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I love the mixture of pentatonic, modal, tonal, and atonal in the works of Debussy. He toes the line of modernity with wit, charm, and absolute beauty. For wit, check out Gradus ad Parnassum, a super bouncy piece in a beginner-friendly key. For charm, go with Arabesque No 1. Absolute beauty lies in store in Claire de Lune, yes, but also in The Sunken Cathedral, in the string quartet, and in the vocal music. He has astonishing creativity, look at his Preludes, his opera, or his Afternoon of a Faun for that, wow, sheer creativity.

Debussy (or perhaps Ravel) may be the one composer who most successfully commanded the widest range of tonal devices, before the modernists like Stravinsky and Schoenberg pushed tonality to its breaking point/broke it. Debussy was not the only innovator, as we saw innovation and creativity from Bach to Mozart, Debussy to Chopin, however I'd argue Debussy was the true bridge into modernity.

Debussy harmonic analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbjWgfNoO2U
OP provided a direct link to a random image on a wordpress blog with no context whatsoever...
You're going to have big companies, anyway, so why not make them more productive? My proposal includes variable pay, so you can enjoy the fruits of your labor more than you can in today's big companies like Microsoft and Google.
What if the random stranger is telling you about something you do want, but didn't know you wanted?
> The man's not even white, IIRC.

He seems to think he is, since part of his criticism of the Alt-Right was that they weren't sufficiently nice to him personally, violating the maxim that “White people are meant to be polite and respectful to one another” (he later claimed this was a criticism of them violating their own standards, but whoever the standard is attributed to his invocation of it only makes sense if he believes he is White.)

> "Xenophobic" is the label used by the far left to tar anyone who believes in stricter border policies.

That may be how some subset of the far left uses it, but it is nevertheless a word with actual meaning, that applies to Sargon, and I'm not a member of the far left.

> in years past, he would just have been called center-left.

Which years past? Maybe the 19th Century. Not anytime in living memory.
Well, I know of a couple that lost the chance of participating in some government specs because they had such sites and were hard to reach.

"Casually interested" can mean a lot of things, all look the same to the seller.
Holy crap you just made me feel completely ancient. I had never made that realization before.

Is this how my parents felt in the 80s?
I would be keen to see the list on both storage and distributed systems.

For compilers the dragon book has fallen out of favor (especially as a first compiler book/source). Modern Compiler in ML (don't touch the Java or C versions) and Engineering a Compiler tend to be the goto books now.
My experience with code reviews is that they always became adversarial. I tried to implement code reviews in my group many times and it didn't provide a lot of value.

We finally did it by using GitLab and requiring that every merge request to master must be reviewed by two team members. This provided code review on every piece of code instead of only on select pieces. GitLab allows us to enforce it easily, but the process can be done anywhere.

The nit-picky code reviewer gets overwhelmed defending his point of view and starts being a little more selective. The lazy programmer gets overwhelmed with constant changes and actually starts paying more attention. Somewhere along the way it has actually balanced out.

Discussions have allowed us to identify poor practices, new techniques, and implement some standards.
Heh, a hedge fund I worked at didn't even let you back to your desk. You were immediately escorted out by security. "Your personal effects at your desk will be mailed to you." Suppose there were exceptions to say grab keys, wallet or a purse, but you weren't packing up everything.
Romantic, business and employment relationships aren't the same thing. At all. Do you collect resumes from your dates?
You're lost in your own analogy. Big companies are going to exist, anyway, so can we make them more productive?
They most certainly do not "handle it just fine". They are highly scammable, they know it, and it's "solved" my moving as much of the burden and repercussions onto the consumer as possible.

I've had my identity stolen, and both my wife and I have been mistaken for somebody else. There ARE way to move past this condition (inline with Google Pay, apparently), but it's just done via trust. Or apathy. Or acceptable risk. Or some combination thereof. It never truly goes away.
Terrific backgrounder. At some point everyone must wrestle with Hobbes' "state of nature". The counterpoints from modern neuroscience seem to suggest a hard-wiring in the brain for altruism. As well as a blurring of the hard boundaries between emotion, reason and memory than Hume, Kant or Hobbes would have imagined possible ;)

An Amygdala-Hippocampus Subnetwork that Encodes Variation in Human Mood

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(18)31313-8
I actually like what Musk has done, technology wise, but if this management style doesn't point to him possibly being on the spectrum, I'm not sure what will.
I'm pretty sure that one is from Neville Chamberlain, actually.
And I am sure dig was not worried about Reddit... and MySpace was not worried about Facebook, and AltaVista was not worried about Google....

The idea that Reddit, Twitter and Patreon can not be supplanted show an ignorance of history
> The guy spends considerable time and effort criticizing and debating the Alt Right, neo nazis, and white nationalists.

He criticizes the Alt-Right and White Nationalists in part by calling them n * * * ers, just so it's clear for readers.
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"SpaceX is offering a minimum of eight weeks’ pay and other benefits to laid-off workers, according to Shotwell’s email. The company will also provide assistance with career coaching, resume help and job searches." - They are supporting them through it. I think this is as bad as any other way of lay off. Those 1:1s are farcical anyway. Only thing that could be better is to just send the mail only to the laid off employees.
Maybe it means that they are coming up with something else new? It's their right to stop producing something or kill ("sunset") whatever product, but it doesn't make it any less crappy.
IMHO, If I could guess announcing it all employees tells that you all are expendable. If you are doing that is not important for the company. You could be sent home forever. Gives a sense to everyone to pull up their shocks. Two days to think about your short commings
Creating a hazard for pedestrians is sufficient grounds for impoundment. The fact that other hazards also exist doesn't change that.

Second, the issue of whether the impoundment is justified is really quite irrelevant to the issue of whether the conversion of a bike legally purchased from the impound lot is legal - which is the subject of the EFF note. That bike is the purchaser's property, to do with as they choose, and people who generally treat ownership as a sacrament would be hypocrites if they started making exceptions whenever it suited them.

Lastly, even aside from both of those issues, the attempted invocation of DMCA is clearly bogus. It's a horrible law generally, but still explicitly precludes the kind of abuse they were attempting. For them to go after the very person who had anticipated their behavior and worked to have those provisions added is ... well, not bright. It's a very stupid hill to die on, but if they and their fans want to then I'm glad to see them held up to ridicule.
i've done a lot of contract work for spacex. imo i think part of the reason they work so much is because they have no formal methods group. everyone seems to solve similar problems in slightly different ways instead of having a vetted and documented 'right' way to approach certain things. i've literally been paid to write code that does the same thing for different groups in slightly different ways. having done a lot of aerospace contracting, this is atypical from what i've seen elsewhere. my point is that if they formed a methods group to formalize and standardize across the entire org they might be fine with a 10% cut if they're not duplicating efforts all over the place.
Ok, and how does the soft cap change the argument?
I still wouldn't be happy but yes, I would be happier. A resident homeowner/renter has far more right to utilize the public property in front of their residence than some [multi-]national corporation, just like residents have the right to vote for their representatives and the businesses don't.

I tolerate far worse externalities from my neighbors because they're my neighbors and I want to minimize pointless conflict for their emotional benefit as well as mine. Business that create externalities in my neighborhood for the sake of corporate profit, on the other hand, can either pay me and my neighbors in cash to deal with the externalities (with a decent profit margin for our time and effort) or they can go f* themselves.
Do we know that is necessary? Why would it take all weekend for 700 emails to be delivered? Why not send an email to all the remaining employees to reassure them they are not being fired? That may have happened, we don't know.
Coinbase is already blocking users for content reasons, so it may be hard to get your bitcoin through the exchange if others follow suit.
What software stack do you intend to run on the phone?
Programmers who can code well, but can't handle paper tests?
Ah, I live on a small island in the Pacific and just got back from Thailand. Having Google Fi has been an absolute game changer.

Would having a back-up payment method set have solved something like this?
The reason for the contradictory findings is that tax rates are one of what, hundreds or thousands of variables to economic output?

It shouldn’t be surprising that a change in tax rate can be overpowered by other factors.
> the keys leave imprints on the monitor after the lid has been closed

Same with my Late 2013 MacBook Pro.

> the keyboard with it's rickety keys

I haven't used the XPS keyboards extensively but they seem to get good reviews and in my limited experience, I definitely prefer them to the new MacBook keyboards (which I've used quite a bit).

> I eat tramadol just to handle the back-pain from carrying it around in my rucksack

The XPS 13 is actually lighter than the MacBook Pro 13 and the new MacBook Air. The XPS 15 is half a pound heavier than the MacBook Pro 15, which should be barely noticeable when carried in a backpack. I am not quite following.
>"If they'd used stack-ranking at Los Alamos, hell, Oppenheimer would probably have had to fire Feynman!"

This seems pretty accurate to me, just imagine what would have happened if the top 10 people in the organization were put on the most important team, and then stack day rolled around...
> Most of us academics are in quite agreement over it's harm

Could you provide context for your academic credentials? And as I pointed out before, what damage are we talking about when compared to the literal can of sugar water the BPA riddled can is holding?
1. Prepare the e-mails in advance for each employee that

2. Schedule the "Town Hall" meeting for an important announcement at 4pm on Friday

3. Start the meeting by talking about the company, vision, challenges, recent wins, etc. [Insert a positive announcement here]

4. Tell everyone at 4:20pm that the company will be laying off 10% of the workforce, explain why, etc.

5. At 4:25pm, as you prepare to wrap up the town hall meeting, tell everyone that they will receive an e-mail either letting them know they will be laid off or that they will remain with the company. Thank everyone for their hard work for the company.

6. [Insert another brief, unrelated positive announcement about the company].

7. At 4:31pm, as people walk out the door, have IT send all of the e-mails at the exact same time to everyone who's being laid off. Review the list of employees compulsively beforehand to ensure no mistakes are being made.

8. Together with step 7 send another e-mail to everyone who remains with the company ensuring them they are not being laid off.
The logistics of laying off 6000 people makes it very difficult to hold one on ones. Assuming 30 minutes per person, 8 hours in a day to hold meetings and 5 day work week, that's 75 person-weeks (!) just to hold one on ones.

On top of that, there are security concerns with hanging onto employees and letting them have access to company property during a time that they know they will be fired. Especially for a company that performs services for top secret government projects.

The easiest (though you won't catch me arguing that it's the best) way is to hold a staff meeting, and then let corp IT churn through the 6000 person list over the weekend and remove access.
Wow... Sargon is alt-right now. I guess the meme about everyone not being on the extreme authoritarian left being "alt-right" is actually true.

Sargon is Center Libertarian, pretty far from the alt-right which are more accurately labeled Authoritarian Right
I disagree. What would be more cruel is to keep people guessing for weeks, or to do several smaller layoffs. That's how it's usually done, and it utterly decimates the morale, and causes the best people to leave.

The best way to do a layoff is to cut once, cut deep, and do it quickly. And of course to not be an asshole and offer severance compensation to folks who were laid off.
Or just pay Fastmail $30 a year for such an important 21st century utility such that e-mail is.

I don't use gmail for anything else except throwaway accounts. Who wants to run an SMTP server.
I use both but they are very limited unless you pay them.

As mentioned by jurgenwerk they both have their own version of "DA" pretty much only Google knows your "DA" they are just making an educated guess based on backlinks and other factors.

I found two sites that offer the same info for free. websiteseochecker.com's "Domain Authority Checker - DA checker - Check domain authority" and smallseotools.com's "DOMAIN AUTHORITY CHECKER."
Elon Musk is sticking to the Roman definition of decimation
If people were leaving cars on sidewalks and beaches I could see similar levels of outrage.
I think we need to start treating extreme obesity as an addiction. No one in their right mind tells an alcoholic to "just moderate yourself". I think the decisions of food need to be taken out of the hands of the obese. Eat what you're allotted, we promise its enough, and nothing else.

I recommend people lose weight via fasting until they're "normal" weight. Best done with doctor's supervision, but it basically boils down to eat nothing, drink only 0 calorie drinks and take a daily dose of multivitamins and get some sodium + potassium.

Barbieri took vitamins on various occasions throughout the
fast, including potassium and sodium supplements.

He was allowed to drink coffee, tea, and sparkling water,
all of which are naturally calorie-free. He said there was
the occasional time that he'd have a touch of sugar or milk
in tea, especially in his final few weeks of fasting.

At the end of his ordeal, Barbieri tipped the scales at 180
pounds. Five years later, he'd still kept almost all the
weight he'd lost off, weighing in at 196 (89 kg).

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-true-story-of-a-man-who-sur...
Presumably that 2% growth is annualized.
Ofcourse XKCD has it's own category for you to read:

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Comics_t...
They're laying off 10% of 6,000 employees. Not everyone.
Is it really 'dishonest tarring' to point out how silly it is to point out how he criticizes the Alt-Right and White Nationalists, when the method he uses to criticize them is to tell them they act like n * * * ers?
That would be a horrible e-mail to get caught in a spam filter.
Because firing is a much different experience for employees than being hired? That should be obvious.

Having gone through many layoffs, there is no way to do it where it doesn’t suck for everyone involved (those that stay or go).

However, doing it in a way that show management understands the gravity of the situation goes really far in reducing how unpleasant the experience is.
It makes sense for raspberry pi go fully open and move away from the properitary arm architecture.
It's also a good way to get a disgruntled worker who still has system privileges or physical access to cause all kinds of havoc. Not worth the risk, even if you think it's more humane.
I believe Paypal and other Processors discontinued their ability to process CreditCards
Would you please post a few links to the news stories and articles you mention? I would very much like to read them.
Need a fully open source GPU arhchitecture...
You can still tell everyone immediately at the end of the day. Or just send the email on the weekend. You don't have to say you're going to do it first and keep everyone worried.
From the reddit comment there's no indication they said when they will be sending the email.

It would have been far more practical to quietly go into each department "Jane, Jack come with us we're putting together a team" "Sally, Quan come with us we're putting together a team" take them all to an area "we're very sorry but we have to lay you off, we have counselors that we can refer to you if you need to talk to someone. We've also got some headhunters we can recommend. It's not personal, we just have to cut costs, you'll find that your company accounts were deactivated at the start of this meeting. We will be more than happy to ask your supervisors to write you letters of recommendation if you'd like, just put on this form where you'd like them sent for your records. Please think of anything that you are in the middle of and type it out in this word doc on the laptops over there".

Not "Hey everybody, go home and wait to see if you get to come in Monday".
I think if you add some cryptography to Solid and use JSON-LD and pick some schemas and not expect everyone to implement OWL and then get a usable naming scheme for IPFS (or replace IPFS with something similar with names that work) and then create some P2P Solid servers then this could work pretty well.
Ask HN: What are your experiences of App Store optimisation?
Recently I’ve launched an app on the App Store which has had reasonable success and is getting great feedback from customers (5 star ratings etc).

I’ve had a number of agencies contact me to say they could increase downloads via App Store optimisation. What are everyone’s experience of attempting App store optimisation for SaaS products?

Specifically on the iOS App Store and in recent times (last year or so)? Has anyone actually seen a good uplift in new users and downloads?

With limited funds and time, I’m reluctant to expend $ on an activity which may turn out to follow a lot of the old-school web SEO scams and waste resources. Is ASO a good way to grow an app-based startup?
Thank you for saying this.

The point about FAANG paying so much gets made a lot, and that employees of startups are fools for their decisions, as if everyone's handed a dozen offers and makes a choice.

Most of us are lucky to get a single offer, sometimes after months of trying, so we take what we are given. The rosy picture portrayed on HN isn't at all accurate to my experience.

Though to be fair my current salary, as far as it is from the unrealistic portrayal of salaries here, still feels far better than almost any other job I would remotely have the capacity to do, and certainly far more than I need to live and have a pretty easy life if I were honest.

I'm payed a crazy amount of money to do something I love.
Telling someone they're going to be laid off and having them build skills both reduce their "goal performance," thereby serving the purpose of justifiably lowering their stack rank. I can imagine hiring some smart guy with a good resume, then telling him congratulations he just won a year's supply of O'Riley books.
This whole article reads like an attempt by the author to convince himself that having Down Syndrome is not bad, not limiting, doesn't make you different. And I understand why - having a child with this syndrome would be incredibly challenging and probably the only way to cope is to restructure your world view so as to "make it OK" - but there's definitely a strong thread of denial running through it.
I worked at a company that did this, then eventually phased it out. We were also required to do a self eval on a variety of categories, one a three point scale: exceeds expectations, meets or does not meet. My managing director point blank told me: no one exceeds expectations and if you dont meet, you're gone. So, the self eval was "meets" all the way down. After 2 years of that bullshit, I stopped filling it out. Figured, if theyre not going to take the opportunity for honest self reflection, why bother? I lasted there another 7 years before I left on my own volition. Never in the 7 years that I did not so the self eval did a manager mention it to me. Fuck that shit.
You can't when you're dealing with 6000+ people. Likely even the managers didn't know so as to avoid feeding the rumor mill. They'll now need to make up their minds about their reports whom they wouldn't mind losing.
Firing by email is just not a professional way to do things. Imagine if someone resigned by email.
It would be cool to see this sending data to farmOS running on the Raspberry Pi. farmOS has a nice graphing and mapping UI for assets on farms and I know they have it running on some Pi's.

https://farmos.org/
I don't know what article you are reading, but that line isn't in it. This one is though:

> SpaceX, citing a need to get “leaner,” said Friday it will lay off more than 10% of its roughly 6,000 employees.
Tips and Rumors About Avoiding the Chinese Firewall
Firing via SQL query or an email filter. Is this what we have come to?

SELECT * FROM employees ORDER BY last_performance_review_score LIMIT 600;
I don’t care that much about Patreon censoring the right, because there are many alternatives to take payments online. There are none however to visa/mastercard. It’s a cartel, where the choice is not even made by a customer (it is made by your bank who won’t even ask you), and there is no real alternative. I am pro-free markets but when that happens, I am actually in favor of regulations hitting these two hard, rather than going after google.