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Survival instinct is related to hope, but it isn't the same thing. Survival instinct prevents me from putting my hand in a blender, because I know it'll hurt. Hope makes me work harder in my job, care for those that I love, and look forward to tomorrow. Those things don't neatly boil down to survival instinct.
I'm always tempted to answer this one with "Where you're sitting, asking better interview questions".

The only thing curbing that temptation is the risk that the interviewer might call my bluff and railroad me into a recruiter position.
This is a ridiculously false dichotomy. Plenty of folks in the midwest/south/appalachia/dakotas/etc. don't give a shit about their communities, and plenty of people in dense coastal cities care deeply about the people around them. And vice versa (as you noted).

Weekend (or, anyways, short) vacations to Paris are a thing. On the other hand, they are also super cheap historically speaking (< $600 east cost <-> Paris, stay in a hostel and it's < $800 total). My weekend trip to Europe was $500 cheaper than what a friend from Neosho spent on a pontoon and a rental at TR the same summer! We both got a lifelong dream that summer (me: paris; him: boat & lake house boozefest).

Also, I have back issues from sitting all day and he has back issues from standing all day. He should wear a brace. I should get a standing desk. We are both too dumb/lazy to change and will probably both regret it in 10 years.

So. Rich laborers spend too much on stupid stuff and all humans have health issues. News as 11.

Furthermore, the modality of caring differs, and this causes a blindness to others' generosity. The average rich person in SF who cares about their neighbors is extremely unlikely to exhibit that care via churches, but might take in a homeless LGBT youth and donate 20K+ to various humanitarian/environmental orgs. Similarly, the average rich person in rural GA who cares about their neighbors is extremely unlikely to exhibit that care by voting for progressive policies or by offering to shelter LGBTQ youth, but might donate 20K+ to their church every year.

Those groups are invisible to each other because they each think of "civic engagement" in terms of their own preferred modality, not realizing that there are other ways to help.

(Tangentially, people from the "interior" refer to themselves as "midwesterners", "appalachian", "southerners", "mountain states", or, more commonly, just by their state or even region within their state. I've literally never heard anyone from anywhere outside of Boston/NYC/SF refer to that part of the country as the "interior". Where in the "interior" do people actually refer to themselves as being from the "interior"?!?!)
> but is harmless to humans and animals.

> harmlessness to livestock and humans would have to be further investigated

"appears harmless" would be more appropriate.
This is a great game, I will add it to my home screen. It plays nicely in the browser on an old iPhone, mine. What did you use to make Linjat? Would you shatter the technologies? Any github?
Germ theory has basis in science. IQ tests do not.
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If your time horizon is short (months to a couple of years) going all-in with a vendor can work quite well. Over longer time horizons (several years or more), it's often not so great. Forgetting about the costs involved (i.e. they know they've got you) and the fact that if that one vendor ever becomes truly dominant that improvements will slow to a crawl (i.e. they know they've got everyone), there is a very real risk of whatever technologies you are depending on disappearing as their business needs will always outweigh yours. Feature velocity tends to evaporate in the face of a forced overhaul or even rewrite.
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Seems like this would have an unintended affect on the significant amount of Japanese tourism there. While on the decline, about 30% of Japanese men and 10% of Japanese women smoke [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_in_Japan
Serious question for all on this thread: have you personally encountered a deal-breaking issue while actually implementing a significant application on "Lambda and serverless"? Whether that's lock-in, scaling issues, cost, performance, or whatever. Has there been something that's caused you to go "yeah, no, this was a bad idea; should've rolled my own infra."

I'm not asking this disingenuously; I legitimately want to know.
One would assume that Facebook's internal protocols are constantly upgraded to enable new features and those upgrades would be much slower if industry politics got in the way.
For me there are two critical questions I ask of a candidate.

1. I tell them the story about a massive screw up in my career (its funny) about how I thought I was getting fired about being frank about it... etc. I then ask "do you have a story about a major screw up in your career. The answer should say a lot. Dealing with crisis, dealing with mistakes, can you laugh about traumatic things (a great coping mechanism as a programer). I'm looking for insight into you in a professional setting. There have been occasions that this one question takes up the BULK of my allotted time and has on occasion gone over.

2. Can you read and talk about a piece of code GIVEN to you. The bulk of the battle for most devs is READING existing code and trying to figure out where to fit fixes in, or how to integrate what they are doing into a larger, standing system. The provided sample should have errors, room for improvement and plenty of ambiguity where the reader has to make assumptions or ask questions.
When a foreigner lands in the US, the first thing she'd notice are how big things are - cars, super markets, the amount of food they give in restaurants, the size of soda cups, popcorn "buckets" etc. Americans like their big cars. I've heard them make fun of small cars as "toys" many times. It would be interesting to see how these tiny cars are received in a market that is used to having pretty much everything big.
Thats what so many miss in a tech company IPO.

Slack has built a business model off commodity tech that was around for decades. It has happy customers who continue to spend money with them and a plan to continue growing their revenue with more happy customers.

Personally I just see it as a refresh of yammer or a business focused discord but at the end of the day someone in procurement is signing checks for Slack.
I'm the creator of Price Hipster, which you linked to. It's not just that pretty much no one disables JavaScript. It's also that the website is very interactive and responsive and would have to be designed very differently to avoid JavaScript. Much more data would be consumed if every action resulted in a call to the server and a fully rendered page returned each time, and the website would be a lot less snappy and less nice to use.
Such things have happened: https://www.slashgear.com/steam-on-linux-bug-can-delete-all-...

The problem is that shell is so sloppy it's hard to know what will happen. Of course, that's not unique to a new mechanism for navigating directories. It's scary stuff no matter what.
The former administration agreed and made efforts in this direction including publishing code on Drupal.org:
https://www.drupal.org/u/whitehouse

On a sidenote, apparently the new administration scrapped it for a brochure Wordpress site. Funny discussion here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/drupal/comments/7kw7eu/whitehousego...
You've just offered the best example of vendor lock-in on this entire thread.
Where can I read about this language?
The federal source code policy [0] gives an exemption for national security or mission requirement. So in the US there are valid reasons why CIA and FBI shouldn’t be totally open. But for everything else the directive is to default to open.

[0] sourcecode.cio.gov
Careful, if the page refreshes then you'll lose all your options!

I did like quite a few of them too, even without giving a slogan or any keywords.
You can definitely build a fully functional web app using just serverless. For an example, take a look at https://acloud.guru . Where I work, we almost exclusively use serverless, and I have found it to be incredibly reliable, and way more hands-off than a docker deployment.
Smoking declined from 20% of the US population to 15% from 2005 to 2015 so the efforts are making an impact.
yeah, but I'll never give up on cryptography.
Angular + Firebase/Firestore
stoicism I see

I think that's too cynical for me these days; we love relationships; it's just that our culture didn't nurture our nature
Just about every modern car cuts fuel when you're engine braking.
The infrastructure, or interfaces is where the lock-in comes in. Each non-portable interface adds another binding, so it's not as easy as swapping out the provider as the OP pointed out, once you've been absorbed into the ecosystem of non-portable interfaces. You have to abstract each service out to be able to swap out providers.

If you use open source interfaces, or even proprietary interfaces that are portable, it's easier to take your app with you to the new hosting provider.

The non-portable interfaces are crux of the matter. If you could run lambda on Google, Azure or your own metal, folks wouldn't feel so locked-in.
Ok, fair point.

But as someone already mentioned, would we want someone like Elon Musk to not work?
That’s awesome! I’d love to try it; details in an upcoming blog post?
If IQ isn't relevant to the parent's comment, then it shouldn't have been brought up. If it is relevant, then there should exist some proof that IQ actually matters.

The parent is making the claim that, because of IQ, certain segments of the population are at a fundamental disadvantage when it comes to STEM careers. For this to be anything more than pure poppycock, there needs to be proof that IQ measures anything actually relevant to the success of those jobs. And not only relevant, but measures something that cannot be trained, cannot be explained by differences in education of astronomy majors vs home economics majors, something that fundamentally bars elementary education majors from succeeding in electrical engineering.

Prove that IQ measures anything that says an accountant could not have been otherwise trained to practice chemistry because they're 10 IQ points short. If IQ measures anything relevant to the job you perform, there has to be some proof.
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Style 2 paints is pretty sophisticated. This thing not so much. I feel like they just took some model and trained it on a specific dataset and called it "new"
Muted autoplay is unblockable because it's equivalent to using an image that specifies `Content-Type: multipart/x-mixed-replace` and constantly streams new image frames to the client.
When Ted Turned tried “democratizing” old classic B&W movies he was made fun of, a lot, not by the audience/viewers, but by the professional critics who claimed he was ruining the intrinsic art of those movies, the implication was he was degenerating them.

Sure, the colors were not quite right (I think they improved them after initial missteps), but he was a man ahead of his time with his vision in that regard. Few would bat an eye today.
Call me crazy but we should deprecate gif animations.
Financial modeling of electricity pricing . It's only useful in grid regions governed by Independent System Operators with available market data, but I can see a lot of use here, not because it's good at. predicting where the lines, are, but because it gives a model of what portions of the grid are actively utilized and which are not.
If you're using bash, there's a usable help builtin.

help
help if
help function

etc.
According to this line of reasoning, all the code for our nuclear weapons systems should be open source.

Beware the law of unintended consequences - it’ll bite you!

(For the record, I agree with the sentiment, but it’s hard to implement without causing undesirable effects.)
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As I said. I can run the Node/Express lambda anywhere without changing code.

But, I could still take advantage of hosted Aurora (MySQL/Postgres), DocumentDB (Mongo), ElasticCache (Memcached/Redis) or even Redshift (Postgres compatible interface) without any of the dreaded “lock-in”.
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Fear not, petrol direct injection basically gives you the same amount of soot as any ol' non-DPF TDI engine :)
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I'm afraid of recommending psychiatry's shotgun approach of throwing tricyclic antidepressant meds at someone until they subjectively feel an improvement in their quality of being from their baseline depressed state. Getting there requires taking all sorts of serotonin/dopaminergic etc neurotransmitter flooding/inhibiting drugs that made me feel like a lifeless zombie that I only recovered from by quitting cold turkey and enforcing a strict routine of eating clean, 7-8 hrs of sleep, mediation, hydrating, and minimal tech distractions

Quitting cold turkey put me through withdrawal hell, Google "brain zaps" if you want to read up on what that torture feels like.

I think in the future we will look back at the field of psychiatry medication today like it was medieval/primitive times.

With that being said, if it has the possibility to help you then by all means try it, but don't be afraid to jump ship if you can find a natural way to rebalance your brain. If only I knew that path existed before getting on meds.
case by case, maybe one is not directly linked to the other.

however in the mindset of ATT and telco management, all these things are linked. It's like when Microsoft supported Apple or soft pedalled some of it's legal case against linux in the late 90s and early 2000s - it wasn't directly linked to the government suing them for bundling a web browser circa late 90s, but in the management of Microsoft, they had to gauge their decisions against whether the government might object to their behavior, essentially whether their "brand" with the government regulators would be damaged if they, say, systematically obliterated linux the way they did Dr Dos in the late 80s/early 90s.
Vendor lock in can be expensive, but spreading yourself across vendors can also be expensive. There are lots of events that are free if you stay in the walled garden, but the second you starting pulling gigs & gigs of data from AWS S3 into GCP (or whatever), that can get pricey real fast.

In general I agree with you. In practice, the more practical approach may be to focus on making more money & not fussing too much w/ vendor costs & whatever strategy you choose to use. It's easy to pay a big vendor bill when there's a bigger pile of cash from sales.
It’s made in Wisconsin likely from a host of Chinese made parts.[1]

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There doesn't have to be absolute proof, just decent evidence. While it's absolutely true that IQ tests aren't perfect (the very idea that intelligence can be measured on a single axis is suspect), there is plenty of evidence that shows correlation between IQ and success in certain fields.

If all good accountants or chemists have relatively high IQs, it doesn't prove that a good IQ is necessary, but it certainly provides some evidence. It's classic causation/correlation, but in this case, there are mountains of evidence of correlation.
But if someone files a Freedom of Information requests, that forces the process into motion, right?

(If there were more people filing request, I wonder if the internal procedure would be made less painful out of necessity...)
That's awful. I hope that never comes to the phone app (we use Chromecasts, no TV UI). It does happen on the Coming Soon page, which is not promising.

We pay for Netflix to bypass this sort of noise.
A third party app can access FB servers directly and scrape content as needed. No law prevents this. You'd just be using a custom user agent.
Different groups of green plants have significantly different photosynthetic cycles (notably C3, C4, and CAM) which respond very differently to changes in CO2 concentration. For C4 plants (about 3% of plants) the current CO2 concentration is at the point of saturation. C3 plants (85% of plant species, including most trees and grasses, and staple crops such as wheat) have rates of photosynthesis proportional to CO2 concentration to about 1000ppm or so. (The desert plants you mentioned use CAM cycle, but overall their contribution to CO2 consumption is small.)
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I work at Google and conduct interviews there. There is no pool of questions. Interviewers are invited, but not required to share their questions with everyone else, but not all do, and there's no approval process for them. I don't know if what you're saying ever was true, but it certainly hasn't been for the past ~5 years or so.
> You say "OMG how haven't we fixed this, it must mean we don't care" while proposing no solutions, for a problem that might not have a solution. Britain still has terrorist attacks (vans, acid, knives) and that's after banning carrying a fucking butter knife. Humans will always find ways to kill each other, (checkout improvised prison weapons sometime) let's not go too crazy hunting down one of the smallest sources.

Britain, and specifically London, seems to rival Paris and Brussels in terms of gang violence, but you still get a lot less dead people than in the US. You're suggesting there might not be a solution, yet practically no Western state except the US has this problem in the first place.
I can second everything sjjshzvuiajhz is saying. Approach people with humility and positivity and they will care surprisingly little if you're weird or socially awkward. People don't necessarily need conversational poetry - they just want to feel safe, at ease.

These kinds of things aren't skills that it takes 100,000 hours to learn. They're "habits of mind". Adopting them is more like learning to get up on time or learning to eat well, than learning to play an instrument - once you've decided what it is you're doing, it's more about persistence than skill. You have good days and bad days, but if you stoically keep at it, you'll be rewarded.

Of course, if you talk to people all the time, you'll get better at the whole conversation thing quite naturally, over a long time. But it's best not to stress about that.

Humility and positivity.

(And in fact, challenging your brain with music you don't normally listen to is far from impossible; quite the reverse, it's one more habit of a healthy, plastic mind!)
> Google chief financial officer Ruth Porat pointed to sizable jumps in compensation for Other Bets employees and executives, with the total stock-based compensation now amounting to nearly $500 million for this past quarter.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/4/18211177/alphabet-google-e...

!!???
Oh, I can think of a dozen or so ways it MIGHT work, but I'm curious about how they actually did it.

One way would be to make sure the amount of rat poison is precisely calibrated so that the rats will get to it first and not leave a lot behind for other animals to consume.
What about hybrid cloud? Wasn't that supposed to solve the problem?
I would assume that in high-density areas, having a smaller car that's easier to control and park would be an advantage over the bigger cars. Fuel cost is also a factor with smaller cars usually being more efficient, especially in urban traffic conditions.

I would expect these electric cars would probably compete with these smaller models in dense urban areas.
No particular reason other than I'm used to redux.

My gut reaction when it came out was "it seems rather unwieldy compared to
redux to have to manage client-side application state through graphql", but my gut reaction could be wrong, and I haven't actually tried apollo-link-state so this isn't really an informed opinion. Notably though, it feels think graphql is great for graph data, but pointless overkill for most global application state which isn't really graph data.
Obviously, you don't. The point is that it's your and their decision to make, not Facebook's or the competitor's.
My theory is they're bad at customer support because they spend nothing to support us. That's why AT&T, Comcast etc can support ~100 million people by phone, Amazon support a multiple of that by live chat and Google can't even reply to email.
Just because Google Cloud doesn't break out its revenue, doesn't mean its a sign of trouble.

It makes complete sense, they're obviously in the third position. Why put additional shareholder pressure that can put an enterprise in a position where they're incentivized towards short-term gains vs. the long play that this is..
I'd recommend selling some stuff.
Seriously, just go find some things in your basement and sell them on Craigslist. Buy some other stuff and re-sell it. Have some extra concert tickets? Flip those and pay attention to the way the value changes as you approach the concert date. Find something on sale at Target? Buy one and flip it on eBay.

The point it to make sales a "game" for pocket money. You'll never make a ton, but you'll gain valuable experience about writing marketing blurbs, interacting with buyers/sellers, negotiation, the time value of money and products, etc.

As an example: there is, right now, a perfectly working portable air conditioner on Craigslist for free. If I felt like picking it up and storing it until summer I could easy get $100. The seasonal inverse is true for Christmas trees.

...etc etc etc...
Does this assumption hold for large, production-ready, applications?
And at 1/13 the value of a company that gives you cancer (Altria, $92B).

Capitalism profits from giving people what they want. There are more people that want to chat with others from their computer than there are folks who want to put stuff into space. There are quite a few more people who want to ruin their health, rasp up their voice, make their clothes & apartment stink, and give themselves cancer than want to chat with others from their computer.
>Weekend (or, anyways, short) vacations to Paris are a thing. On the other hand, they are also super cheap historically speaking (< $600 east cost <-> Paris, stay in a hostel and it's < $800 total). My weekend trip to Europe was $500 cheaper than what a friend from Neosho spent on a pontoon and a rental at TR the same summer! We both got a lifelong dream that summer (me: paris; him: boat & lake house boozefest).

Try repeating this statement to a friend who is deciding between groceries or gas to get to work this week. You really can't comprehend what life is like on the minimum wage of $15k.
For one script (deploy), that's 148 characters I don't have to type. Repeatedly, as changes are made. Just `gulp deploy` and it's done. Beyond that, I'm more comfortable in bash, so I'd like to not waste that effort by moving to something else.
2018 Nissan Leaf owner here driving with e-pedal, essentially a single pedal driving from movement to complete stop. I've driven from summer conditions down to -10dC (14dF) conditions.

For winter, the car is on squishier winter tires. This confuses the traction control unit enough to cut out regen on full pedal lift off and switch over to caliper brakes, still single pedal. The car still slows and comes to a complete stop, but deceleration is much stronger with regen. I've adapted to no longer fully lift off the pedal, expecting a more gentle deceleration, providing a more consistent stopping distance.

The brake pedal still responds normally and it gets used in surprise situations.

Even at -10dC (14dF), the regen operates similar compared to warmer temps with the Leaf. At -30dC (-22dF) the battery heater supposedly kicks in, but have not taken the car into those kinds of conditions. I would think it's a software update on the Tesla to kick on the battery warmers in colder climates for consistent regen. Or software update to engage the brakes when regen isn't available.