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The need of mentoring must be completely voluntary. I was hired to be a team senior of developers who didn’t think they needed a mentor and it didn’t work out so well.

People actively seeking a mentor are likely willing to consider the advice and tough criticism they get as points to self-reflect upon, because they want to improve. They want to become faster stronger developers. As common as that might sound I have found intentional yearning for self-improvement to be rare or severely misunderstood among junior developers in the corporate world. More common than self improvement is interest in specific technology stacks of the moment and persuit of near instant gratification.

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Actually, I can remember observing this behavior once as a junior developer. When I started learning JavaScript 12 years ago the real big deal then was Java. Compared to me at the time everybody seemed incredibly experienced and talented, but most of the developers were negligent to the point of horrid incompetence at the frontend skills even though this was a big brand web business and 90% of their efforts generated frontend code.

There were a few Java developers who did have a solid understanding of the frontend code, but they intentionally didn’t advertise this. I had to actively observe for it. After badgering some of these people it was clear they were willing to provide mentoring if I asked for it and worked my ass off to chase it.

What I learned the hard way is the people who made the best developers had a secondary skill they actively thought about more than their primary skill and used that to reinforce their primary skill. At first it was Java developers who had a solid grasp of things like CSS, but I also saw it in others who were working out product management skills or business pricing logic more related to finance than programming. These people also tended to make strong mentors. The people focused on only their primary skills weren’t as capable and didn’t seek mentoring themselves or have much to offer other junior developers.
> That’s why direct democracy is considered rather harmful: just look at the clusterfuck that is Brexit for an idea of what happens when people are allowed to make fantasy decisions while disregarding their actual implementation

Brexit wasn't direct democracy; the public vote was a non-binding referendum submitted as an electoral strategum by the elected government, which then quit in favor of a new government of the same psrty, which decided—though in no way legally compelled to—to treat the vote as if it were a binding order in order to pass responsibility off onto someone other than itself.

In an actual direct democracy, the people would vote on the actual policy details, not vague generalizations only if and when it seemed likely to serve the political strategy of the ruling officials.
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> You are not so much paying for a potato, as you are paying for it to be fried, packaged, and in your hand, quickly and reliably.

If the menu says friend potato, why am I paying separately for it to be fried?
You can come up with this, and yet not know what populism means?

Here, Wikipedia has a decently long article on it[0] to get you up to speed.

When you're done reading, maybe you can stop prevaricating in this thread and just state whatever case you're trying to make.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism
Woah! upvoted by Kat and Justin Kan!
These groups frequently overlap, however, and their attacks on the mainstream scientific community sound awfully similar.
IMO this is by far one of the best features of HN - discussion quality tends to nosedive on such threads, or more accurately, be buried under unrelated (frequently political, emotionally-charged, and/or low-effort) comments.
If "tools" meant some sort of screw driver I'd welcome that. If there are any parts that have to bend to open the case these will break in the long run and are less reliable in my experience (e.g. the phone's back would slide off when pulling it out of the pocket, experienced that with my old BB Q10).

Some really small torx screws that can't fall out of their holes even when loose would be optimal. If they also shipped a little screwdriver that fits onto one's key chain I'd be more than happy with that solution.
It's unclear to me that this problem is unique to capitalism. All economic systems need regulation. Democracy appears to me to be the best way to create and manage that regulation.
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I think it's fair enough to accurately label this as a high-end disinformation campaign

That is very apt.

Thiel's thumb on the scale is something that should be disclosed, but I don't think anyone is calling for censorship.

Likewise, we don't want to encourage the habit of not thinking, not reading, and just going by emotional name association. To quote one of Frank Miller's more popular characters, "These of the tools of the enemy. We do not need them. We will not use them."
Can you elaborate on your background a bit, please? How did you satisfy the prerequisites of the program without a formal CS degree? I thought about applying myself but other than MOOCs and professional experience, I don't have much to show on a transcript.
This is site of which the author is speaking

https://www.goodcheapandfast.com/

I know little about SEO ... but I'm sorry man you are CRAZY if you think your are going to rank for the words

good, fast, OR cheap

for something that came out in the past year.

And outside of that im sure there is strong competition to rank for all of the categories of devices that appear on the site...

This is just not a think the author can make the conclusion in their title based on...
Let me rephrase that. Is x86/x64 (or ARM, for that matter) architecture ideal to compile WASM into? Or could a different architecture be designed that would result in better performance?
Relying on certifications is laughable. Things like "Organic", "Fair Trade", and "Cage Free" do not always mean what you think they mean. Even what constitutes products like peanut butter is up for dispute by those trying to sell a cheapened product as the real thing[1].

Even in tech you have paper CCNA who don't know anything, but have a piece of paper saying they're certified.

You're also saying in this case it is theft, and should be handled by the legal system, which in part is legislated by labor regulations.

1. https://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/History/ProductRegulation/ucm13...
I disagree, I believe corruption in western democracies can be addressed within their legal frameworks. A lot of the issues with money and politics have existed in some form or another for quite some time, but recently the excesses of corruption has become more extreme - still the American government is able to occasionally police itself, even if it's had trouble doing so recently.
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Phones have to be replaced at some point. I don't think the number of phones sold in general is going to start going down. Population is increasing, more people are coming online, and phones seem to last as long as they always have (~2 years in my experience)
Haha thanks. I’d consider that a good problem to have that we can solve hopefully.
Could someone explain to me what's up with those tips? If I'm doing a job I expect to be paid a specific amount. Tips to me seem like pittance which you would give to someone who at least can't work or something, for services you just pay a normal price which the owner of the place needs to calculate with.

I'm often thinking about Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4sbYy0WdGQ he makes the point I'm also trying to make. People should get paid for doing service and not need to rely on pittance of the customers because their bosses don't calculate the real cost of doing business. If it were up to me tips would be forbidden.

In Japan (as far as I understand) it's an insult to tip, it's almost like: "This business probably isn't doing well enough to pay you a proper salary, so here's a little something extra."
if this consultancy found a specialist niche within which it could charge not $165/hr but rather $220/hr, you would not expect to see developer wages increase commensurately

It depends on the definition of "commensurately", but assume that only some of their developers are able to fill the new lucrative niche. Would it not be in the company's interest to be willing to give those employees something like a proportional 25% raise? If they don't, isn't it likely that a competitor will eventually poach those select employees, causing the company to lose access to the niche?
My point is that for new features, like key up would be, it is not necessary to be bound by terminfo. If some or all
of xterm, VTE, konsole, rxvt-unicode and iterm2 supported it, that is a large proportion of the modern *nix terminals that people still use. And they are all VT100 compatible terminals. If you look at a lot of recent features, such as SGR mouse mode, RGB colour, underline styles, focus events - they are all based on VT100 style escape sequences, and they all started with a few terminals and existed for a good while (with applications using them) before terminfo added any sort of support.
>The Chinese courts also blocked iphone sales in China over Qualcomm. My understanding is the newest line of phones weren't affected (they used intel modems

The Qualcomm patents in the China suit were software patents unrelated to cellular modems.

>The patents allow users to edit and resize photos and manage apps by using a touchscreen, according to the lawsuit.

https://observer.com/2018/12/qualcomm-lawsuit-iphone-ban-chi...

Apple has already issued a patch with a software workaround.

You may be thinking about the case in Germany.
SEO is my main issue as well. I write good content, share with the right folks, write guest posts (that got featured of 4 different big websites), yet my traffic is tanking!

It was growing steadily, but after I switched to https, it started consistently falling, every day.

Google, I try to keep my website healthy and have good content, why are you testing my patience?

Is link building still the #1 strategy to boost your page rank? OR has the game changed?

Can anyone point to a good SEO guide? (Would be willing to pay $$$)
Pay an accountant, doesn't have to be some high dollar person, just pay someone that insulates you. Even H&R Block for a negligible income is better than screwing it up yourself. There are some details you have to get right with a Delaware corp that is a foreign registration in your home state.

Paying an accountant, or other tax preparer will help insulate you if there is a mistake as they will be responsible. That helps insulate you considerably even if the amounts are small.

If you don't want to do this, get a small business tax prep software and try your hand there, but I'd say use an accountant personally.
Some healthy skepticism is definitely required here, but I think the title of the MJ article was a little misleading. This publication looks more like NYRB or a similar high-brow literary magazine - far from what I think of when I see the phrase "science journal". Could still be nonsense and propaganda, but at least it's not pretending to be peer-reviewed original research.
You probably figured it out then :) .
All you can do is complain until you get critical mass to move off the platform all at once in most cases. If I need to order something online without a physical address, do I have an option besides amazon or do I just go without and pay more for the same product? If I want to receive payments online do I use paypal or try and use something niche like bitcoin and have most customers move elsewhere? If I want free email do I use gmail or do I go with a service that is way less secure? It's a winner-take-all effect in an unrestrained market where the corporations have more power than the actual government. The only thing that has an effect is massive propaganda supported by large tribal groups, an individual is literally meaningless and in fact encouraged to slough off and die.
I just wish we decoupled apps and sites, instead of forcing it all together in a large and incoherent design. This is especially painful now that it's spilling over into the desktop world because of all the Electron apps.
Rubber Ducky debugging may help avoid many of these conflicts.
No, it’s just a long-winded rehashing of the tired “micro vs macro evolution” argument.

And the author quite explicitly stand by their 30-year old thesis. Quote: orthodox evolutionary theory is unable to explain the origins of various taxa-defining innovations.

This was my position in Evolution.

It remains my position today
Yes, the Theory of Evolution is a scientific theory. There is no scientific theory for climate change that I am aware of -- just many/most scientists who think the evidence for climate change is significant.
Tastes vary. Not about being mocked, that sucks, but about what's important and interesting. When I was in college I borrowed algorithms textbooks from a CS student to study for fun but never took a single CS class because I didn't want to do the "boring" stuff she was doing for class like writing Telnet clients and kernel modules and implementing parts of the network stack. I loved the books that concentrated on theory and yadda-yaddaed how it might be applied in the real world. Ten years later my tastes were reversed; I was sick of math but really curious about nuts and bolts. So don't assume people are put off by focusing on theory and dismissing everything else as "Googleable"! For some folks it's exactly what they're looking for.
Maybe we should just let these guys meander through a few ideas on their little site before getting into Nazis, Communists and World Wars. :)

I think the world would be much better off if we could have functional, substantive discussions about Nazis, Communists and World Wars. Those are all harsh outliers of where groupthink can lead entire countries. As groupthink is one of the hardest things to remain aware of and truly think about, these outliers are something we should be able to talk dispassionately about. (Much as the educated portion of the population has embraced the utility of being able to think and talk calmly and rationally about sex and sex education.)
Yeah, my theory is that it's just about 2 weeks after everyone is back from holidays, which means all the engineers are back and ready to ship features and changes after nothing's been touched during the holidays. All this "go fever" is leading to somewhat reckless modifications of production systems.
Is it a genuine hardware killswitch, though? Or just a hardware button with actual implementation of mute done in software?
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Apparently they didn’t try enough ;)
The HN title/article is slightly misleading with its use of "root access"; the iOS Enterprise Root certs give increased data access outside of an app (e.g. decrypted SSL traffic, like what this app was doing), but not "root access" in the Unix sense.

You can play with them using mitmproxy to generate a Cert and intercept SSL traffic.
The operating income shows the income drop that the big tax rate change (which won't repeat next year) is helping to soften in the net income figure.

A decline from $26.2b to $23.3b, or 11%.
It makes me wonder if another part of this story is that Google doesn't reward low-contrast text, either.
I don't think he was saying it was unique to capitalism, only that it's inevitable under a capitalist system. Which is true. As you said, regulation is necessary to keep capitalism from becoming a socially-corruptive influence.
it's really really hard to rank post 2014 era just because you want it to work. The internet is a big-boys-only club now. Things were easy 10 years ago and those who benefited from the free ride by Google SEO, Facebook and Twitter around a decade ago, are now multi millionaires and billionaires and lecturing everywhere how to build a great business while it wasn't actually their unique genius that made it happen in the first place.
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Agreed. I was a regular contributor to NCSE until they started doing this.

We may still wake up one day and realize that all our climate models are hopelessly wrong, in one direction or the other. We are not going to wake up one day and realize that the core tenets of evolutionary biology are wrong. It does no favor to either of these sciences to place them on the same footing of certainty.
Easy math = divide by 3 and multiply by 1800.

You’ve got a $99,000 job including the value of benefits and bonuses.
Said domain is not registered, While I suspect your comment is just aimed at being humorous it may be taken by some as a bit of a troll comment.
I cannot rightly comprehend the confusion of ideas that led to such a statement.
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Loooong-time digital & affiliate marketer here. Interestingly, I'd say the #1 culprit here is time...and the second is probably content thinness.

Each page is certainly useful, but doesn't really show much information that google _believes_ is useful to a user.

Example: https://www.goodcheapandfast.com/articles/best-cordless-vacu...

The page itself is quite useful to someone searching for the right cordless vacuum, but google's algorithm is looking for signs of quality that would assist it in better understanding the potential value.

Examples here include:

1. Structured data in the page such as a standard price / discount price / features / avg rating table

2. A longer description of the product with more information, such as features

3. Shorter backlink anchor text to Amazon that have less data crammed in them (try and separate out the features from the actual product name here)

4. Crosslinking: you have reams of content that is related, so cross link it! You're making it hard for google to discover relevant content paths. Cordless Vacuums -> Robot Vacuums -> Dyson Vacuums -> Dyson Vacuum Accessories, is one example. The content journey one can take is pretty much Home -> Search -> Article -> Amazon, much too short.

5. Everything is stacked under tld/articles/article-name and you have very little variation, making it harder for users to easily see this sort of indexing. Interestingly, category pages, landers with aggregation of multiple areas of content, etc. can help because you assist in discoverability for the user. Keep your canonical tags sorted, no-index variants of category pages so you don't end up with reams of pages indexed, and you should see better potential user journeys.

This is just off the cuff and YMMV, but is my first take. Hit me on LinkedIn if you want to chat.
The actual article title is "Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them".
If you bet at 10-1 here, your bet is 10-1 on your receipt, and your odds are 10-1. Your bet at that price may change the odds for everyone who comes later, but that doesn't affect yours. It is quite possible to arbitrage odds between bookmakers. Or it would be, if they didn't do such a good job of conferring and mutually underwriting their risk themselves.

It must be crazy having the odds change on you after your bet.
Thats literally what socialism is. Its democracy of the workplace that prevents wealth from accumulating in the hands of the few. This is why Marx is famous.
He's not trying to rank for those - he's going after product search terms such as "best robot vacuum", which is also quite hard to rank for.
> There is no scientific theory for climate change that I am aware of

The relevant analog of the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection would be the Greenhouse Theory of Climate Change.
Developers don’t care about market share. If they did, they would have been prioritizing Android years ago. Developers care about reaching people who are willing and able to spend money. Statistically, that is still iOS users.
I like that. A constraint means you have at least a starting point too. I've always struggled to keep on track when faced with seemingly infinite options. The first few decisions/constraints that define a project and allow it to be worked on can take a long time.

I really wonder if that admin was more of a 'bastard operator from hell' (old school reference) or sneakily getting you to improve yourself.
"Thank you for calling 310-DELL. Have to tried restarting your computer?"

(Older Canadian tech types should recognize that.)
I see arguing but no consensus on what ought to be done.

My use case: I run a shell pipeline that will probably take all weekend to finish. On a POSIX box I start it with nohup. What do I do on a systemd box? Does nohup need a patch that doesn't exist yet?
Exactly this.

Modern corruption vehicles include things like speeches, book publishing fees, movie/documentary fees, consulting fees, and real-estate deals where an expensive property is sold or rented for much less than market value.

Money laundering is done through complex derivatives, charitable foundations, and so on.

Basically modern day western corruption is based on the premise that 'work compensation' is 'discretionary' -- so any kind of 'work-like' engagement of a corrupted politician, or his/her immediate family members is easily turned into a bribe.

Even accidental (or minor) corruption of politicians, also adds to the rise of 'black mailing'. So there are politicians who have 'dirt on others', and that's their trading currency.

And so on, the swamp is continuing to snowball.

Some examples
[1] http://time.com/3889577/hillary-clinton-paid-speeches-lobbyi...

[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
I am sure others can find more.
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Many people claimed to never do business again with these companies, yet there is no indication that any significant number actually did.

It looks like you're drawing a conclusion based on an absence of evidence of what people aren't doing anymore.
(Extracted with slight modification from the translation at http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap3/corpus of Sennacherib 017, the King Prism. The original is longer.)
I seem to remember a community much like this one, ca 15 years ago (slashdot) where threads regularly devolved into flame wars between creationists and scientists.

Each sides’ side hustles (“mens’ rights“, income inequality) has remained the same, so I’m confident to say we’re seeing the same old war on a new green field.

(But at least creationism seems mostly dead these days, this article nonewithstanding)
I... I... I just can’t even...

What is Facebook thinking?? Shouldn’t a company which is already getting bad PR for its handling of private data be extra careful about how much personal data it gathers and what it does with it?
Whilst not technically correct (Facebook is not getting "root access" to the device), paying teens to install a VPN that spies on them is just gross!
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This is why our company is still supporting IE11, and will be for some time to come.

Personally, I'm hoping the app my team builds will be able to finally drop IE11 support once the new Chromium-based Edge app becomes available on Windows 7 and 8.
Someone pointed me to this [0], and I wonder if it is related? Maybe Microsoft tried some changes in response?

[0] https://medium.com/@lukeberner/how-i-abused-2fa-to-maintain-...
For Swedish harness racing there is only one bookie. The state has had monopoly on betting in general for a long time and is very strictly regulated also today.
So, there won't be any arbitrage across bookies for these races at least.
I think that may be the theory Instacart is using, but I suspect it hasn't been tested, and that they're doing this under the move fast, flout legal conventions until someone makes you stop startup strategy.
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