skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Executives are paid a lot of money, this money comes from the Elsevier business model of high subscription fees. Different business model means probably less revenue hence less executive pay. So they are riding it out as long as it lasts. They are not interested in saving the company and will move on to other high paying jobs in the end.
There's also a research paper on this subject. Some of the information in it might no longer be relevant in today's world though.

http://www.tentacle.franken.de/papers/hiddencams.pdf
I had the impression a CIO was just a CTO of a non-IT company.

A SaaS company makes its money with IT, so the CTO knows IT.

A car company makes its money with cars, so the CTO is a car engineer, but they also need someone to manage the IT, so they have a CIO.
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> Seniority is the number of job opportunities you have, not your current job title.

I like the thinking here but in a market with more open roles than qualified people, I'm not sure how valuable a measure it is.

I would also add that titles themselves are a trap. If your current title is Software Engineer, hiring companies may offer you a "Senior" title to tip the scales and get you into a job that is substantially the same as your current role.

Edit:typos
I'm not sure if I'm morally OK with advising people to interview 3 times a year. It might be good advice for the interviewee, but it wastes a lot of the interviewer's time (and potentially money).

If I was interviewing a candidate, it would take probably two man-days total across all the interviewers, HR, etc. So maybe $1500 total plus disrupting everybody's schedules. Plus maybe another $1000 in travel expenses.

Asking 3 random companies to spend that every year just so I could feel good about my employability would make me a low-key sociopath.
In my opinion, the current choices for UI/UX design on Linux are lacking.

Linux could certainly do with more designers using its platform, but they haven't had a good choice in tools.

Note: Akira isn't a Desktop UI builder, like Glade or QML Designer. This tool is for wireframes and visual designs.
Yep. In addition to the removal of register_globals sometime back, several deprecated extensions (like mysql_* and ereg_*) and magic quotes have also been removed.

Some other deprecations:
http://php.net/manual/en/migration70.incompatible.php
no, just pick the ones that will be in that 5%
1. Do it propery :) Here's a good guide: https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

2. Gitlab has solutions, Atlassian Bamboo, Buddy, FTPloy, Jenkins, etc.

3. Monolog https://github.com/Seldaek/monolog
'it is generally well-known that gifts/free things are never really "free"'

Although for some definition of altruism, this could always be argued to be true, I think this misses some nuances.

If you give to charity (say with motivation being a relief from guilt or a feeling of social duty), I think most people would consider that an altruistic action. In that situation, you have no real expectation of future return, so I would say the gift was "free".

Or similarly, when you care for a dying relative, there is often no expectation of benefit other than from the act of giving itself.
It's not something I could do instead - it's something I would have to do in addition. And there's some problems with that - at the time I'm copying/mirroring, the site is out there on the net. Uploading (as in direct uploading) to archive.org of sites that exists would look a bit strange, I think.
But if you mean to get archive.org to mirror instead - yes, I do that too, but the thing is, you can't get archive.org to recursively mirror anything. You can point save.archive.org (IIRC - they change the URL sometimes) to a not-yet archived site (or one which needs an update), and archive.org will copy that page. You'll have to click-and-walk through every page if you want archive.org to get a full mirror. And I have done that too, with a few sites. But that's a lot of time-consuming work. Just quickly mirroring a site that pops up during a technical discussion takes all of 30 seconds to set up.
...methheads in RVs terrorizing everyone in a Mad Max wonderland.

Actually the working title of the next one is Max Max the Wasteland.

But it might not get made anytime soon.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4575512/
I don't think the complexity of git's command options is a UI problem. It results from the basis of its operation. We could change some names, add or remove some concepts to how some of the operations are performed, but there are simply a large number of actions to handle many edge cases.

A better solution for prose was to always be merging with live multiple collaborator updates. Conflicts are visible in real-time. I can't see something like this would work with code. Hmm interesting... unless we only allow additions and refactorings to working checkpoints.
I’m not sure a job interview is necessarily a good indicator of a person’s status/progress any more than a title. It can be just as human and subjective.

I would hope there are other ways to assess your gaps.
Rice pudding.
I got a new license plate for a car I had just bought. 2 weeks later I got ~30 tickets in the mail going back 5 years. Apparently they had been misentered and just sat in some queue waiting for that plate number to go live.
I have worked in IT for 37+ years. That's way, way too much.
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> Seniority is the number of job opportunities you have, not your current job title.

I'm still on the fence on how to feel about this quote, how does the rest feel about this?
They also have agents so they are kind of a hybrid online offline model. Founded 2014.

>Purplebricks has already become the number one Real Estate Brokerage in the UK in only three years, and is the fastest growing brand in Australia since launching there in 2016.

They've now launched in the US. Not sure how that'll go. They've got good trustpilot feedback https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.purplebricks.com

The model seems slightly different in the US. In LA it seems to be a fixed $3,600 fee https://www.purplebricks.com/sell?lreeZipcode=90210
Well almost every company acts in a sociopathic way to maximize profit so I don’t see any issue with it. I also don’t think the reason to do it is to feel better about yourself, it’s to gain information about your situation in the job market.
Think about the use-case where you want all your Relational data to be denormalised and written to a S3 bucket and then loaded into something like Redshift for analytical loads.

If you start pushing the data from your application itself then you introduce the problem of dual-writes (what if S3 write failed? what if RDBMS failed?).

If instead you treat your RDBMS as the source of truth and use something like PostgresSQL's logical decoding feature to listen to the replication stream and then push the events from that stream to S3 you can achieve guaranteed-eventual-consistency.

The best way would've obviously been to make your application write to a Message Bus (Kafka etc.) and then some other application would persist that message to your RDBMS. This approach requires more development effort and introduces all the issues that distributed systems face: Read your writes, read follow writes, write follow reads etc.
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I think that's the distinction that matters. You can collect it, and it stops being sold, now somebody somewhere wants your set in brand new condition so they can play with it, cause well they love Lego's and you've got some rare set they wish they had.
paying for storage of large amounts of lego sets will offset any gain you can extract out of them... obvious flaw of the study.
Companies are already wasting 10x more money and emotional capital with their ridiculous interviewing processes.

I definitely appreciate the sentiment that everyone should negotiate in good faith, but until you are in front of your future manager and they explain very clearly what the job entails (whether virtual or in person), nothing is to be believed.

Wasting a company's time and money is something they already accept. If they didn't, they would optimize their process for minimal time spent.
There are 2 kinds of knowledge, e.g. “knowing python” and “knowing how we do things at company X”. As you get more senior the second kind takes over - but it is worthless outside company X. Always keep the first kind of knowledge sharp.
As a person who interviews people.

^ 100% this, actually the cost is probably understated.

I spend 2-3hrs reviewing a candidate's CV/resume before giving the go-ahead to Recruitment to schedule an interview, then there's the interviews which are about an hour each.

Then there's the on-site, which is a stage you'd want to get to, even if you're interviewing to practice.

So, for 3 members of my team it's roughly 3hrs + recruiters time (scheduling consumes so much time) and they have to negotiate with central HQ what salary range we can offer a person for their experience/subjective "goodness".

All-in-all I can easily see it taking more than a week of person-power for a single candidate.
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The paper uses Specification Curve Analysis (SCA). I have never heard of SCA but it looks interesting.
Yeah, exactly, right?

If I do the unquantifiable math on the cost of storage tomy happiness living here, it's not worth it. But I value various things like clutter as incredibly expensive.
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Along those lines, though, I’ve always found online dating to be rather fun when enjoying each date for what it is rather than putting any pressure on myself with long term expectations. Interviewing is a whole lot less stressful when you do it often enough at low enough stakes that you are used to the experience. It’s fun to learn how other companies interview, chat with some engineers, and maybe get a salary benchmark.

3x/year is a bit high, but I definitely think running through one full process/year is worthwhile/necessary.
Interesting. Figures it's #6 though.
This is what I do. Batch/Bash scripts depending on the environment. OR (downvote me) I just scp the app to the server, then systemctl restart it!
I’m not disputing that gamification is a problem, but kids have been getting angry at parents for taking their toys away since the dawn of time.
If you could, how would you change the interviewing process?

It's not ridiculous in my opinion to want to talk to (and ask questions of) a potential candidate.

If you don't like interviews, I would look into contracting, as companies generally take on contractors very easily.
I would expect correlation to the amount of cash sloshing about / the state of the economy.

Unemployed people aren't likely to be buying collectors sets of Lego.

Its unclear how much of this return is due to a recent boom. I hadn't heard of Lego collecting until 5? years ago. So now you have adults in the market with a lot more money to spend, wanting to relive their child hood (not intended as an insult), is this just a bubble?
The makefile in that article is not really a makefile though. It is just a convenient way to bundle some shell commands.

The real intention of a makefile is to specify dependencies, and how to (re)build targets if they are out of date compared to their dependencies. That is traditionally used to build e.g. C or C++ projects, and can indeed quickly become very cumbersome. Almost nobody writes them by hand for larger projects. These days almost everybody uses either some makefile generator or a more modern alternative to make.
You could produce a larger volume of more dilute brine by extracting less water per unit of input seawater.

You would need to spend more energy on pumping seawater and brine, but less energy on moving water up a concentration gradient. I have no idea which cost would dominate.
> The mainstream Linux stack

Without taking away anything from your argument, I'd like to point out that by most objective measures, Android is the mainstream Linux stack.
You can just dilute with seawater, as discussed elsewhere in this thread.
From Wikipedia

>Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented.

Propaganda doesn't have to be negative, it just has to be influential.

The "negative thing" about "reduce reuse recycle" is the thing we're talking about here: "Hoarding". It encourages people to keep things they don't actually need or want, which has negative effects on their living conditions and psyches, which in turn can be negative for society in general.

I'm sure it's great for the environment, but it's less than great for the humans.
I think you're underestimating how much of an ecosystem there is in a desert. It's often a fairly fragile one as well.
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Realistically no one who is employed already has time to jump through all the hoops in the present day interview process, the quizzes and homework and blah blah blah, just for fun.
I am having quite a few busy months, and in turn, having to spend a lot more time on screen. And I am starting to catch myself having some conscience issues with this. A part of my brain is automatically complaining that this isn't healthy and sustainable.

I catch myself getting anxious about my posture even though my back/neck doesn't hurt in the evening. And I think about my eyes a lot and how I don't want to 'damage' them even more.

Little things like this you know... it's the best self-concluded research out there.
,,Even if mining uses clean power, it carries the opportunity cost of not using said power for greener purposes'' - This is totally stupid. By buying solar panels you're making them cheaper, not more expensive. At the same time of course I wish coal would be taxed more, so that people don't use it that much.
They call it “free trials without the hassle” and I’m glad they are doing it, but I bet there will be many fewer companies willing to offer free trials if the opt out rate at the end of trials is high enough
My android one is a little better. It tells me my screen time, and a breakdown of what app I had open and for how long. Unfortunately a large swathe of that is "chrome", but there is definitely info to be gleaned from it.

It's 12:30 and I've unlocked my phone 40 times, opened chrome 21 times, and reddit 29 times...
What about "Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior" from elsewhere? FB is just feeding the coordinated desinformation spread by the US. Billions in ADs, targeted manipulation, phone bots, media monopolies spreading bullshit round the year, but don't worry about that, look Russia...
Maybe you(writer of the blogpost) had a bad experience and decided to write about it, but in reality, that's not how entirely things work.

You are ignoring all the people that had a career and now are CEO of a Forbes 100. Everybody start somewhere and go somewhere. I had a bad experience getting promoted at a startup and have to report directly to a crazy CEO in a business running out of money, but that just made me even better. I've learned so much, after that "traumatic" experience, I went developer mode again and now I'm in a much better position than I've ever been -- but I saw how many of my peers would give up and make conclusions at the first time they have a bad emotional experience at work, even though that when they see around, they see people building great careers, but they all just think it is "ah, it is just ball licking, this person has no talent" and just keep taking orders as a soft. dev their whole lives.

I'm not saying that a developer should go to management or become an architect, but please don't limit yourself to some emotional response, but instead, achieve greatness. Don't become to attached to what happened to you, but instead, look around. Is that really true? With your reasoning, you would think that whoever is a CTO and is working for a company 10 years is a terrible and unemployable person, when I actually see the opposite. The more I move up, the more people send me more "rescue my team/company, I give you money" and also the more rare I become. I think this is similar for everybody.

BUT if you end up doing some custom code in PHP in a strange framework and become architect until your company closes and you are in a bad position, that is sort of on you, to accepting it, not questioning, proposing chances and not being able to position yourself in the job market well. Your company has their own interests and you should have yours.
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Jane Austen's letters include high praise for a hand-made dinner set her family acquired.

You can go and see it at one of the houses she lived in.

It looks terrible by modern standards - very poor and rough.

Industrial design and production create items with tolerances, precision, and (optionally) durability that are almost completely unimaginable if you're making things by hand.

The only items up to modern standards are suits of armour and later clockwork pieces.

If you're used to modern manufacturing they look professional. But every element was made by hand - literally hammered or pressed out - and the incredible precision in later jointed pieces is just jaw-dropping.
I use Spacemacs ONLY to have access to Magit. And I've successfully converted many non-emacs non-vim folks to use it, all of them love it.
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Very popular toys, preferably with something unusual/wrong with them.

Or very unpopular toys, that no one bought.

Easy.
They’re closely related. Many (most?) companies hire for a role with a title that’s on par with your current one. This is true across all industries with the more established ones having near standardized names for each position.
Wait, what? So waste is good for economy now?
The article says that after data mining a large dataset for correlations, the authors could only explain 0.4% of the variation in well-being by screen time. Is there really that much to worry about?
The analysis ignores 99.99% of LEGO that has been sold and is now worthless.

Focusing on items that have been resold would bias the analysis to show larger profits for LEGO investment.

This looks like a great example of survivorship bias.
I bought an Android e-reader tablet (Boyue Likebook Mars) and it has been life changing. I suffer from the same problem since I use a computer almost 9-10 hours a day at work. Then I go home and use my laptop and my phone before I sleep. An e-reader has helped me cut down my screen usage by probably 2-3 hours a day.
The more you do it the easier it gets

If you are thinking about changing job, I would highly recommend going on a few "practice" interviews. Choose a few companies that you don't think you'd want to work for that have open jobs that are the same or similar to what you want to move to.

This will give you the chance to brush up on your interview skills without pressure. Plus there's always a chance that such a company will surprise you and become your next gig.
It hits home for me but I'm probably the minority. I have a senior title but I'm a PeopleSoft developer which is kind of becoming an obsolete niche. I don't really have the skill set to interview for other senior software development positions.
It is a flatfile PHP CMS for anyone wondering. Version 3 is admin rewrite in Vue.js

It is one of the best if you need smaller/medium size website or blog. Much nicer dev experience thany any worpress drupal bs. I think Tower git client website is made using kirby.
I recommend following the work of Amy Orben, she's very critical of the wide conclusions drawn from weak data:
https://twitter.com/OrbenAmy

And she's a researcher committed to good scientific practice.

Her tl;dr is that yeah, there are negative effects, but they're small and the data is messy. And screen time is a bad concept, because it lumps together very different things.
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To me, the CIO is the person in charge of the IT infrastructure. That is, making sure computers are working, that the network and the servers are up, etc. It's a distraction for the CTO, so even in a SaaS business I'd expect to see someone owning infrastructure sooner or later.
There has been experiments with GPS successful Spoofing attacks against ships, so even if it is airgapped, it's not 100% safe.

https://insidegnss.com/gps-spoofing-experiment-knocks-ship-o...
Likewise in the UK pickup trucks are not fashionable; rural people get Landrovers (or similar), urban workers tend to prefer vans. Trailers are not so widespread. Being able to rent one from a store sounds like a great idea; there are a few shops (B&Q, IKEA) which often have a van rental concession in their parking.
My dream job.
In my past experience the US' foreign language government run media operations are pretty transparent. The BBG, broadcasting board of governors, is part of the federal budget and is regularly audited, is subject to FOIA requests, etc.

BBG is the parent entity of Voice of America, etc.

The US runs a lot of foreign language media which people might not know exists, if they aren't a native speaker of the target language/culture.

For example Radio Azadi, which is the VOA/RFE for Dari speakers in Afghanistan. It also produces Pashto content.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Azadi

And Farda for Iranian Farsi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Farda
No so true. The senior would ask know the answer to "python can be use in this way to solve x but here are the limitations of that solution, maybe we close those limitations with Ruby".
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I guess you could use it to extract salt - one could place evaporation pools next to the water extraction plant. It would evaporate faster than regular seawater.
Read Lying from Sam Harris. It's a short read, you'll then know what to do.

The digital honor code in the pdf invites me to share it with others as long as I've bought it (which I've done twice). Send me a pm if you want it.
Or a lack of false positive/hypothesis test analysis.