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The answer to this question is easy. It's all about supply and demand. The demand for programmers is ever increasing with the way we are advancing as a world. So the demand is extremely high for good developers. This will continue to be the case going forward as become of a digital world. I suppose most of the workforce in 50 years will need at least a basic programming skill set like reading and writing. The ice block isn't freezing anytime soon, it's outside in the snow, in Antarctica.
For a sanctioned country to create its own crypto currency makes little sense. The west will just ban any use of that currency and they will be in the same boat as before except now they will have a bunch of useless digital tokens. If they want to be able to move money and the potential to purchase goods and services with it, they should use an existing, established crypto.

Using something such as Monero/Zcash (pick your flavor of the month) makes far more sense as there is already a widespread supply allowing them to optimally 'wash' their funds. They will likely not be able to convert their crypto currencies into dollars and use those dollars in any meaningful way but they could use the crypto currency to purchase needed goods and services and allow the vendors to worry about fiat conversion.

Creating an Iranian cryptocurrency for use anywhere outside of Iran is doa. I don't really understand the point of using it inside Iran either as they have fiat for that.
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maybe people are finally sick of trashy clickbait tabloid articles?
The grainy texture comes from protein crystals.
A car assembly plant can pull up to 100 MVA, that is 100,000 kva or roughly 1,000,000 amps at household current. That isn't going to come from a few honda backup generators. Such power would require either a few hundred acres of solar panels attached to battery the side of a small nation, or an on-site combustion plant.
I've never seen parmesan packaged in anything that wasn't transparent or completely clear. If you buy a block of parmesan that doesn't seem to actually be parmesan its probably your fault.

Some cheeses like the one you mentioned, I can see a need for caution, but I can generally look at a block of parmesan and tell whether its going to be great or mediocre.
Very awesome video on physics and how some theorem are ignored for no reason but just being far ahead of their time, thanks for this link dude.
Well, I guess they do have access to all of your files anyway?
The WARN act applies to most companies with 100+ employees and legally mandates 60 days notice.
It focuses on the middle east, where the US (& allies) / NATO have been the driving forces behind most of the recent "conflicts" that led to forced migrations (Iraq, Libya, Syria), and then says "climate change had a significant impact"?
Do generals at the Pentagon get too war-happy when it's too warm on average in any given year?
Or is it that plunging Libya and Syria into civil war and leaving Iraq close to it wouldn't have mattered as much if it wasn't for that sea level rise?
I recently read "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow" and in it, the author raises many interesting ideas about consciousness, the mind, self, free will, etc.

Would someone with DP/DR say they possess free will? Would you say you possess free will?

Is the test for "having free will" simply feeling like you have it? Or saying that you have it? Does an AI that says "I am sentient. I possess free will." actually have those qualities? Do we?
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My plan, the next time someone offers me a role with unlimited PTO, is to tell HR and management before I join that I plan on taking four weeks vacation due to needing to see family overseas. If someone whines later, they were warned.
I'd offer a softer version of this. If you are capable of becoming a programmer, you're probably capable of entering a field with better prospects.

This is a slightly ambiguous claim, because a "programmer" can be such a wide range of things. You can read a book on PHP and MySql, or not read the book and say you did, and call yourself a programmer.

But if you're the sort of person who can enter a decent college (no, not elite, just a proper college), read and write well enough to get good grades in your humanities general coursework, do calculus through differential equations, and major in computer science or engineering, then I think you're probably capable of entering a field with better prospects than programming.

I don't feel quite as negative about programming as you do, in that I don't think it's necessarily a bad job or a dead end (though I do think these risks are very present in programming careers), and there are still great careers to be had in it. But yes, I do agree that people capable of doing this are probably capable of doing a lot of things, and many of those things may be better paths.
So many people still put such huge value on the "handwritten signature" part. Even though it isn't actually that strong (the digital signature from even a self-signed certificate is definitely stronger), the ceremony of having something that you need to scrawl with your fingers or a stylus/pen still matters psychologically to so many people.

(At a past job I was asked to work on a digital signature product and very much the core and just about only requirement was digital ink square that worked on an iPad. Everything else didn't matter so long as they had some bitmap of some scrawl that someone attempted with a finger or an iPad stylus.)
Understanding money laundering via real estate
Hello Hacker News, this is a site I built for my family business. However I built it in a white-label way that allows me to sell the platform for other wholesalers.
As of now, you can add items to a cart and get the pdf proposal with your custom pricing sent automatically to your email.
I know it isn't a big project nor it is pollished, but I'm happy because I shipped it
I think OP thinks about documentation of framework/language like an explanation of why/how/what for and not exactly API references. I agree with both of you, good API docs is mandatory, but also reading about advantages/disadvantages on the official website of given technology should be very easy to do.
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There is an insidious aspect with respect to Tech Workers.

You don't need to be a whistle-blower to have a toll on your life/career.

Talk too much shit about a company in Silicon Valley and you're fucked, regardless of the merits of your claims against them.

#TeflonUnicorn
>I don’t think I share your definition of “documentation”.

Sorry for not being clear. I'm not attempting to redefine "documentation".

I was answering the OP's main question: "What kind of _information_ do you look for before learning/using new tech?"

You had answered "documentation" as one of the pieces of information. I was replying that "contrarian and negative" type of information is an important supplement to "documentation" or even a higher priority than official documentation. (E.g. The contrarian perspective may highlight a showstopping issue which could override any need to even look at the official documentation.)

My hypothetical of "dream documentation" including negative info was a utopian fantasy for rhetorical entertainment. It was not a realistic prescription for authors of real documentation.
If you would have gotten a 0 then your science teachers failed you I'd say. A failed experiment is just as valid a result as a successful one if the goal is to gather data.
> because FL is a right to work state and you do not legally have to turn in a two week notice

What you're describing is called "at-will employment" and it is totally unrelated to right-to-work (which has to do with unions and collective bargaining).

At-will employment is the default everywhere in the United States unless an exception is provided by law (Florida is one of a few states with no exceptions), or if the contract states otherwise. IE, At-will is the baseline, laws and contracts can add additional requirements.

So, in other words, what you did was not legal, and they totally could have come after you for breach of contract, they just decided not to.
> For a sanctioned country to create its own crypto currency makes little sense. The west will just ban any use of that currency

Crypto advocates often make a big deal out of the idea that states cannot in practice effectively prevent or regulate use of crypto currency.
Oracle discontinued BTRFS development when they bought Sun, merged the ZFS and BTRFS team, and then fired anyone on the BTRFS team that didn't have ZFS experience.

BTRFS is basically on maintenance mode, and no one at Redhat/IBM or Ubuntu has any interest in keeping it alive. Anyone that requires HA services will not be using BTRFS.

Redhat ships with XFS as the default file system, Ubuntu ships with Ext4 as default with heavy install-time ZFS support for enterprise storage, and BTRFS is no longer being spoken of by anyone as a potential Ext5 candidate.
Hrm, you would think companies should be legally required to have a separate pool of cash for unused PTO, and transfer $$$ to their cash book as employees use them... I'm sure some already do this.
btrfs still has a lot of issues unfortunately. I tried using buildroot once and the entire filesystem kinda died with the infamous "out of space" error even though there was plenty free. Several RAID levels are also unsafe to use. After experiencing both, I trust ZFS a lot more.
Companies have been screwing with employees over vacation forever.

In the last century I worked for CBS. At the time, CBS had a policy where vacation rolled over from year to year. It was common for people to save up for a few years in order to take off for an entire month or two.

When Westinghouse bought CBS, a memo went out that the policy changed to use-it-or-lose it. The memo went out around October, so for the next two months there was a massive crush of people trying to use their accrued vacation before the end of the year.

On the plus side, a lot of the young employees and interns had to cover for the veterans, and in doing so got a lot of front-line experience they never would have anywhere else.

Then when the vets came back from vacation and quit because they were pissed they'd lost so much banked vacation time, those new employees and interns all moved up in the ranks and ended up running the joint.

(A broad generalization company-wide, but certainly a noticeable shift in the unit where I worked.)
> “you don’t -actually- have any days we really owe you so you’ll catch shade every time you take time off”

That's the idea behind it. It's a huge red flag for me.

But it looks fantastic on paper. The problem is you don't know how you'll be judged if you do take the time off. They'll never come and say "hey it looks like you took 5 weeks off this year". They'll just say "it looks like you're not realizing your full potential". So it allows for a lot more sinister manipulation and control.

It could even be coming from peers, managers, HR it doesn't matter. "Gee, so and so in on vacation... while we are slaving here at 8pm at night. - Haha. Of course he is, eye roll..." kind of stuff. And maybe the employee was having a family crisis and needed to spend time with their loved ones but it's not something they'll broadcast but people will imply various things and assume not the very best of intentions.

If the company is so darn generous, just give everyone 6 weeks off and make everyone take it.
How come JetBrains didn't raise bazillion VC dollars, while their code completion and tools like refactoring are the best option for most popular programming languages?
Snowden's escape was a near-run thing. He intended to go to Ecuador and got trapped in Russia. He's only living free now because Putin likes showing the rest of the world that the USA is just as bad as Russia. It very easily could have gone another way with Snowden never seeing the light of day again and getting tortured for the rest of his life.

That's a lot to ask of anyone, and why I think Snowden will go down as among the bravest people in history.
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> Even if that was a real "contractually promised benefit package," as in an actual contract was signed, unless you have a union, the contract is only good until the employer feels like it. If they want to change the benefits they'd just draft up another contract that doesn't have any severance and they'll make all employees sign it. Don't want to sign it? Then you're fired. Since you're fired you don't get severance, because severance is for employees who are laid off, not those who are fired for disagreeing with changes in company policies.

This is not true. They are still required to honor the previous contract through its term. Forcing someone to sign a contract that essentially voids the previous one before its original term has expired, upon threat of termination, is literally a textbook case study in law school.

> In America absent a solid union contract (that's a REAL contract, not the form an employer gives you to sign) or laws specifying otherwise, benefits are at the sole discretion of the employer. Anyone whose been at a company more than a few years has seen significant changes to benefits packages. I worked at a company that, when I had been there for years, sent a short email saying "We will no longer be matching 401(k) contributions." That was it, thousands of dollars in salary cut just like that, with a few keystrokes and ZERO dialog. I also worked at a different company who was acquired by a major multinational corporation. The new corporation make us all sign a "no side projects" agreement. Some people grumbled a bit about this but one person said she wasn't willing to sign it, so the new corporate overlords fired her.

You're confusing two completely different things (contract vs. at will, and unionized vs. non-unionized) and ascribing power to unions that they don't have. A contract with a fixed term may prevent this situation, and that's something that can happen with or without a union.
For entirely at-will employment, benefit changes can still happen with no notice (whether or not the labor force is unionized) and employees have the choice of continuing their employment or not. (The equivalent email to the one you received would read something like "The new contract agreed upon with the union no longer includes 401(k) contributions". At that point, employees still have two choices: accept the new terms or quit.
There is no such thing as an "at-will" state. At-will is the national baseline for employment, states and contracts can add additional requirements on top of it, such as mandatory notice, good-faith exeptions, implied contracts, etc.
It's worrying, because it's another indicator that journalism is fucked (BTW, BuzzFeed is known for clickbait meme-crap, but BuzzFeedNews was surprisingly serious publication).

While it was easy to dismiss failures of pre-internet publications as merely failing to adapt to the new medium, BuzzFeedNews was Internet-native, and still failed.
Fresh account for obvious reasons.

I wonder whether I "suffer" from this. It's not really suffering. I am very comfortable being a meatbag who hallucinates that they are thinking thoughts; I know that none of it is really real in the way that physical artifacts are real.

Now I have a new and better explanation for why I have visual hallucinations sometimes, particularly halos and fuzz.

For anybody else: Don't worry. You aren't controlled by any one thing. You're a colony of trillions of cells, all working together to produce a mutually-beneficial outcome.

Edit: Do I have free will? I don't think that the question makes sense. I have free will in the same way that my subatomic particles have free will [0]. I have the ability to choose and to choose not to choose, but none of that entails free will [1]. I can even say that I have free will, but that does not mean that I have free will [2]. I think that, even if free will is a thing, maybe I am not a thing which can have free will because maybe I am not a thing at all.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will_theorem

[1] https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec18.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
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My first impression: The author seems to be obsessed with Peter Thiel’s involvement with the magazine and sees everything through that lens.
Can I ask what your business model or pathway to monetization is?

Thanks for making it run locally, I can finally give it a real try now.
The idea is quite simple - crawl websites and figure out what makes them tick. Of course you're not going to enter the exact same market. No one is obligated to find a competition-free, low-hanging niche for you to occupy.
I hope rust becomes more mainstream in companies. At the moment it seems like a lot of smaller components are implemented in rust, to allow employees to get familiar with it.
Eh, I think "imposter syndrome" is a natural consequence of moving into a more selective environment and resetting your baseline estimate of your competence.

If we pretend for a moment that hiring processes are perfect methods for identifying the top X% of candidates objectively, when you are hired by a company that only hires the top 10% of candidates, when you are hired, you instantly go from being better than 90% of your cohort to being average. You might go from being in the 92nd percentile of your old cohort to the 20th percentile of your new cohort.

Sure, it's less stark when hiring processes aren't perfect and hiring criteria are fuzzy and don't oerfectly match the actual job requirements, but any time you go through a selective process it's going to happen a little.
This is nice, I'll find it really useful. It is probably more of a tutorial than a cheat sheet though
The public has the same attention span of a goldfish. The rules were never going to work the way everyone assumed.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/net-neutrality-fcc-per...

http://time.com/82409/wheeler-net-neutrality/

https://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/tom-wheeler-net-neutr...
http://time.com/74703/net-neutrality-fcc-rules-plan-angers-a...

But then 2016 and suddenly we got hit with an MIB neurolizer and Wheeler was the hero we all wanted, not the shill the lobbyists bought.
Consider: It is useful to other human organisms to install a model of free will into you and make you believe that it is a thing that you have.
> The same guy rarely used vacation time before, but was pretty much unavailable every other weekend after that.

Oh no, somebody setting boundaries and not working weekends? Unacceptable!

It's certainly possible there were other issues, but to me this sounds like sour grapes for not having the courage to pull off such a genius move yourself.
i'm not sure if you're trolling..but i'll bite. buzzfeed has done a lot of good, real journalism. the trashy, click-bait articles in a way is funding good journalism, which, if you purely consume buzzfeed through fb or something like that...you might think that is all there is.
besides, you should read the article, not just the headline. as ben addresses your issue in the opening paragraph.
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> The sync, store and search ship sailed long ago.

Perhaps. But that ship appears quite capable of generating well over a billion dollars a year in revenue, so...
Work ethic, really? How does being more susceptible to exploitation play into that?

Indian workers can go on strike and vote in elections. Not so in Red China.
I think the website seems pretty good. Although, I don't find any codes in your portfolio.
Pinwheel: A highly opinionated fork of the Ranvier MUD engine
China's AI industry is propped by 3 companies
Saudi Arabia Slashes Exposure to Tesla
It wasn't injection per session, but liveoverflow did a video about something similar (breaking an infinite loop with voltage glitching): https://youtube.com/watch?v=6Pf3pY3GxBM
Yes, you're wrong. Go back and read the line you wrote (I quoted it for you in the previous post). You said brakes are a consumable, and you kinda implied that EV brakes don't even have fluid(!). Now you're admitting that it does need to be changed, which is exactly what I pointed out you were wrong about. This isn't "pedantry", it's a pretty major operation that has to be done regularly (as you said, roughly every 3 years for most cars I think; brake systems are all about the same these days and use the same fluids. My Mazda has a very similar requirement as those you mentioned.) It's not a hard job, but it does take some time and shop labor is expensive so it's not an especially cheap job.

>The brake system on an Electric Vehicle will require the same or less maintenance than an equivalent Internal Combustion Engine vehicle.

This is correct. You don't need to change the pads/rotors nearly as often, but the fluid still needs maintenance.

>And Electric Vehicle will require less maintenance overall compared to the equivalent Internal Combustion Engine vehicle.

Yes, of course, I never said otherwise. But it's important to remember that "less maintenance" doesn't equal "no maintenance". A lot of the systems on an EV are the same as current cars, and maintenance/repair will be little different: wheels/tires/bearings, suspension/ball joints/struts, wipers/washers, brakes, HVAC.
They've even put Jetbrains' IDE at the bottom of the "Staircase of intelligence" in their little infographic...
I'm not sure if developers familiar with those tools can take this company seriously (especially given what they've done previously.)

I wonder what their look on say, IntelliJ, is.
At the very least, when job hunting it helps to have useful labels to hang your hat on. Plus the social aspects: it's very hard to answer the question "so what do you do?".
Are you able to disable auto-playing trailers, or are you just using the web interface or a smartphone/tablet that don't have this feature in the first place?

I have a recent AppleTV, which doesn't have any way to disable auto-playing trailers. Same for my previous STB (Roku). This is a somewhat new feature, so some older STBs and Smart TVs don't have it, but that's just because they can't be updated to the latest version of the Netflix app.

You can disable auto-play next episode across all interfaces and devices in the settings on netflix.com. I just wish there was an equivalent switch for trailers.
What is a basic income? [video]
I go to a co-working space once a month. I get less immediate work done that day, but the discussions we get in to are occasionally-term helpful.
> The risk is in trying to keep compatible with the Linux Kernel, when not part of the Linux Kernel dev team.

But... that was already the case.
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If you are suggesting an employee is obliged to give two weeks notice, you are incorrect. That is not how it works in the United States. We do not have forced labor.
The private entities I was speaking about are the auctionning registrar, the public good is the right to serve .ro domain (which should benedit Romanians at large).

Also, presumably the additional cost on the .ro ccTLD from the bots hammering the servers is burdening the Romanian citizen, and the benefits are going to the offending registrars...
Jetbrains has put a lot of engineering effort into building really great tools. They're really wonderful!

They took more of the Atlassian path of no/low-VC and slower organic growth starting in the early 2000's, so they've had a lot of time to build the "snowball" effect.
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That's about the ABI to user-land, not about internal-to-the-kernel interfaces.
I forgot to mention that my Blu-Ray player also has an Ethernet port and a bunch of "apps" available, and probably has the ability to report back on Blu-Rays viewed, but I don't use it for that reason (and I have better devices for apps, such as Roku.)
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