most Americans) trade, it's hard to name a powerful special interest group for developers.

There are lots of theories regarding personality types that lead to speculation of why this is the case, but I'd really like to see some research that digs into this. Labor by developers is becoming more and more valuable, with this you expect more political strength.. but it does not seem to be happening.
Seconding factorio: it is minecraft for engineers.
It's 45 views across a total of 50 degrees, that's 25 degrees off-center left and right. And there's only a single vertical angle. What gets displayed in those views is 100% implementation-dependent. There's no standard for how "deep" the objects should look, and there's no standard for the vertical angle either. So whether it will look good on a wall is content-dependent. I suspect that most content being made specifically for the Looking Glass will have a downward viewing angle in mind, as would be natural for having the device on a desk in front of you.
> Google Netherlands Holdings BV paid 3.4 million euros in taxes in the Netherlands in 2017, the documents showed, on a gross profit of 13.6 million euros

The Netherlands is an economy about the size of California, the reason Google only makes 13.6 million here is that they make the subsidiary pay a lot of royalties to a Bermuda Google entity, who probably bought these rights internally from the Google Corp for a price that was way too low. They can price these royalties anything they want, so it will always be an amount that leaves a maginal profit.

> This is legal.

Of course they say that, but it depends on many things, such as the fairness of their internal pricing. If those prices are not fair, the arrangement may not be legal.
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4k content still has not been cracked so DRM seems to be working this generation.
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I haven't seen a pure PoS chain and I'm pretty heavy in the space. I HAVE seen a LOT of dPoS chains, which isn't the same.
> their primary purchasers dont have the money for more.

There's some of that, but I think it's more just gamer entitlement. Any company that prices a game above $60 will be crucified on Reddit, YouTube, and the gaming media, because games are "supposed to" cost $60 and anything more than that is "greedy".

Then the same people will say they don't understand why everything has microtransactions now.

Gamers got EA voted "worst company in America" two years running over companies that actually, literally killed people.
There's all kinds of tech in Portland. Source? Me, who travels to tech events in Portland frequently.
It sounds like some software war room meetings. Everything is oversubscribed and if you have to take one thing down for maintenance (even a redundant thing) turns into the apocalypse.

One system starts emitting 50% more traffic and everything else falls over because everything is running at 80% of capacity all the time.

We're trying to combine our multi-region and failover efforts and I just know it'll take about a week for us to have all data centers running at more than 1/n of capacity. And then instead of having no war room when one data center goes offline we'll have one when anything hiccups.
it's not so much that coding is easy; it's more that coding is easier than obtaining the soft skills that are often present amongst senior engineers
Even though these numbers are very anecdotal. The amount of money spent on a game vs the number of hours played shows that extra value could be extracted from the customer.

Netflix/Spotify model comes to mind. The collective pool of subscriptions fund creation of AAA titles just like the EA pass.
Yes, I supposed if compared to the fifth largest city in the world, San Francisco isn't a gigantic, sprawling metropolis.

Come on.
Look, I'm not asking electrons to think outright; but reading a bit of the schematic would be nice.
The kind of person who moves from the mid west and then feels at home in is not representative of the average midwesterner. The cultural values are very different and that's before you even get into politics.
Just say it's "primarily for production". Works every time.
This is also the problem that eBay faced in the 90s. It mostly solves it with social mechanisms like reputation scores and in general it does a pretty good job. I think we'll see a lot more solutions like that in the future.
This is amazing, thanks for sharing! do you know what year are these videos from? I couldn't find any reference.
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Jenkins, LibreOffice, MariaDB (and others) are doing just fine without Oracle.
Last time I was in SF I went on one of the City Guides walking tours that focused on Victorians. I'm pretty sure it was Pacific Heights area--certainly over that way.