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> But the senior engineer has a vital role in advising which problems are solvable. Either in terms of technology, skill, time or budget. That input needs to start at the commencement of a project.

> Here's my rough delineation: a Senior knows why a particular requirement is in the Func Req Doc. A Junior doesn't.

I still think this makes sense if the problem is an engineering problem. The problem is rarely whether you can or can't do something (unless you're doing some suuuper cutting edge tech) -- it's whether you should or not, and that's a project management/business/product person's job to decide, when they draw up the plan for the project.

I know this isn't how it will work in the real world, but the senior engineer should be called on to clarify parts of the plan, not to start doing the planning & figuring out how to maximize business value. Once you start bringing in those other aspects, it's no longer about the engineering discipline -- so the job title should reflect that -- It's obvious that a "senior engineering project lead" knows why a particular requirement is in the functional requirements -- it's less clear to me (at least) that a "senior engineer", all I expect from that person is engineering ability.

Maybe it's just pedantry/semantics but it seems like a distinguishable difference to me.

> I laughed at that. FAANG salaries are so out of context of most around the World that they are irrelevant. As a 15-year Senior in the UK I was earning $50,000 equivalent. And no stock options. I don't think FAANG salary ladders even start that low.

I can't argue with your context, but I bet FAANG's profits are also out of context compared to the companies you're thinking about in the UK as well. Tech is literally one of the US's biggest (if not biggest, I think the entertainment industry might be the biggest) export. Just because there was more money to go around doesn't mean what they did wasn't wrong and extremely employee-hostile.

As a side note, maybe you should move to another company/industry? No one is forcing you to be paid less, especially with 15 years of experience... Go to one of the companies with enough money to pay you lavishly.
In the end you have two options, give in, or don't -- and if you give in, they may still say "not good enough" or "I don't believe you".

If you negotiate with hostage takers, you encourage hostage taking.
Why not use Colemak to solve it?
Keep in mind this is a syndicated story from 2018:

https://medium.com/@jacksoncunningham/digital-exile-how-i-go...
Yeah, right?

Maybe they lost the specifics of that pesky Paladin contract as collateral damage from the hackers' actions.
> As an aside, why why why do people use the international keyboard layout?

Like you said, you'd prefer to keep the keys you need close to the home row. So when a language has extra letters (compared to English), you preferably put those letters in the three letter rows, and carve them space as needed.
Also "vegan" bodybuilders who made all their gains while they were still meat eaters.
Is that right? How come you can find them in pharmacies?
On the contrary, it has triggered development of wg-dynamic[0] which should eventually fix those issues.

[0] https://git.zx2c4.com/wg-dynamic/
Funny; this is my one annoyance with the Switch. If I leave it for a few days I know that it will be dead and I'll need to recharge it.
Good for you, it's better to rediscover all the equations yourself :)
Do you have any credible source for 3?

GWPF is a firmly denialist think tank set up by Nigel Lawson, one of the most strident deniers who has often and easily been caught lying on many readily checked points. GWPF has been repeatedly criticised for its misinformation, its opaque funding and lied about sources, and breached Charity Commission rules on impartiality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Warming_Policy_Foundati...
We have a term for this nowadays, "illegal combatant."

It's only illegal if the other side do it.
Eventually, that too becomes normal. I spent a couple of months going between the new MacBook Pro and the old one daily, and you get the feel for it eventually.
Yeah. I mean one attack is eavesdropping on conversations, but almost as bad a threat would be to just remotely disable the equipment.
This is actually a really handy resource, I'm currently working on something with isometric hexagonal grids and it can get pretty complex at times.
Also if your diet is shit and your gut hangs out over the top of your trousers electrically stimulating your abs isn't going to make the slightest bit of difference aesthetically. At least by actually lifting you're also burning calories.
I am claiming that the UK has to be realistic.

The whole security story around Huawei is largely overblown and driven by the US's increasing realisation that they won't be the undisputed top dog for long.

The UK is not in that situation. They are a medium power leaving the largest trading bloc in the world and they need China.
As such they need to be realistic when assessing risk and have a pragmatic approach.
>Unpopular opinions on HN get downvoted to invisibility

Do they? In my experience (admittedly limited, a couple of years) things get a lot of downvotes almost always for how they say it, not what they say. Can anyone give counterexamples? A well-expressed comment worth reading but downvoted to invisibility?
Same here. My wife is still using my old MBP 17" daily. I replaced the HD with an SSD and maxed out the RAM several years ago and it still does everything she needs, and then some. And the older I get the more monitor I need. I have a nice big monitor at home but when I travel, or just work from a coffee shop, it's nice to have more screen real estate.
At least the 1-10-100 scaling makes metric easy for critters with 10 digits...

And calculations like "how much energy is needed to heat 1 litre of water by 10 Celsius" are a simple multiplication task.
For me that seems to be the biggets downside. Colleagues occasionally need to use my setup (when looking at a problem together for example).

They already complain about me using a 60% board, so I can't imagine putting them through dvorak if they just quickly want to type something. :)

But also, I don't see a great advantage to dvorak. I type about 150WPM on qwerty / azerty and mainly use my keyboard (no mouse) so health concerns are taken care off by having a smaller board and no mouse usage. When I do use the mouse, I also have an ergonomic one.

So yeah.. I don't see the great upside but see potential downsides at work :)
I doubt that Airbnb behaves any differently in 2019 than they did in 2018.
Comparison of Ergo Keyboards
Agreed. As a finger picker my main issue with taking long breaks from bass is the lack of finger callouses!
It is impossible to ‘make sure the stick was produced by Google’. That’s fake security which is even worse than no security.
It's a ridiculous rule, but really after one incident just accept it and move on. Next time book someone else. Don't make a review in other locations. (and then make a blog post, and then repost that blog post on another website)
In my country at least I need a prescription from a doctor if I want to take antibiotics, does that mean they're banned here?
Furthermore, if you want to return the item, you're entitled to a full refund, rather than being forced to pay for shipping for an item you didn't want.
Perhaps not, but it's not terribly obvious if you read this article. For those of us who remember when the original story made it to the front page it's worth noting that this is not a new incident of the same nature.
I'll bet good money that an IBM PC or PC XT that has been properly stored will boot up and be more or less as usable today as it was the day it was put to storage (especially the floppy-only models without an hdd).
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What this article doesn't mention is that not only can you replace Java with Kotlin, you can replace JavaScript too. I've even gotten rid of ugly bash scripts with judicious application of kscript. And soon, Gradle scripts too. (Good riddance, Groovy.)

But compile-to-JVM is compelling enough on its own. The Java ecosystem that comes for free with Kotlin gives you an incredible amount of power. A massive collection of battle-tested libraries, the excellent performance of the JVM, and tooling. Beautiful, productive tooling.
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Also, preferably I'd just be able to curl the articles ;)
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This is an insufficient definition of fake news since Due Diligence is a huge part of real journalism. I could email some news organization claiming to be an insider and offering some 'explosive revelation' about an issue or another. It would be absolutely fake news for them to simply run that story while attributing it to an anonymous source. It's their responsibility to ensure that what I say is true beyond any reasonable doubt. When dealing with anonymous and/or potentially biased sources this responsibility is exponentially more important.

There was a very recent example of this where Buzzfeed chose to publish an 'explosive' story about the Mueller investigation. So explosive was the story that the Mueller team took the completely unprecedented step of publicly clarifying that Buzzfeed's story was fake. [1] I doubt they simply made up the story. In reality they most likely simply failed to effectively carry out their due diligence, but this is in many ways no better because there is a major economic incentive to skip or engage in sloppy due diligence. When you run explosive stories you get substantial revenue gains due to the exclusive attention you gain. And there's also the risk that a story is true and, in the process of trying to validate it, you end up getting beat to the press by another media organization - once again hurting your revenue and visibility.

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/2019/...
True in some forms (in the Netherlands) but if you only sell it for a day for the increased price you could argue it is deceptive (Mediamarkt does this usually for a week before the sales which is apparently enough). What they used to do, raise the price on the day of the sale, is fortunately no longer allowed. The other trick being the use of the advised selling price (which is always way more than the actual value of the product) and go from there.

What I usually see these days is that products get offered on sale which have not been sold before so there is no way of knowing if they offered it before for less. Though internet helps if you are in a shop and it sounds dodgy at best.
The Facebook Ads, when those were revealed, were nothing more than racist lies. Trying to imply all of Turkey would be in the UK without Brexit.

Just like we had all of Greece, and all of Poland then, where there's naught but a wilderness now.
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/
I really don't get the appeal of AirBnB.
Book a stay in an informal "hotel" and you are at the mercy of the hosts.

Book a stay at a hotel or guest house chain then you at least know what ground you are standing on and have a chance to complain.
I can't help but notice that your comment falls into the sin you're accusing me off.

Instead of lecturing people on the internet, you might actually want to ponder than someone can "do something interesting with their life" _and_ have fun at living cliches at the same time.

Do you think that bile commentators like Joan Rivers, Ambrose Bierce, Bill Hicks, Hunter S. Thompson, Mark Twain, Bernard Shaw, and so on, haven't done anything interesting with their life, or is it only me? (Sure, I'm no Bierce or Rivers, but that wasn't my point. We do share the "derision" part which you seem to deem so crucial).

Plus, ever thought that I could pinpoint her that easily because I perhaps share some of her attributes? So my "derision" could also be self-deprecating? No, you only think about you!
I wonder if Airbnb responded to that? I mean it got over 243k likes on the post so I guess the social media reaction would be pretty big?
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In case anyone think I'm joking, no I'm serious. Todays sites have all these flashy useless animation, its hard to find the information you're looking for, takes forever to load, etc. Dennis's page (now memorialized) has been up for decades, the links are all still valid and will continue to be.
Thank you! I may yet figure out the protocol of my APS film scanner.
Do you have anything to say about the actual substance of the complaint? Are you denying that the paper is based on flawed data? Have you even read the complaint?

You can attack the organization all you like, but you havent actually shown that the complaint is unjustified.
It may still be the case in the UK that it's illegal to receive ('intercept') radio communications not intended for your consumption, even if they're broadcast in the clear. It's not an unusual class of law, does make some sort of sense (even if enforcement is very hard!) and it seems like receiving ADS-B would be covered by that.
Off-topic, but Fosdem is great! Started going about 6ish years ago and always enjoy it!

Thanks for the hard work and for providing such a great event for free. And for the cool t-shirts :D
I'm only (vaguely) familiar with the rules in the UK, but they include tests to ensure the 'was' price was actually a genuine usual selling price. This includes tests that the 'full' price must have been in place for longer than the promotional period, that it must have been recent and that significant sales were made at that price. Buy one get one free also has to mean you get two equivalent or similar products. Compliance is also monitored and enforced. I'm not claiming it's perfect, but by and large over here you can have reasonable confidence these promotions are usually valid.

Conversely my wife is Chinese. Over there 'buy one get one free' usually means something like buy one dress, get one flimsy, non colour-matching belt free.
I'm excited to hear about Apple doing something at least approaching innovative, though I'm pretty sure that adding another size to the MBP lineup will just muddy the waters further. Then again, if they replace the Intel platform with ARM in the 16" MBP that would be outstanding and would really shake things up.

Either way, I expect the pricing to be astronomical; $8,999 for a 16" MBP wouldn't surprise me much.
Their very existence is a scandal.
believe it or not people in their 50s or older are on the internet :)
While the author has come across somewhat passive-aggressive throughout the article, I do agree with the premise. I have many male friends who have quite clearly been gripped by YouTube's recommendation algorithms, and they have no interest in sensible discourse. I've had to distance myself from them because they have become almost religiously zealous in their praise of various right-learning, far-right, and alt-right political commentators. All of them young males with no real career path, hobbies or purpose, and these videos have done an excellent job of painting targets that they can now blame for all their woes. It's an easy trap to fall into.

I remember watching a Joe Rogan podcast with Jordan Peterson, followed it with a few of his lectures, and all of a sudden my feed was brimming with "Ben Shapiro DESTROYS SJW with FACTS and LOGIC" videos, or "Debunking feminism" and various other bile. It's a consequence of YouTube trying to keep people engaged on their platform, and it's only going to get worse if these algorithms keep feeding groups, both left and right, politically divisive content. I'm not sure what can be done about it either, other than heavy-handed government legislation.
The problem of showing digital proof of payment
Imagine that you have four parties to a deal: 1. buyer 2. seller 3. delivery firm 4. bank.

When the buyer has paid the seller in US dollars, the buyer will provide a digital proof of payment to the delivery firm who will then ship the goods to the buyer.

It is obviously not safe to provide the digital scan of a paper document, because such digital scan can be trivially photoshopped.

The problem can be solved with stablecoins such as Tether, USD Coin, TrueUSD, Paxos, Dai, or Gemini Dollar.

The contract between buyer, seller and delivery firm specifies that the amount must be transferred to the specific address for the contract.

From there on, the delivery firm can trivially verify in stablecoin's blockchain that the money is now present in this specific address. Hence, the stablecoin's blockchain will contain irrefutable, digitally-signed proof of payment.

Have you ever heard of any traditional bank which is capable of issuing an irrefutable digital proof of payment on behalf of the buyer?

By the way, would you even be able to send digital proof that you have paid last month's rent? Just think of it. Not one bank can email to you a digital document with which you can prove that you have made that payment. It is not that it would be a particularly hard thing to do. It is just that they are not capable of doing it.
Do you know of a good guide for setting up a squid proxy in this way?
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Here's the original HN discussion from 7 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17523056
S&H is not always fixed-rate. In fact, "handling" two items should cost more. Shipping more weight should also cost more.
> “If you actually care about making communication technologies compatible with democracy, then the place to be is at one of the companies that actually has the problems,” he says. “Not working at the big places that could actually solve it does not make things better.”

It would interesting to know how a Google employee would fair advocating for Google to pay more tax. Besides the China Search Engine thing it's what would make me most uncomfortable as an engineer there.

As it was recently said by Ritter Bregman, "taxes, taxes, taxes, and the rest is all bullshit in my opinion."

This article covers a lot of ground, but basically no where does it mention the students grappling with the really big issues with big tech companies: antitrust and corporate taxes.
5.25" were always more durable than the 1.44mb 3.5" ones. I used an '87-vintage PC XT clone till I got a Pentium in '95 & kept the old computer in a closet.

When I booted it up a few years later all my 5.25" still worked where as brand new 3.5" ones would be a good bet to not be readable even after a single rewrite.
How Continuous Integration Can Help in Software Development?
My reason is that it's 2-3x times cheaper. An airbnb room in Amsterdam is the same price as a hostel where you would be sharing a room with 7 other people.
In terms of finger movement (i.e distance your fingers have to travel) I'd have a look at CarpalX that specifically optimizes based on this metric. Its best layout (QGMLWB) compares favorably to both QWERTY, Dvorak and Colemak as far as that goes.

http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/
Do Not Use Meson
There is bépo [1] for french users, I'm currently learning it (it's been 5 days and i'm still soooo slow). What's nice with it is that the special chars are on alt-grad + left hand which is nice for coding (thumb vs pinky)

[1] bepo.fr/wiki/Accueil
It does undermine the value logistics / delivery companies provide to the customers.

An industry that works on 3% margins already.
When I travel for more than a couple of days I like to have a kitchen and a separate bedroom (especially if with friends or a couple), and it's often expensive to find a hotel with this, or impossible in a smaller town. Plus, some homes are just wonderful experiences: I've stayed on boats, hammocks, tiny guest rooms in the mountains I wouldn't have found otherwise, met people who are now my life-long friends .. - I don't mind AirBnB operating but I wish it was regulated that you can be permanently renting out a home you don't live in. I've seen too many cities lose beds for the locals.
UK recruiters are frightened of losing their client (the company) to other recruiters. Unless the recruiter has managed to agree an exclusive deal on a particular role, every time they give out the name of that client they risk another recruiter calling the client and saying "I see you are recruiting for X, we have some great candidates, would you like to see them?"

And some UK recruiters play very dirty. They post fake CVs and fake job ads to mine the market. They pose as candidates to get info from other agents; and ask real candidates what other jobs they have applied for.
Especially when the change must happen quickly (in this case in terms of years)
Overblown?

Does anyone seriously believe that if Xi Jinping orders Huawei to deploy a backdoor, they will resist?
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It also happens in online marketplaces like Amazon but luckily there are tools to track price changes like https://camelcamelcamel.com/ (disclaimer: not affiliated at all, just a happy user). Wish there were more tools like that but for retail.
People aren’t perfect. Asking for large-scale, across-the-Board improvements in critical thinking is identical to just advocating for the status quo.

It’s also destructive. People prefer their existing believes to be verified. Making „trust no one“ popular just gives them license to discount any evidence contradicting them. So Wikipedia says illegal immigration is at a 30-year low? Those numbers must be fake. Homeland Security has the same numbers? They are in it together!

And how would you, even in principle, verify anything if you trust no one? I have absolutely no proof that El Chapo has anything to do with cocaine. I can’t examine any documents from the trial myself. And even if I could, they could just be fake anyway. Who knows how big the anti-Chapo conspiracy is? The recordings may just be voice actors, and why should I trust the translator?
Wouldn't Alaska be scaled up on maps being far to the north?

Have only really seen maps using Mercator myself though.
So it's gaslighting, then? Why in the hell should I believe reporting from an organization whose entire stated purpose is to spread FUD and has knowingly in the past lied about the various points it's attempted to raise? If the paper is based off of flawed data, then I assume you can find an actual credible source willing to address this.

If you can give me a credible source by all means I would be happy to admit I'm wrong. What you've given me is trash disguised as something credible. Especially since in your original post you implied that they were a climate change authority. There's a lot of bullshit that I try to ignore, but I expect better than that.
Very, very, very unprobable... but nothing is impossible.

No preys with scars, no youngs, no recent teeth in sediments, no strandings, NO fished ones (not even, when everybody is crazy fishing anything that remains), no sonar, submarine, ships or satelite sightings...

And as sharks are cartilaginous fishes, the rest of the body is poorly known. We even might have to rename it buck-teeth shark. Is not impossible that teeth weren't sized like the rest of the body. We just don't know.
Why is this surprising? Undesirable, sure, but shipping additional things costs additional money.
If you allowed yourself a second label, you could clean up those repeated `report_error()` calls, too.
One example map, and to me a pretty typical example of the genre, shows Alaska on a about half the scale of the contiguous states. Compare the by the scale markings:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Map_of_U...

This is not simply projection effects, this is explicit downscaling.

Another comparison, Wikipedia lists the area of Alaska as 1,717,856 km^2 and that of the contiguous United States 8,080,400 km^2, so on a map with only projection correction Alaska should be around 1/4 of the size of the lower 48, this is clearly not true on the wikipedia example shown above, and for any other map in the same style.

So no, Alaska is not scaled down for the sake of accurately depicting its size.