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The flaw in your argument is in definition of land ownership. You own the rights to use some portion of land somewhere. The rights are provided by other people, ie. a community represented by state.

'Buying' land, ie. transfer of rights from previous owner to new owner is a transaction which excludes the actual provider of the service of land rights, which is other people who will respect the new 'ownership'.

Current system is equivalent to giving infinite land leases, or very long like 100 years.

The way to fix this is to either have a yearly 'land tax' system to collect percentage of the land value or simply provide the land leases for like 7 years for commercial and/or longer for residential.

Each 7 years you'd have a land lease auction. Similarly to having a electromagnetic spectrum auctions or how DNS should be organized - periodic auction to prevent domain squatters to hold premium domain name 'real estate' near valuable domains (using levenshtein distance).
What would you do if a company recently rejected you contacted you for an offer?
So a company I recently interviewed with rejected me because they chose another candidate (No automatic rejection email. Both the recruiter and the manager emailed me saying how difficult it was to decide who to hire and all that in a polite way) but a few weeks later the manager emailed me back saying another candidate rejected the acceptance and asked whether I'm still looking for a job (also politely).

However, I am currently in the middle of the interviewing process with another bigger company and would like to finish the process (currently second technical phone screen).

How should I handle this situation?

Should I tell them I want to work for them but still would like to finish the interview first and then ask for a written offer via email and tell them to wait for a few weeks?

Thank you!
Like all symbols (e.g., statues, logos, sounds, buildings, etc.), there is no innate meaning for words. We are completely free to attach any arbitrary meaning to a word and use it to convey that meaning. That doesn't mean it is without problems and that's the case with open source.

The existing community in which open source is used largely understands "open" to refer to freedom in the broadest means possible. That's the word's denotative sense. It also carries a strong connotative sense in which it is viewed as a positive for business and society.

What's happening is that you have a small group of people who desire to benefit from the connotative sense of the word while changing denotative sense. That creates problems when they're not clear that they don't mean open source in the same way that it's understand commonly amongst the technical community.

It's underhanded and dishonest.

If they want to create a quasi-open source license, that's fine. They simply should be very clear that it's not open source in the traditional/common sense.
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I know a guy who I think, without exaggeration, is one of the best software engineers on the planet (in the top 10%, anyway). He burnt out big time a decade or so ago.

His solution: he became a long-haul truck driver (he asserts that the skill overlap between software engineering and long-haul truck driving is far larger than you'd think). After a couple of years doing that, he reentered the software engineering world, completely revitalized.
We’re all irrational. We all lack access to complete information about any market we’re acting in.

Entire business models have been created to take advantage of and even maximize this type of information asymmetry. Legislation exists to curb the most egregious offenders.

You can argue whether or not this specific case is egregious enough to warrant regulation. But implying we’re all fully rational actors who can make perfect (or even good) decisions in times of great distress and who don’t ever need sort of safety rail to protect us from our own ignorance, urgency, or rashness is just arguing in bad faith.
In Austin, the local grocery chain (HEB) has started its own delivery service in addition to being available over Instacart. Prices for their service (hebtoyou.com) are lower though delivery+shopper fees are comparable. The experience is still a bit raw (substitute specification) but pretty comparable.
Because people are not purely rational actors no matter how much you want them to be.
That's better than a tech landscape with no access to venture capital at all, and startups taking 10x longer to reach critical mass, if they even do.

There's a reason why the US tech industry is orders of magnitude larger than the rest of the world, access to capital. Go try to grow a startup in Europe with its risk averse investors, and see how far you get.

You'll start to see this effect even more in the biotech space, where up front access to capital is crucial in developing and testing products/medicines that must go through expensive FDA approval.
55.

I moved to management position but still do development when no one is looking :)

My Co just published a worldwide press release over system I built over last Xmas break. So it's fun from all sides.
>when that's just not in compliance with the law

The law doesn't magically make it happen without enforcement. People think that waiters get paid less than minimum wage because they've never met a restaurant where a boss actually follows the law and pays out minimum wage if the tips don't cover it
I’d say the relevant criterion would be “had a typical education.” Seems like this guy would qualify, in any case. Thanks for the link.
Regulation levels the playing field.

It'd be easy to undercut the airlines by starting a company that eschews safety regulations.

It'd be easy to undercut the banks by starting a company that eschews financial regulations.

It'd be easy to undercut a doctor by offering services by unlicensed medical staff that don't follow medical guidelines.

There are lots of businesses that would be more affordable to the poor if they didn't have any regulation at all.

Reasonable regulation is not a bad thing, it ensures that consumers are getting what they paid for and that they aren't being exploited. Like, giving the customer a $500 loan at 300% interest that they may never be able to pay back so they end up in an endless cycle of debt.
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This is uncommon but not rare. Have you ever seen wheel blur or other artifacting of such? It's very easy to make happen artificially under controlled conditions which means it can't be that hard to happen accidentally.

Edited to add: Have you ever heard of a timing light for an engine? This works exactly the way you are describing.
It's at least plausible they could open source the language without open sourcing the app at the same time. So they're not necessarily in contradiction.
>I've had to take out loans for my business that were at usury rate.

So has Google, when it started out. (Servers bought on the founder's overstretched credit cards.)
Have to mention this¹ big HN thread from 2 months ago with lots of discussion about that exact issue.

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¹ — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18644590
I have tons of this. I really hope the gmail team is working on it. I don't get spam anymore, I get someone with a name similar, but not quite mine's receipt, dealership tune up reminders, directTV announcements, information about going back to get their RN, etc.

Like none of it is spam exactly, just a lot of wrong numbers.
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It's pretty well known who coined open source and why. It's also known shortly thereafter OSI started protecting the definition.

https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source...

https://opensource.org/history
This is predicted on the unstated assumption that everyone starts out from about the same place and subsequently people make a variety of different choices. It ignores the effect of inheritance or the costs of increasingly binomial wealth distribution.
That refers to the Volt app, not the V language. According to the website, the V language will be open sourced in 2019, and Volt (the app) will be open sourced in 2021.
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This. I know two expert COBOL programmers, and they both make about twice what every other engineer I know makes.
> Can't they can give money to PACs which then give to candidates?

No, but they can sponsor a PAC, which frees up more of the money a PAC raises from individual sources for donations to candidates; this is different only if you ignore the fungibility of money.

(They can also spend directly or via a “SuperPAC” on advocacy that is for/against candidates but legally not coordinated with candidates, and SuperPAC activity in practice is often coordinated with campaigns via public signalling and other mechanisms.)
Hey, yes, you should totally tell them you're waiting to hear from another company and will gladly get back to them as soon as possible.

That might even push them to step up their offer.
Seriously, get down low, and go up a few notches gradually. I mean, learn SOME assembly of some sort. It doesn't really matter if you never WRITE assembly, but learn how a processor works at the very least. Pick whatever is you fancy, pick AVR (8 bits Atmel) that will give you more knowledge about how a processor works than 90% of most commercial programmers worldwide.

Oh and be fluent in C -- you might not like it, you might despise it, you might think whatever you might think of it, but you will find 10 examples of anything in C for any programming problem you have.

Basically it's like being able to read/write Ancient Egyptian when finding a stone with wierd symbols on in the desert.

Then do a small run on how compiler works (you know some assembly, and you know some C now to match) from then you can infer how an interpreter works, and even infer how a JIT works. You'll get to understand how the Javascript in your browser actually /works/ -- that's more than what 99.9999999999% of the population will ever know :-)

Then feel free to play with other languages, quite frankly, I'd suggest not getting enamoured with one in particular. Ultimately, they are all the same. Make sure you understand how a garbage collector works, how dynamic loading of libraries works, and more generally, how the operating systems works -- no need to get in details.

Just ^^^ THAT makes you more knowledgeable than many people throwing O-n's problems around the place.
Whole Foods (Amazon) grocery delivery has you tip the delivery person up-front. They still seem to screw up my order all the time. I mean, seriously, I KNOW they have the stuff on the shelves, but the delivery people flake out all the time and don't deliver half my order. What a scam.
There's actually some decent enough places to stop in Nevada, like the Ruby mountains (especially if you're traveling from Utah to Tahoe and need to go by them anyway).
The term "open source" is not a trademark and at this point it probably cannot be trademarked by anyone. In uncontroversial cases people are happy to let the OSI be the arbiter of open sourceness but in controversial cases people tend to decide that OSI doesn't control the meaning of open source.
Of course, but that's not the point. The point is that you have the opportunity to check it yourself, even if you choose not to avail yourself of that opportunity. And just by that opportunity being available to people, it keeps people honest.
No. Eating a balanced meal improves mental well being. A balance of meat, veg, fruit, etc.

These "studies" are so intentionally deceiving since they take lower income people who gorge themselves on processed junk and them claim "eating more fruit and veg" helps. You could also say "eating more meat" would be beneficial as opposed to processed junk.

I'm disappointed that so much of diet "science" is so corrupted by politics and business agenda. But that's been it's history since kellog's "eat cereal" nonsense and "an apple a day" PR stunt.

There is nothing inherently good about fruits or vegs. An "apple a day" isn't going to keep the doctor away. And vegetables aren't inherently "healthy food". If you only eat apples and vegetables, you will deteriorate physically and mentally and maybe even die.
Nice try, IBM!
Oddly enough, people who are more successful, tend to have more of a safety net that protects them from the worst mistakes. They do have more freedom, usually provided by their parents. De-criminalizing financial mistakes is one of the great breakthroughs of modern society.
This needs to be said more often. Money is not the problem, the time needed to shop and cook as well as the discipline necessary to consistently do so are the largest factors.
There's no need to hire Clojure programmers, just hire good programmers, and get them to work on Clojure. Our experience is that new people can start producing something useful in two weeks at most. There's not really a lot to learn to become useful. Most of beginner's hurdles are on environment setup, coding habits, etc, these are not problems at all if they join a team .
Notice people found out about this last week, but the CEO waited to apologize and make promises until the New York Times published a scathing article about it this morning.
How much less is the impact?
Well, the default config itself has been updated with the new name [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] -- this what you'd self-host, and is also what's hosted out of 'sh.rt', but we're splitting hairs to pedantic, and both of us are mostly right.

It seems 'sh.rt' will continue to be the service domain while the software (but not the identities of the artifacts) have been renamed for ease, and it's all being done in a way to maximize benefit and minimize breakage.

[1] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/man.sr.ht/commit/334110372221918...
[2] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/lists.sr.ht/commit/b8016bc1b8e51...
[3] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/builds.sr.ht/commit/0bebfad24973...
[4] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/dispatch.sr.ht/commit/5a618375c7...
[5] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/todo.sr.ht/commit/d84ecaa6e4a56b...
[6] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/meta.sr.ht/commit/1c1931b1307989...
[7] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/hg.sr.ht/commit/09255a6bfe108067...
[8] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/git.sr.ht/commit/ed9527f23cef223...
Farage can do this thanks to his German residency!
The CFPB has gone after Wells Fargo and other banks for exactly that reason.
Sardines.
> Coining a term or being among the first to use it does not mean that term belongs to you.

I wish that people would understand this not only in the context of definitions but also in the context of culture. Neither definitions nor culture belong to anyone. At the same time, they "belong" to everyone.
Yes, but we need a variety of such foods.
And Germans depend on machinery exports, and Airbus depends on exports etc. etc..

But there has to be a price, or the leveraging game will continue.

When there is enough collective power they will waver as we can see in the current US-China negotiations.

The trade balance heavily favours EU and the US and the materiality of that fact becomes evident as soon as someone has the cohones to play the card.

Right now as China is facing an existential turning point with much lower rates of growth, is a good time to do it. And sooner is always better.
Not suspicious at all. It's how mailing lists work.

From on the envelope will be address of the mailing list, and from in the headers will be the original sender. Perfectly legitimate and extremely annoying if anythig uses this as a SPAM signal.
Great branding! How about a logo contest? ;)
It would be more ethical on all sides if there were hard limits on the "usury rate".

I think it was acceptable in the past when credit cards had a hard limit on the interest percentages (I recall maybe 12%?).

I was kind of appalled when the percentages were relaxed years back and when 24% and 36% became possible, they were immediately the norm.

Availability of capital is great, but not at the expense of perpetual indentured servitude.
Not at all. Just because you have agency, it doesn't mean you'll wield it rationally, or even responsibly.

And so you get the central question: in what cases should you protect people from themselves? It's a hard question to answer. Given that financial education in the US is nearly nonexistent, I would personally err on the side of protections in the financial sphere. Does that mean that some legitimate cases get denied? Probably. Is that a worse outcome? I don't know the answer to that.
Let's say you wanted to give income from labor the same benefits as (negative) income from investments that lost money... How would you do that?

I am not all that sure about carrying forward investment losses, and as you are aware some expenses are deductible while some are not. While eating a fancy restaurant is strictly optional, spending on medical of educational costs are quite different.

In general I think if someone investigates the edge cases first (eg looking at the second-order effect like carrying deductions on negative income) that's a sign of not wanting to look at the larger picture.
Same as the society solved allocating humans. Instead of them being bought and sold on slave markets, nowadays we have companies leasing humans in exchange for a salary. You can do the same with land - lease it instead of giving asay infinite time ownership rights.
Ignore the fad tech, get a good, serious, bulletproof base in actual computer science -- I mean, LOW LEVEL stuff--, that will help you learn ANYTHING computer related quickly, and continue surfing that wave with whatever tech you fancy might actually be useful to make you sellable in the future...

Instead of listening to you and I (age 50) there are some young people who would rather claim that basic/low-level/first principles knowledge is irrelevant.

I've never been 'age discriminated' before

I have. These coder-bros I was interviewing with accused me of Googling the answers and started in on the complete condescension. (I was doing the classic dynamic languages programmer thing and writing a quick script to answer their question programmatically.) Nothing fundamentally age-discrimination about that. It was how they spoke to me and treated me after that. Sometimes I still get mad or sick thinking about it. One thing I've learned, when people are projecting things on you which contradict the facts, that's a big symptom of bias.
>their technology _only_ kicks in if the user experience can be improved by using peer-to-peer

I'm curious on how well that works in practice.

I'd imagine there's more failures modes versus a regular CDN even after the initial decision of P2P or CDN. For example, you're downloading from another user who suddenly closes their app or whose network connection degrades. You can handle that but you'll need a larger buffer, on average, which increases latency.
> You have me beat, but I have a coworker who used paper tape.

When I first learned to program (I was about 12), I was using paper tape and those old Bell teletypes, in a facility that still used punched cards.

Here's my punched card story -- I bumped a box with a card deck and it sent the cards flying, mixing them all up. The systems operator made me sort the cards by hand. It took me hours. It was a few months before I learned that they had a machine that would have done that for me automatically -- but the sysop had decided that I needed to learn a lesson (which I did, in fact, learn!)
Common meaning behind open source is not actually OSI approved open source and never was by the way. OSI, for example, rejects public domain, while for pretty much everyone else public domain is open source. Broad freedom is even trickier to talk about. FSF, for example, built an entire ideology on the meaning of freedom.
There is TheBrain, which has a free-of-charge personal offerring, as well as aid service tiers.

Jerry Michalsky is among the more notable users.

https://www.jerrysbrain.com

http://old.thebrain.com/store/faq/#Section1.1
Thanks for the info, I was aware of vagrant-libvirt and ansible (already use that to deploy vagrant guests) but unison I hadn't seen.

Funnily enough webpack is where I had the most problems (it certainly surfaces "what happens when we smack the FS in the face repeatedly" issues better than most) which is what got me thinking down the KVM route in the first place.

In terms of hacking around on vagrant, it's ruby which isn't on the list of languages I'm fluent in and its flexibility makes it more complex than what I need for my use case.

There is something to be said sometimes for rolling your own for your own itch but I'll certainly have a look at unison as part of vagrant first.
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If investment income is taxed at 50%

Love it when people shoot down proposals I never made
> At Airbnb, we eventually wrote our own wrapper around Unison to make it easier to use

Is there any chance you guys open sourced this wrapper, or have any plans to? :)
>"I'm very happy there was a lender of last resort that won't break my legs"

All of your support and encouragement of a superbly predatory practice comes from that line. You were happy that nobody broke your legs.

Do compare that with the history of slavery, where outside of conquest, people became slaves because they couldn't fulfill their financial obligations.

> "I mean, no where do they seem to be hinting at creating a government agency for lending of last resort"

North Korea has a government agency that is a collector of debts of last resort. For the debtor, or their immediate or extended family, or friends.
Fruits and veggies are among the most expensive items in any grocery store in the United States per calories, which is the metric that really counts.
Correct. But even if the whois wasn't fakeable, do I really need to run a whois before I click on a link in an email?
They look at enough companies that I think they’re qualified to make this assessment
Some tricks and tips off the top of my head:

* Sous vide: It's very easy to learn and make for juicy and delicious food easy.

* Meal prep. Rather than cooking everyday of the week, spend two hours or so prepping meals for the rest of the week so that you don't have to cook.

That said, the problem is that such knowledge isn't that widespread, although it's widely available on youtube university.
Do I read you correctly as saying that the anecdotal evidence of the kinds of abuse you're concerned about (in the form of chain emails, &c) outweighs the actual, you know, "research" that has been done on these programs, their use, and their outcomes, and that there is instead some kind of systemic abuse by "pockets of underclass that grows up not knowing anything different"?

Because, yeah. We're just going to talk past each other here if so. Back to my deadline.
> Without this single, standard definition of "open source," software development as we know it would not be possible. There is no trust in a world where anyone can invent their own definition for open source, and without trust there is no community, no collaboration, and no innovation.

Are they saying I can't trust what I read in the license files of a project? This is beyond hubris...
You don't need to eat meat to be healthy (mentally or physically).
The reason why Clojure is easy to teach on the job is that Clojure code base is small and code are very localized.

It's impossible to be productive in a large Java code base within a month even if you joined as a seasoned Java developer. But it is routine for a programmer who has not even heard of Clojure before to become productive in a production Clojure code base in two weeks. We do this all the time with our interns.