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>he quits or dies you hire another one.

And in the weeks/months until you found one ?

It's not like babies appear over night, you have months to prepare.
My Nokia 7.1 has monthly updates guaranteed for two years, is fast with a decent camera and has all the apps I need. Battery life and build quality are fantastic. All for about a quarter of the price of an iPhone XR. Not sure I agree with you there.
Thanks, I've been trying to put into words what bugs me about reddit so much. Sure, the dark UI patterns are a thing, and the extra ads are not great... but it's all to be expected. But you phrased it very well: first growing a community around a set of values (remember they were even open source once?) and then, when the opportunity comes to make money, do everything humanly possible to go against those values.
Physically threatening a security researcher for finding vulnerabilities in a product you sell is a big no-no, regardless of whether you find it to be "assault" or not. Personally, I found the background into the vulnerabilities the researcher found to be interesting.
the point of perks is to attract talent. if you want 10 kids it'll take you about 20 years. if the company got someone to stay for 20 years, the perk worked

and no one has any incentives to make things better for working parents. the only incentives are to make things better for top talent. it just so happens that more experienced people tend to be that top talent. and more experienced people are older, and older people tend to have more kids. the company should try to make things better for top talent and if that is being more flexible on schedules, or vacation, then they should do it (and most companies do both of these)
> not on a single person, but a single person's work or expertise

But this is true for literally everyone in the company, including the owner. It's a rare business that couldn't change ownership and still thrive under the right circumstances. In fact, there's a whole day of the week that has a nickname because people do this so often ("M&A Monday")

Your "someone with equivalent skills" condition is equivalent to the "under the right circumstances" condition.

So, I'm not sure I see how this is a response to:

> If the company is utterly reliant on a single person, that person is either an equity owner, or should be, and the owner is taking advantage of them.
What a rollercoaster. Can't believe what I just read.
- Doubly linked lists.

- Cocoa delegates that keep references to some parent of the objects that they're delegates of.

- Some event listeners (in the same way as delegates).

I wouldn't say it's "rare". It popped up pretty often for me when I was writing Objective C.
Apple's retail chief, Angela Ahrendts, is leaving
>Cunningham's Law states "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
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The next fifty years – EWD1243a
Buzzfeed News is a far cry from normal Buzzfeed. They are more of a traditional news organization. They have actually gotten quite a few awards for their investigative journalism including being finalists for two Pulitzers:

https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-buzzfeed-news

https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/chris-hamby-buzzfeed-news
Serious question - why get so bothered by it? If he's old enough to be thinking about floating point numbers, he's definitely heard the word, and it's not especially gratuitous in this instance. Might be a good opportunity to discuss how word choice is dependent on context.
This has not been a shift, or at least recently. I started working there in 2012 and the focus was always on hiring people that can actually interact with humans, rather than nerds that know everything.

Its much easier to teach product knowledge than team interaction skills.
Outside of tech companies, 2 weeks of paid paternal leave is pretty good.
Most employers of high-skilled/paid workers in Norway pay the gap between your current salary and what the government pays.
It is more than that, however, both in authorial intent and without it.
> This is despite being pretty ban-happy in general about topics they don't like. So now they've got the worst of a censorship-heavy platform and the worst of a censorship-free platform.

I think you have to separate the admins, who are reddit employees, and the subreddit moderators, who are mostly not.

The admins are ultimately accountable to the CEO, who is accountable to the board and, by extension, the investors. The admins want to maximise traffic, because that maximises their ability to monetise the users. A certain degree of controversial content is actually good for that as long as it remains below the threshold where you start losing advertisers (see 4chan).

Meanwhile, the moderators are usually volunteers, but there are a few very active "powermods" (or groups thereof) who have control over one or more large default subs. This has allowed them to carve out their own personal fiefdoms. Some of them are abusing this power to enforce their own idea of how things should work, or to push their ideology and narratives. Some others (like the infamous GallowBoob) have even found ways to monetise their influence by getting paid to promote content for 3rd parties without disclosing that fact. This often goes hand in hand with abusing their moderator privileges in order to increase visibility of their own posts (e.g. by removing highly upvoted posts from users, so their own posts can take the top spot in that sub).

This is a real problem, but reddit are mostly unwilling to intervene unless there is a large degree of external pressure, like we saw with the "creepshot" subs that got banned in 2013 after the media picked up on their existence and the one user behind a lot of them.
Just as competently written, and also facile and shallow, as I remember from 30 years ago when Bill Buckley ran the show. How do they do it?
You got my smile ;). Also in Germany its no problem since all we do is sausages.

Wonder why a burger so different that the person making it cannot be on parental leave for a year.
Outsource it to a contractor / lawyers office or whatever you did before?

As in my other response, you have months to prepare a solution.
Not this self-centered, ignorant complaint again.

Even if this time really is 100% wasted, it's not your wasted time, so it's none of your business anyway. Open source devs don't owe your their time, and you're not entitled to tell them what to work on.

But the time isn't wasted, in any case. If existing solutions met people's needs the alternatives wouldn't have been created. A huge project like a desktop manager or a Linux distribution doesn't get spun up on a whim because somebody doesn't like a desktop background, and it's telling that that's the only difference the author notices.
The Elephant in the Brain - Hidden motives in everyday life
(Kevin Simler & Robin Hanson)

Finally human behaviour makes perfect sense.
A lot of daycare has a start age for kids. Our daycare it's 3 months old. So our 2nd son was in the same daycare as our older son after a few months. A lot of daycare providers also provide a discount for 2 kids. 10% isn't unheard of.

That said the cost of this care is astronomical. We've seen places that are 20K per child and others that are 10K per child. The range can be even larger within the same town, not just metro area.

That cost is in part because a teacher can only watch 4 kids from ages 3(mo) - 18 mo, 6 kids from 18 mo-3 year, and 8 from 3-5. Or something like that (state dependent) Costs also go down as the kids get older. Presumably because it's an hourly rate per child being watched and as you can take on more kids you can charge more per teacher.

https://www.daycare.com/california/state51.html

I feel tremendously for any single parent who has to send their children to preschool. Some places do have free daycare, I think Washington DC is on that list from 2-5 which is awesome.
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Sampling bias would probably fit.
There are many people, like a younger version of myself, who think it wrong to advocate for your own needs and wants. And who are smart enough to realize that every "need" truly is a want when you take a large enough perspective. And that holds them back from expressing themselves. The Fountainhead is essential reading for anyone who thinks in that way.

On the other hand, for well-adjusted folks, taking the book literally, is a recipe for overcompensating.
Beginner's guide to digital marketing
I mean it is already ona number of Dells. If Canonical and Steam focused their efforts they could produce a reasonable offering. I wish Steam would not focus on an entire Distro and just focus on making a specific distros underlying OS usable on plenty of hardware. AMD had an opportunity to work with Steam and Canonical to plant itself as a serious Linux competitor to Nvidia too.
Thanks!

1) I know basically nothing about patents, grants and licenses, so I can't comment there.

2) There are transforms to help minify lit-html templates, like https://github.com/asyncLiz/rollup-plugin-minify-html-litera... . See https://github.com/web-padawan/awesome-lit-html for more

3) lit-html requires objects with state and behaviors. Seems a perfect fit for classes. We usually get feedback that the source is very readable. I don't think there's any tension between the implementation using classes and the API surface being functional.
I have a naive question.

All these moderators do spend considerable time and effort on reddit.

And now reddit is going public, do the moderators get paid going forward? why would someone want to volunteer for a profit making company?
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Your questions are all valid but please remember Canada is a real country and business do exist with this law. It's not an hypothetical scenario. Same exists in other European countries.

What do you want out of life is a great question, I prefer the more social view of the world Canada has, even if I am paid less than in the individualist culture of US.
Good for them. I hope working for P&G enables them to do everything they are planning at scale.
More to the point, there is no disincentive for convicting an innocent person unless the victim can prove that the prosecutor was acting in bad faith and has the resources to mount a lawsuit. It is an extremely hard case to win, and even if they do win the government is punished (via monetary judgement), not the prosecutor.

If prosecutors were punished for every conviction that is later overturned then they might be more reluctant to push for conviction on flimsy fabricated evidence.
> A lot of enterprises, operators and organizations block or rate-limit UDP traffic

That was my first thought, and the following seem to be assuming that companies will decide to change their policy.
But many public WiFi block UDP traffic, are they going to change their policy? Are the people in charge of it even aware about it? (Think coffee shops, restaurants, hotels, ...)
Are we going to have websites supporting legacy protocols ("virtually forever") in order to build a highly available internet?

Also, ISPs in some countries have not been UDP-friendly. I'm thinking about China mainly, where UDP traffic if being throttled and often blocked (connection shutdown) if the volume of traffic is consequent - I assume they apply this policy to block fast VPNs.
Are they going to change their policy? Worst scenario here, would be to see a new http-like protocol coming out in China, resulting in an even larger segmentation of the internet
I think it's important to keep in mind that attitudes around death and killing vary widely. In liberal society today many equate killing an animal to violent murder. By implication, doing so for practical reasons (like food) to thus be even worse: a kind of craven, mercenary murder-for-hire which is deeply immoral.

That mindset does not leave much room to interpret killing as anything but hateful and evil. The animal does not want to die any more than you or I would, and thus making it die is deeply wrong.

But for much of human history, killing animals was considered a fundamentally different act from killing a human. (Heck, killing humans was also considered much more acceptable in certain situations.)

If you spend time around hunters or farmers, they have much more complex relationship with animals than most urban dwellers do. The latter tend to have a simplified view that animals are sort like dumb, well-meaning people in animal costumes. The former respect that we have many things in common with animals, but also many differences. Eacn animal has a complex role in our society that has aspects of being material property, a natural resource, and a living thinking being.

In an urban environment, the only killing you are likely to experience is violent acts in movies and violent attacks between humans. Out in nature, you experience a greater range of ways that animals physically interact. And, if you spend time with farmers, you understand what it means to both care for and kill the same animal, to give it both a good life and a good death.

It is obviously not morally wrong for a wolf to eat a chicken. While we humans may "know better" and choose to not do that, we are also quite closely related to wolves. The chicken has a right to live a complete chicken life, and we also have some right to live a complete life as an omnivorous primate with the sharp teeth and stereoscopic vision of a predator.

There is no cognitive dissonance in killing an animal for food as long as you are willing to accept that animals are different from humans in some important ways.
My employer (in the US), and many others, have begun offering equal parental leave (including for adoption) for exactly this reason. It helps limit the initiative for discrimination by treating people of all genders and sexualities as (more) equal. I think we get 22 weeks/year, which is certainly better than average.
Great great book. I need to re-read it.
> here's how [countries where the native birth rate is pretty much 0 or 1 babies]

Most of the West is below 2 and the world is now at 2.5 average. And one of the main factors helping reduce it is .. the availability of employment outside of parenting.

It's not unusual to employ people on 1-year fixed contracts as maternity cover.
It is really easy to observe the performance benefit of QUIC in a congested datacenter network. In the face of loss, QUIC tail latency is dramatically better than TCP tail latency. This is mainly due to TCP's 200ms minimum retransmit time; a single dropped packet will add at least 200ms to the request time (modulo tail loss probing which can lower this to ~20ms in many cases). When your request service time is 10µs this makes a huge difference.
Why Fears of Fake News Are Overhyped
Grabbing someone by the clothes like that? That's assault. Plain and simple. I'm sorry that the assault wasn't more violent?
Then surely you just don't subscribe to that subreddit. I don't like the Trumpy subreddits and their horribleness, but, sadly, I can't see why I should stop them.
I'm in canada and there is an actual problem. I know of a lawfirm that suffered through a new hire. She had one kid, took the leave and then was pregnant with another within months of returning. The nasty part was that she made is known she intended on leaving the firm after the second kid. She did then leave. The firm effectively paid her for two years only to have her then walk out the door.

Women should get the time. I have no issue with them, and men too, taking the time. But given modern family planning, pregnancies are most often not a surprise. I don't like seeing an employee who plans and executes a multi-year campaign to extract as much money as possible from a program with the goal of then walking away once the tap runs dry.

There is no answer. Employers cannot interfere with family matters. Patents get the legally mandated leave. And they are free then to walk away. It only gets horrible when people start to leverage the program beyond the original purpose.
It takes days to turn around an NDA. If months have passed, the vendor is obviously stalling.
That whole scene perplexes me. They're still obsessed with their 10bit h.264 videos which just don't even play on a Roku or smart TV.

I've been using x265 for my personal rips for about two years now.
I've not used Pijul, but I used Darcs — which Pijul is essentially an improved clone of — for half a decade, and I assume it's roughly the same.

The patch model is incredible. Think of "git cherry-pick". Imagine you could use that instead of "git merge" or "git rebase" for all your work. Imagine that every time you cherry-picked, it would tell you which additional commits you'd need, and then pick them for you. And that when you merged your heavily cherry-picked branch back into the mainline, it just worked. That's Pijul/Darcs.

One doesn't have to understand the "theory of patches" to use Pijul/Darcs. As a user, you just work with changes, just like Git. But the UX is much simpler than Git — in a good way.

I remember switching from Darcs to Git back in 2008 or so. It was like switching out a sleek spaceship [] for an old rusty, clanking pickup truck. Git has gotten better over the years, but ultimately, I think Github was the killer app, not Git. Going back technical merits alone, Darcs and Mercurial "should" have won that battle.

[] Albeit one that occasionally choked on its dark matter fuel for mysterious reasons. That alone contributed to a large part of the decline of Darcs. Apparently this is a solved problem in Pijul.
> How do you manage in Canada?

If you're truly a world class company you probably move the company to the US where the policies are more sensible. Or pay Canadian employees much less than the US.

Oh that happens already?
Hmm. Your reply has left me even more confused about the nomenclature. Oh well, I guess it doesn't matter if I actually understand what these names mean or not.
> Wine is probably the most extreme example as there's a heavy push to equate fancy (expensive) with tasty but very often the 2 don't correlate.

I would say the poster you're replying to would agree. And while it's true that price is largely unrelated to quality for wine, in blind taste tests, professional sommeliers performing a blind taste test do significantly better than chance when it comes to determining grape variety and country of provenance.[1] Which is to say that there are subtle differences of flavor from wine to wine that are detectable. But again, this is far from saying that expensive wines are better than cheap wines.

[1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/05/17/think-wi...
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It's surely doable in big organizations but small businesses it's an overwhelming cost even if the government pays the salary of the worker on a leave (the only way it can really work).
Maybe the answer to that problem is that really important employees who make a lot of money shouldn't be hired as normal workers but as contractors. Something like: if you get 3x more average salary then you are important but you only get paid if you work and standard protections don't apply. If you get a normal salary standard protections apply but then we will hopefully be able to find replacement for you at reasonable cost.
It would be nice if I at least don't nee to re-hire you after covering big costs of getting your replacement up to speed.

If I am looking for 3rd programmer in my 2 person small company I will not risk hiring a young woman as getting a new employee to the stage where they contribute value is a huge cost. If I am hiring a cleaning lady or social media specialist then I won't have problems because I will easily find the replacement on the market and they can be productive from day one.
If you think it's immoral, think again. I have responsibilities towards my family to provide for them. I won't take risk which can ruin my source of income for the sake of someone's children. What is immoral is forcing employers to cover that risk.
The lack of hardware support in my home theater ecosystem makes AV1 a non-starter for me.
Apache Openwhisk https://openwhisk.apache.org. it's open source and can run on any cloud platform. It will run your serverless apps. You'll maintain some infrastructure to run it on unless you go for a hosted service like IBM provides.

I'm building the infrastructure for Libr (Tumblr replacement, https://librapp.com) on a serverless platform that I won't name which will be hidden behind a reverse proxy. There won't be any vendor lock in. It's an express/Vue app and will run on any serverless platform or CDN.

If the app is censored by my first cloud provider (perhaps due to pressure on the provider from SESTA/FOSTA) I'll move to a new one. It's likely I'll build parralel copies of the production infrastructure on different cloud providers at some point for rapid migration capabilities.
As a Canadian who lives in the US, the two countries aren’t that different.
> So maybe they're hoping for a buyout from a media company?

For the second time, of course: https://techcrunch.com/2006/10/31/breaking-news-conde-nastwi...

Reddit has an interesting corporate history of being a startup --> acquisition --> subsidiary --> spinout --> "startup" --> ??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guuDUAvEqng
Motivation is to pay rent or mortgage, money for hobbies, leisure, travel and so on. If you are already independently wealthy (and I'm not saying this sarcastically), then I can understand the ennui.

On the other hand your attitude is slightly negative. When I first read your second paragraph, it sounded like you're the independent type, but also an introverted type. Take it from me, job skills are much more than programming or project management or such skills, even management. They are

. Dealing with people that you don't necessarily feel strongly positive about

. Dealing with projects you're not passionate about

. Dealing with being managed sometimes poorly (there are a number of ways to be a bad manager).

By "dealing" I mean emotionally, not walking around angrily or sadly while still managing the above things. I assure you, with responsibilities (like a mortgage), suddenly the motivation for tolerating this goes up. Also, by "dealing" I mean telling yourself it's temporary, and finding ways to improve the situation: one example is to spot a more interesting project or role in the company and try to gun for it. Or finding a better role in a company that doesn't have the limitations of the current. Etc.

I feel like being an employee is more like being a child that sits there waiting for their parents to give them chores. I feel like a mindless drone that goes to temporary prison everyday before going to home to loathe to myself until I have to do it again the next day.

I don't know what to do. I'm just not interested in having a career track of working away at a job to maybe get recognized or get a pay bump. I am tired of hating work.

You need to not be a micromanaged or "fateful" employee. Work in a startup (again), which will automatically give you more responsibility and power. Gun for management (see above about "dealing") and be patient til you get it. Find a company that values your independence. Certainly I hate sitting and waiting for tasks, so I, an introvert (although you'd never know it) have adapted by being fairly aggressive in seeking out getting what I want, both inside companies and outside. I don't wait around, I assert what should be done, and with patience I get respected enough to get it. Believe me, it took me some tries to get that down right politically, but you'd be surprised by how much that is respected.

Hope that helps.
> My wife and I want ten children

This isn't the Soviet Union, nobody's going to give you a medal for that.

> overall reduce the reproduction rate of society. This can hardly be said to be a good thing

This is questionable in the era of global warming. Both society as a whole and maternity leave as a policy rely on very few people having a lot of children.