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I’d argue that if you’re good at developing software, you are probably passionate for it.

Creating software is very hard, and I’ve never worked with a person who has gotten good at it without having an above average level of interest. I believe that’s partly because developing good software, efficiently requires team members who can work independently with little guidance. And, to be able to do that, one has to have some interest in what they’re building. But, I may be wrong, and I’ll have to think about it more.

It’s good to know that people get turned off by that description, though. I’ve put that term in my job posts for a long time. It comes from my experiences in the 90s and 2000s when waves of people entered the industry only for the money. And, it always seemed to show in their work. Plus, because of shortages, often it’s easier to train passionate, entry-level developers than it is to find good experienced developers. And, that’s not because I low-ball on salary. It’s just very difficult to convince people to come work for you, especially when your a scrappy little startup with little revenue and high risk of going under.
Great job taking the comment entirely out of context.

I read and understood the full context. I was keeping it short for the sake of simplicity.

The basic message they're conveying is, after all: "If you have disagreements, don't express them."

It is extremely rare that decisions are "objectively" bad -- that was the main point of that section.

I was referring not to the decisions, but to the assertions about reality that are used to justify them.
This is the attitude of every employer, please do not be fooled into believing otherwise.

Promotions don't increase performance, they simply cost money, in exchange for improved retention, maybe.
That penguin might be the best character and metaphor. I would like to imagine the slow accumulation of such penguins that find some strange way to survive (imagining a Gary Larson cartoon).
This is interesting. I was wondering if anyone is working on something similar meant for nasal area? Chronic sinus infections, thick mucus and various other annoying nasal afflictions could possibly be solved by something like this?
First of all, you're wildly over-stating the difference. The scale based on percent of time spent or saved. It's impossible on this scale to even say that TypeScript is three times worse than no types, let alone thirty times.

As for the bug reducing benefit, yes it's up to 20% if you do nothing but TypeScript. As explained in the article, 80% of bugs can't be addressed by static types at all, so you can't skip the other measures safely. The zero point includes the other measures, which easily cover 90%+ reductions, combined.

Since other measures catch type errors, too, we apply the TypeScript reduction after discounting the other errors caught. Even with the maximum benefit of the doubt, assuming TypeScript catches 20% of the remainder, it's still a small percent of a small percent. You get exponentially diminishing returns with each bug prevention measure you apply, and TypeScript can't catch the lion's share of bugs, so it's the only one that makes sense to leave out as a quality control measure.
I've used cheap metallic spray paint without a mask and got quite dizzy and an odd aftertase, multiple times. I wonder was in those no-name wun hung lo products.

The acrylic based aerosols marketed for art aren't nearly that bad, although it's the solvent that's still a problem and requires a mask for heavy duty use, of course.
Last year I've seen project that used two RPis for somewhat simple industrial automation task. After I pointed out that the whole thing is huge overkill the original author did some optimalizations and redesign which resulted in design that still had two RPis, with one of them being used as one bit 3.3V logic invertor and nothing else.

Needless to say the whole thing was replaced by single ~$20 chinese FX1N clone (which also neatly solved how to drive 24V industrial loads from RPi/Arduino/ESP...).
Sounds to me like the hivemind woke up. Isn't that a good thing?
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Why not just post ASCII armored gpg messages on pastebin?
I run that site: it’s focused on books—a hacker news of books sorts. Of course HN is a much bigger assembly...
Passion per se not necessarily implicates becoming a better developer. Passion or obsession have their own side effects such as NIH, rock star syndrome, lack of social life, arrogance and blaming others on own errors, being overly competitive and jealous, application of tools and skills just because I can.

> My passionate colleagues might read an article from Hackernews about web architecture

Reading Hacker News while eating lunch implicates reading StackOverflow in bathroom hour later. Better off relax and chew properly.
It also said that Google doesn't have enough higher level work for people if it promoted them (because the promo rate is so much higher than industry average, and Google has shifted right in levels) but just about everyone ignored that.

You can't create larger scope/etc roles out of thin air (you actually have to need the work done), and levels always seem to right shift over time.
I think Facebook outrage is more justified than past grievances.

What exactly was the outrage toward Microsoft back then? A company trying to make money? Preposterous!
You need to be more careful with your reasoning. It's not always the case that a MAC simply prevents "replacing, trashing, or performing zero-knowledge modifications" on your data. It can be the case that you cannot retain confidentiality without integrity; MACs prevent chosen-ciphertext attacks.
I still have a few computers from the 90s.

One of them is running openbsd and I think it might be fun to write a driver for it actually. I see OpenMSX also support covox.
You’re overestimating the amount of actual effort most companies put into writing their job descriptions. The majority of such blurbs strive to fall close to a certain mean that is defined by a variety of canned phrases, one of those you seem to take issue with. Don’t read too deeply into the text. Instead, talk to the people and decide for yourself. The interview is a two way street, especially in this labor market. You can afford to be selective based on meaningful criteria.
It's a non-answer, and in any case these people never were relocated "out of" cities. They never lived there, and don't want to.
In order for it to be useful/predictive, you need the microscopic dynamics to preserve phase-space area, which is actually pretty special. I think you're also going to need something like ergodicity for "generic" systems.
I would love to offer this guy the opportunity to transport him and his family back to the "good times" 50000 years ago.

Why am I doubtful he would take it?
It scales quite well. Linux itself is developed in this way. Or perhaps you think Linux isn't at a large enough scale? (No sarcasm, I know that there projects out there much bigger than Linux.)
Companies on the smaller side tend not to have "metrics" like these, actually.

But I would agree with you that there's probably nothing special about Google in this context.
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Part of that is just what happens when you go from small start-up to entrenched big player. I remember when PayPal started. It was so cool and everyone who understood what it was was very enthused about it. Now it's all gripes and complaints.
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I never said it was the thing to do. I also never said it was helpful. That said, there is direct correlation between the PC'ing of such language and the __increase__ in the crisis.

If people choose to let themselves go, I'm not so sure another pat on the back is the answer.
Then maybe Google needs to stop advertising that it needs and has the most intelligent engineers in the industry. If they don't have enough work to feed them, they don't need to have them.
At Google and other recent tech giants, you'll find thousands of people who could live comfortably without working a day for the rest of their lives. They're clearly not doing it for the salary.
And the original Apple LaserWriter was the company's most powerful computer at its launch!

"With its 12 MHz 68000 CPU, the LaserWriter was 50% more powerful than existing Macs, and with the 1.5 MB of memory necessary to download Postscript fonts and print a page at full 300 dpi resolution, it had three times as much memory as the top-end Mac."

http://lowendmac.com/1985/apple-laserwriter/
this is illegal under GDPR for two reasons: opt-in gained with privacy policy v1 are not valid if gets updated. and you need to opt in by choice not because is the only option
I recently helped interview 4 internal candidates for 2 openings on my team. One question I asked all of them is "how do you feel this job will contribute to your personal development/career?" It makes a huge difference if you can answer this question, because it's totally possible to get candidates who don't actually want the job but are just applying as a matter of course. Then they may struggle in the job or leave. You want someone motivated to do the job, you really do, or you will be doing them and yourself a disservice.
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If you want to use a gopro on your phone you MuST agree to give then your location data. It's the only option.
I dread thinking about how that second group of yours feel during a layoff.

About the rat race, isn't that name just because it doesn't matter how much you run, the wheel just spins faster and you never get ahead? That's how I always understood that phrase.
TIL that professional athletes and Hollywood actors aren't allowed to negotiate their salaries /s. Both have very high levels of union participate, yet have extreme levels of salary negotiation.

Unions don't have to involve fixed pay scales to boost salaries for the participants, e.g. SAG-AFTRA mandates a portion of revenue go to actors in addition to salaries, NFLPA requires that a certain portion of revenue be paid in player salaries, neither prevents individuals from negotiating a higher salary for themselves.
When I see "We value your privacy" I know instantly something shady is going on. The only thing I'll accept is a "Accept" and "Reject all" button next to each other without further clicks.

My list of web sites that I actually visit gets smaller and smaller. I have a shortlist and for most of them I pay to remove ads if they have the option and I have all kinds of ad-blocking installed both on the network level and browser level.
No. As I said, I want basic Google search without ads cluttering up the search page.

It would be nice if other websites would stop depending on Google ad revenue as well, but that's a separate issue.
I don't get the Affleck hate. I have enjoyed his stint as Batman, I also love the LEGO Batman. If forced to choose I would take LEGO Batman just because Will Arnett is so f'ing hysterical to me!
Wouldn't leaving the site be a valid way to opt out?
How does doing it over the phone help? Now the call center employee can write down your details and rob you later, as can anyone who reviews a recording of the call. Your risk increases every month you call and reveal your payment details to yet another stranger.
I read the advice vastly more as "don't immediately express your counter-argument; instead, first ask questions and seek to understand how the decision was reached; after that, you're in a more informed position to discuss intelligently the decision and how that intersects with the way you see things".

See also Chesterton's Fence: https://www.chesterton.org/taking-a-fence-down/
not simultanesouly they did not.
> I usually see this idea of a heroic great artist (compared to artists who presumably don’t have what it takes to merit being mentioned) in discussions around classical music.

Well, it depends - the idea you talk about is certainly out there, but I think most commenters don't really take it all that seriously. There's a lot of great stuff in classical music that's by unheard-of, "minor" composers, and even some pieces the composer of which is entirely unknown, and we can only make guesses as to their rightful "attribution". As to the focus on the "quality of the work", there is a bit of a hierarchy in classical music where some genres (i.e. "formats" of music) are considered to be inherently more worthwhile than others. In instrumental music, for example, a "concerto" or an "overture" would be a chance for the composer to show off their best work, while a "symphony" would be slightly lower in ambition, and maybe a "suite" would be slightly lower again. So if you're familiar with these designations, you can kinda sorta predict what the composer will be going for, and whether it will be derivative "filler" or not.
An excellent demonstration of how there's often a big gap between having legal remedies available and actually enforcing them.
It’s always worth remembering that the term “Banana Republic” is as originally used to describe countries where the local government had been effectively taken over by United Fruit Company [1] to the extreme detriment of the local people.

The lesson here is that you can’t trust large corporations to act ethically and if you can’t trust you need to regulate them.

(That a clothing company rather insensitively chose Banana Republic as a trade name sort proves that you can’t legislate against bad taste).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic
That could be a good test of whether someone is being truthful in this claim. In my case, yes, I volunteer my time doing this, too.
His most replayed work. I'm sure you've heard it, but many don't know it's Chopin. If you realize that now, it may be a chance for some rewarding Spotify exploration...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9E6b3swbnWg
Is it really free for them if such displaces promotions by others?
>>Yeah like I mentioned, the argument about "best and brightest" isn't really a problem

I think you are being uncharitable to your own cause here.

If you want to pad $1 trillion to your economy, you are going to have to drain a few millions down the lane. And its absolutely worth it. For some paltry cents and nickels you get to be the most powerful, most wealth super power on earth. Starting a few Google like companies absolutely requires getting a good double digit percentage of people, who are likely to try and fail. There is no guaranteed recipe to these things.

Its already a miracle that somebody like Germany, France, UK or even India(Though Bangalore shows a lot of early promise) hasn't set up a SV like economic zone. Then you have to compete with them. As of now all the tax they pay goes into the kitty to pay for social security cheques, space projects and range of other moon shot first world projects.

You are guys currently sitting on the world domination throne. And your biggest debate at this point is debating legalese and getting worked up about local politics. A little a short on vision is what I would say.
They can both build images, and the commands may differ, but the resulting images are all compatible. Under the hood podman uses buildah to build images. What's the specific complaint?
I only suppose that the bounce rate is much higher than the email conversion rate.
> Tell that to your local newspaper.

If my local newspaper gave me any information worth the price, I would gladly pay for it.

> Ads are 100% a real part of the economy and are necessary to sustain certain kinds of business models.

I know a lot of companies believe this, since ads are ubiquitous. I just don't agree with them. IMO, if you are depending on ad revenue to fund your business, you either aren't providing anything worth paying for, or, as I said about Google and Facebook and some others, you're too lazy to try and actually make your users your customers, as they should be.
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You are absolutely right, but the sad reality is that we are a small minority. Perhaps we can influence the world by education though.
I used to think that until one day I asked probably my most skilled, experienced coworker whether he likes his job, not the job but the work he does. He was confused. He said no it's just work. I like completing the schedule.

Yet he works long hours, everything he does is extremely high quality and just watching him work you can tell he's pretty masterful at what he does. Though honestly, I'm not even sure if he sees himself that way.
> "Speaking as an obese person that knows the dangers and generally does the right thing re: diet and excercise- it’s crazy hard."

Personal will-power aide, it's hard because so much of the things that are designed to work against you have been normalized. Sadly, no one wants to hear - because of the way humans are wired - that their personal decisions have (literally) bigger and broader social implications.

Big might be beautiful. Thanks Oprah! But it's also unhealthy. Funny how that's never mentioned. It's madness how a parent can get arrested for leaving their child home alone (or similar) but it's perfectly fine to raise a 10 y/o to be obese, bordering on T2D.

p.s. Kudos to you for making the effort. I know it's not easy, as mentioned. What kills me is the denial of how normalized abnormal has become. And saying so in any form is not PC.
When deepmind announced they were working on sc2 expected it to be good, but not this good. Compare this to the top bots in SSCAIT (a BW AI tournament) and it's already so far ahead of anything that's existed up to this point. I'm eagerly looking forward to them playing all maps and matchups, I suspect it should be relatively easy to extend to. They've still got a long road ahead but this makes me think they can do it.

However, they keep harping on the APM being similar to a top human and it's just not. Maybe the average for a whole game is, but during fights it was bursting over 1500 APM with perfect execution. This wasn't just spam clicking corrosive bile or something like a human might to get that high but truly coordinated targeting and unit movement. This had lead it to use pathological unit compositions that wouldn't be effective for human play (like pure stalkers beating immortals). If they set a hard max APM to something like 600 I think it would develop more useful strategies.
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> Today’s messages glorify personal profit, even if bosses and investors — not workers — are the ones capturing most of the gains. Wage growth has been essentially stagnant for years.

Everyone loves quoting this statistic out of context. Median wages have been stagnant but compensation for the top 10% (and the top 1% especially) have increased substantially. All those poor exploited FAANG engineers fall at least into the top 10% by income (120k/year), and very large fraction of them into the top 1% too (~300k/year). It's amusing how techies love to complain about being victims of capitalist oppression when in reality they are, by a very, very large margin, massive beneficiaries of rising inequality, not its victims.
While this can depend heavily on the size of the company, unless you're exclusively looking for jobs at companies with <30 employees, you're not filtering for company values, you're filtering for specific individuals in the HR department. You might well be applying to horrible company that just happened to have a particularly spirited and considerate HR employee draft that particular ad on that particular day.
The other thing that is driving me crazy is the dark patterns employed to get you to click accept. Sometimes the reject button has deliberately had the onclick/hover changes removed so it doesn’t feel like a working button, other times it’s buried 3 levels deep etc.

What are we supposed to do about these? They have been added to comply with GDPR but clearly don’t.
Great news about the kernel! I take it you're purposefully ignoring the improvements to the tooling (docker machine, docker for mac, docker on windows), the ecosystem (docker hub, docker security stuff), the Docker format itself, docker-compose, etc etc etc.

None of this matters? It's just the "user land running away with hype and credit", right? Not because all those actually solved an issue for developers, rather than being a random kernel subsystem that you could use if you knew the arcane incantations to summon it, and that only worked on Linux.
It's news to me! I was maintaining the libpod package on AUR and I just saw the deletion request now. Happy it's in community now, but would have been nice to hear before it got deleted from AUR!

Might also want to delete cni-plugins from AUR now that it was also moved to community.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cni-plugins/
Time to go back to books and newspapers for information? :)
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No. It’s indicative of what one group of HR staff thinks about Google employees. It’s a brainstorming deck, not company policy.

I should note that I do not now nor have I ever worked for Google.
I get the issue with standardization of your independent variables, but do consider that trying to identify the "most relevant microbes" might not be as fruitful as you think. A lot of the factors may relate to community level effects, emerging from interaction between a multitude of species.
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This is my biggest issue with their hiring process. They clearly need grunts like me to do shit work and fix bugs in products like Android, but they won't hire me because I don't reflexively vomit whiteboard code and lack knowledge of website design. They are so intelligent in so many ways yet they fail to have enough self-introspection to adapt to their current situation.
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a job posting is half the battle - you want to have a competitive job description that's scraped by job engines and discoverable to the potential candidate. This may mean you have to look at how competitors are doing it and replicating what they're doing to maintain competitive presence -- which can include copy/paste and customizing as appropriate.

You can make a job description a special snowflake, but then not reach the right candidates. In my experience, I will find job postings on a job aggregator website, which will lead me to a companies website for the position. These positings will usually include a boilerplate on what the job includes + other details on the company. If it seems interesting, I'll research the firm to see what they're doing, opinions on glassdoor etc.

Judging a company and their treatment of their employees by job description alone is a very narrow view of how business operates.
> The Facebook outrage mob reminds me of my slashdot days when everyone referred to Microsoft as Micro$oft.

The fight against old Microsoft is a win-win success story (for now, I'm keeping an eye on all big players and so should everyone else.)

Microsoft is nicer and I think more profitable than ever. They don't call our code or favourite OS cancer anymore but actively support us. My understanding is even a lot of MS employees prefer the new Microsoft.

If we can manage to do the same with Facebook then feel free to come up with a similar stupid name for them. Because right now I think they deserve it as much as old M$ did.