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As a 40+ yo dev I want to agree with you but:

>I've forgotten more frameworks than most coders will ever learn.

Forgotten knowledge is worthless

> I mostly don't care about programming languages, they're roughly the same and I can learn a new one in a couple weeks.

I used to think that, its possibly true, but the platform that comes with the language certainly can't be learnt in a couple of weeks so I dont think this is true as it used to be.

> I know technologies like Rails and SQL, but I don't play with the new toys as much as I used to, becuase lately I would rather solve a new problem or build a new tool than learn a new tool.

This is a real problem for you if companies are hiring for people that know the new toys.

> It's another world, and a lot of companies just don't bother...Thankfully I have no desire to work at any of those companies...There are plenty of companies trying to hire people to solve actual problems

That's great now, but in the future the job market might not be so tight and then people with your attitude might find it really tough.
Probably why a company like amazon has achieved elusive scrutiny is that they give consumers cheapest prices but squeeze suppliers. Suppliers most definitely hate amazons dominant position.
Infinite JavaScript alert() prank gets 13-year-old Japanese girl charged
Several modern Emacs modes have the same qualities as Magit, including great design and modal keybindings. For example, Notmuch is in my opinion the best email client of any platform (excluding Gnus for some really specialized use cases). Org is probably the other obvious example.

I think viewing Emacs as a text editor is too narrow-minded. Emacs is really a text-mode Lisp machine, a platform where editing modes are applications. In fact, some people's favorite Vi implementation is Evil for Emacs.
Keep taking derivatives and you'll end up with rice krispies...
I'm way less worried about this than when Waymo was originally called the Google Self-Driving Car Project.

If Uber and Tesla continue with their current plans, they will have enough accidents that self-driving cars being in accidents will cease being headline news. They just become an actuarial math problem, just like regular car insurance is today.

(This is my opinion and not that of my employer.)
The thought, clearly expressed in Elizabeth Warren's post, is that Amazon et al are stifling innovation by discouraging entrants and using dominant positions in adjacent industries to crowd out competitors. This isn't a new idea—it's one of the pillars of antitrust.
This is not free anymore? Looks like EOL?

https://community.sugarcrm.com/community/news/blog/2018/04/0...
That's the thing nobody deserves anything. How do you prove one scale is better than another? GDP - arbitrary. GINI index - arbitrary. Violent submission? I guess at the end of the day there's your answer.
This is a version of an anthropic principle argument.

However it is not arbitrary, and not an assumption. When you run simulations you can test different combinations of factors and see what difference they make. See, for example, https://www.space.com/31577-earth-life-jupiter-saturn-giant-... to see how important gas giants are for blocking large impacts on small rocky inner planets.

That said, there may be another way to get long-term stability. But if so, then we haven't found it. And yes, we've looked.
Few questions:

1. [solved] How does it work? I couldn't get it from the website: 'go/' is not a real DNS-resolved domain but some host alias?!

2. [solved] If 1 is true, how do you want to target smaller to medium sized companies which just have G-Suite, Slack but no real intranet/private net where you could create this host alias easily for the entire staff? Guess I got it wrong, so I am happy about a technical explanation/architecture.

3. How is the business model's defensibility? What's hindering me to set up the same with some open source repo, write a Chrome extension, add a nice landing page and hire a sales force for SaaS enterprise sales?

EDIT: ok now I fully read your post and got my answer for 1 and 2 but how should this work on mobile where you don't have extensions?
> And honestly, I would be more concerned about hiring someone who built their own bespoke framework from scratch than someone who used an existing one. Building frameworks rarely adds business value.

Hum... My experience is that whatever framework a business use in any widespread manner, I do always have to build another one on top, because generalist libraries completely suck for productivity. Unless you are a single app shop, then you can just hard-code everything.

I don't get how improving development speed does not add business value.
Build the wall?
Bitrix24 just went free.... I used in about a year ago.
"Higher order calculus over open food spaces"
Too cold? I visited in January and couldn't believe how nice it was. It may be my Midwest frame of reference, but everyone else was walking around in short sleeves and perfectly comfortable so I doubt it.
Oh man! I didn't know there was prior art. I think yours looks great, Rob, and I'm very eager to get it installed and compare notes. I'm impressed that you got all the clues displayed at once.
It's not full self driving

I call the same thing you call it, apparently.
Count me as being not a fan of ELF.

One can have e_phoff or e_shoff or both... or I suppose neither. Because you can have both, they can conflict. If you have e_phoff, then within that there is the issue of p_vaddr and p_paddr. You could have one or the other or both, or I suppose neither. They can thus conflict. The various flags associated with these things can also conflict.

This comes up often with boot loaders and kernels. There are versions of Linux that are described by p_vaddr, p_paddr, and sh_addr. Sometimes one or another has an offset added/subtracted, or is zero, or is simply missing or worse.

None of the above even makes sense once you add ASLR. I have no idea how that is expressed, but I'm pretty certain it is a gross hack. There just isn't a proper way to express such a thing.

Needlessly, there are two types of symbols. They could conflict. Better formats just use a flag bit.

BTW, when I hand-generate ELF files, I hit bugs in BFD. I recall hitting one that relates to string tables, with BFD refusing to accept an index of 0. I had to add a useless NUL byte.
If you have 4 kids, it might be different.

All of my siblings have kids ands live in the burbs, and it's jus easier: they have larger, boring homes, but easy access to schools and the grocery store.

Parkland: they all play sports and there are actual places to play them.

The couldn't care less about not being near the museum.

I think they would like maybe to be able to 'walk places' but that's one thing they give up.

It's also very green and closer to the countryside.

It's a little more banal but I really do think when you have kids, it's all about that, and so a lot of other things have less priority.
Slack has a really great feature where it associates websites with applications if they have them. Thanks for sharing this! Its working as intended :)
Yes, as we get richer we lose something. We lose the ability to like those simpler things. A 17 year old kid loves his clapped out 1.2 Clio at least as much as you love your BMW Super Truck X Series.
having a car only city basically guarantees that 15% of your post-tax income goes to transportation costs
What you describe is PowerShell. It is available for most Linux and macOS.
Because Oakland is sketchy (way more so than gentrified parts of SF) - people want to live in SF, that's what the blog post alludes to also. Some parts look post-apocalyptic with dozens of tents in a single encampment. I bet you if city manages to clean up the homeless and finish the bike line across the Bay Bridge there will be an explosion of startups because it's a perfect place to be in otherwise.
CRDTs are quite actively discussed in the IPFS community, in particular here: https://github.com/ipfs/research-CRDT/ (lots of great resources if you're interested in CRDTs)

Also check out automerge, a CRDT that aims to be as JSON-like as possible: https://github.com/automerge/automerge

Martin Kleppmann (one of the creators of Automerge) has given several great in-depth talks about it, eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCcWpzY8dIA
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These were mostly submitted somewhat automatically via the EFF
>If you've got decades of experience on your resume, my guess is that you want to be evaluated as a senior dev.

And this is where ageism rears its head.

If two people apply for the same position, and you're OK hiring someone who has only 2 years of experience for the position, don't ask for more from someone who's been working for 20 years.
Does the type of data or usage effect the relative speeds. eg Torrenting vs regular browsing, etc.
I flog myself by hiking and running long distances. You gain a bit of toughness when pushing yourself to the limit (exhausted and a bit hurt), while in a thunderstorm, and you are still 1 hour away from finishing. (And while we are talking about food. Intermittent fasting is a similar experience. Going hungry for a while makes you appreciate food in a different way.)
Civilizations probably ended because it's hard to control their own populations. Imagine a society where population is set to 5 billion, the limit only increased when capacity is increased.

This is compounded by:

1) a lot of planets are not hospitable for a variety of factors. A society might resent the limit for many years if it was possible to implement such a limit.

2) the technology era is short-lived and not ongoing. A new civilization starts 10,000 years later. How will they even know homo-sapiens existed if a plague wipes out homo-sapiens tomorrow? A few tiny satellites in the vast emptiness of space?
Tax on worldwide profits, credit foreign taxes paid. You know, the same rules as for mortal non corporate persons.

Sales/Use/VAT tax for payments to wholly owned subsidiaries.
Getting IAM Right
Interview with Maoni Stephens – Lead Dotnet GC Developer (2017)
Lots of SaaS companies have a “sign up with google” button which gives them access to the employee directory assuming your org uses google suite. It’s unfortunate yesteryear’s shit growth hack for consumer apps is reappearing in a worse way.
What kind of traffic and road conditions does that trip involve and how much are you an observer vs. you hanging on to the wheel and paying attention to everything as if you were driving yourself (staying engaged) as you are required by the law and by common sense?

And if you don't mind me asking, how would you quantify in real money the value added by the system?
Well yes, but in India it does not work like this. If I give you a cheque for X amount, you cannot use those numbers mentioned on cheque leaf for any more txns. You can get only that X amount with only that cheque leaf.
> Secret Grand Juries have been used to prosecute activists for decades now.

That's true only in the sense that:

(1) In the US, all serious offenses in the federal system must either have a grand jury indictment or the defendant waiving their right to indictment in order to proceed, as a matter of Constitutional rights of the accused, and

(2) Secrecy is (as the federal courts have found) an essential element of the character of a criminal grand jury, included within the Constitutional requirement, and

(3) Activists have sometimes been prosecuted for serious federal crimes, without waiving their fifth amendment rights (almost no one waives indictment except as part of a plea bargain), requiring an indictment by a (inherently secret) grand jury as a pre-requisite.

But there's no special link between grand juries and prosecution of activists, specifically. You might as well say “papers filed in courts have been used to prosecute activists, so I refuse to participate in any paper-filing-in-court.”
Run away! Run away! If a bank won't touch someone neither should you. Heck, there are numerous buy here/pay here car lots and I'd assume this buyer has been turned away by all of them. Seriously, don't even think about going this route.
A few reasons it's not like that:

1. The person interviewing you is often less experienced and skilled than they let on. They can't make sense of your code, not because it's not any good, but because they don't code at your skill level in that language.

2. Showing off code, while making for a better interview than the behavioral stuff that passes for interviewing at the bigs, still isn't all that great a tool. There are a lot of people who might show it off, and might even talk the talk, but who didn't write all of it and might not even understand it.

3. The code is secondary to the job. How you come up with the code is primary to the job, and showing off code doesn't show off how you came up with it. Even the best code ever would be a bad hire if it took you six months to come up with it or annoyed your fellow devs for months in coming up with it.

4. The way you're used to coding will be different than the culture of the new firm. It just is. If hired, you're going to adapt to it, not the other way around.
And my wife’s Acura will completely steer itself (with a much shorter list of features), but requires your hands on the wheel. It works without your hands, but it gets testy if you don’t move the wheel slightly every 15 seconds.

It’s significantly nicer to drive long stretches with this system, but I can’t imagine doing it without your hands on the wheel. When the sensors fail (weather or poor lane markings), you need to be able to take over immediately. Granting too much autonomy to the system is just too risky (and the point of the article).
React state management patterns in 2019
In your view, what constitutes special? What does a species have to do to be special?
I am aware that PowerShell is somewhat like this — in fact I started using PS before permanently switching to Linux back in 2009 — but I don’t enjoy PS. Some people like PS a lot I know and that’s great for them but for me it’s not something I am ever going to use again. I found my home with Unix those 10 years ago.
Google has an office downtown. They've got a growing engineering team too, mostly in Cloud.
Perhaps so, because those law latencies exceed what the best DACs on the market provided a few years ago, but I don't own any of their gear. I've always considered their hardware to be magic - I know what they're doing all the way down to understanding the mathematics of fourier transforms, and it still blows my mind.
Yup, they do. Most of the Google engineers I know who live in the Mission have been mugged or had their car/house broken into at least once. You just learn to not carry a lot of money or expensive stuff with you.

The reason I say it's classist is that because you have both millionaires and people who are dead broke in the same space, people have invented a lot of subtle social signaling cues to understand just who they are dealing with. Like when my wife & I go house hunting, every realtor asks "Where do you work?", and we answer "Los Altos" and "from home", and then my wife says afterwards "I think they meant which company do you work at?" Or the time I met a black dude on Muni who had a bet with his girlfriend that he could identify techies by sight, because he asked me "Excuse me. Are you a techie?" and then got it right (apparently it was the Columbia fleece that gave it away, which is odd to me because it cost me < $20 off Amazon). Or the realtor who first took me around when I moved out here, showed me a kindy dumpy midtown Palo Alto apartment, then said "It's got a Palo Alto zip. That's important to some people."

Undoubtedly this happens in the rest of the U.S, but it's different in the Bay Area, precisely because wealthy and poor live in such constrained spaces. Many of the social signals of wealth in the rest of the U.S. don't apply here because they're stupid - if you park your Lambo in the Mission, it will get taken for a joyride, if you wear an Armani handbag it will get lifted from your car, and there's no room for your gated community outside of Atherton. Our billionaires are too busy coding, raising capital, rollerblading, and kiteboarding to worry about things like their wardrobe or car. You get startup founders who own companies worth tens of millions and yet use a 5-year-old iPhone with a cracked screen.
That it would be different in inarguable. I feel like I can get on board with the statement that the fact they are no longer the biggest is pretty much equivalent to saying they lost their monopoloy.

In a sense they have a monopoly -- they are the only ones selling Windows. But ... even in the desktop/laptop area they are no longer the beast that they once were. And the prevalence of mobile as a platform means that even their dominance in the desktop/laptop market doesn't mean what it once did.

In office products they have a much stronger position, but the barriers to switching are no longer what they once were. I feel like I can confidently say that Microsoft can no longer coast on their monopoly power, but must actively move forward (with things like Office365) in order to stay competitive.

Are you arguing that even now breaking up OS/Office would be a reasonable thing for the Justice department to pursue? That seems like a barely tenable position.
> Which rights would those be? The obvious "right", the 5th Amendment

...includes the right not be prosecuted for serious offenses without a grand jury indictment. The first clause of the Amendment: “No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury”
Tesla to drop fuel savings ad for Model 3: German industry association
DHS’s Intelligence Overreach: Two Cases Illustrate Risks to Civil Society
How to Start Using the Terminal to Be More Productive
My experience with this is that those 588 calories will satiate you less than a 588 calorie meal elsewhere. (Cooking at home is ideal, but restaurants other than McDonald's will often do better too. Varies a lot with ingredients.)

I also know that 1764 calories is not a huge deficit for me.
It's not about churning out so many kloc's of code - its about solving problems.
Looks great, refreshing view in Oakland!
To your last point, my read on the history of taxis in the USA is that that was roughly what was happening during the early 20th century, until some regulation came along to create artificial barriers to entry. Uber broke down those barriers to entry, which allowed them to disrupt the incumbent taxi companies. But it also means that there's not much to protect them from being disrupted themselves.

The taxi situation in most cities was awful before rideshare came long, and the taxi cartels' rent-seeking behavior produced produced some gross externalities (the lack of any train lines going to LGA comes to mind), so this has perhaps been a net benefit to consumers. But Uber and Lyft are not charities, and that fact has no bearing on their viability as businesses.
Yes, that's common: but I have yet to see a case where the tech track goes as high as the management track. For example, "Distinguished/Staff Engineer" might be the equivalent of a "Senior Director" in an org with two or three levels of management above that (VP, SVP/CTO, EVP, etc.).
As a private business owner I should be able to choose what products are sold and how I wish to receive payment of those products. This is purely heavily government overstep without giving the people who run and own the businesses and services the right to choose. This isn’t going to help the “under banked” but rather just give them a crutch and a bandaid. Giving people the right to choose and helping those that don’t have bank account be able to get one is a far better option in terms of time, resources, and efficiency of combating this issue. When a government begins to use force for non health related issues you know longer began to have a free society.
Sure, just append "unless it turns out we were wrong" to every scientific and mathematical claim if it helps you feel better.
I'm using NextCloud on a DigitalOcean VPS (the files themselves are on a separate volume so the VPS drive can remain small), and it's been really solid. I think the web UI for NextCloud is great, and while the clients for iOS and macOS are not best-in-class compared to, say, Dropbox, they definitely work and get the job done. I love the fact that, at the end of the day, I have a file on a Linux server somewhere that is THE cloud file. It's my data, under my control, and that I'm able to troubleshoot myself. (Compare with a major glitch I had with iCloud Drive on my Mac that Apple never could get fixed for me. I literally to this day have a broken iCloud Drive connection on my MacBook Pro.)
It would be interesting to modify the site to do this automatically -- it measures your progress using the bigram method that you detail instead of using the input directly, and see if that generally makes humans do better.
I’ve read so many of these articles obviously written by someone who has no hands-on experience with the Tesla Autopilot and what it actually does for the driving experience.

Maybe Tesla will get to a point where my TM3 will drive me to work while I nap, or use my phone. One thing that’s pretty amazing is that if they can get to that point, it will come as a free automatic software update or an available for purchase hardware upgrade on my current car.

This month my car will be getting 5% faster acceleration from an OTA update - how cool is that?

But right now, the reality is that I can engage AutoPilot on the highway and it immediately and dramatically changes the driving experience. Instead of focusing on steering the car, I am focused on situational awareness. I am not just looking down my lane, I am looking at the cars around me, who is passing who, what might be coming up around that bend, that guy on his phone next to me, etc.

I can look at over drivers and assess whether they are paying attention and avoid them if needed.

Because the car is actually lane keeping — not what everyone else calls lane keeping which (surprise) is a total lie - but actively steering the car in the lane around curves and centering the car in the lane probably more precisely than I would be if I were steering manually.

I strongly believe, if AutoPilot never truly advanced much beyond its current capability, and as the currently functionality becomes more widespread, we will wonder 15 years from now, how did people operate their vehicles without this level of assistance? How could you be properly aware of your surroundings if you had to be so preoccupied with minor steering inputs?

If you use your phone and watch a movie or put on makeup while driving, you are breaking the law and endangering yourself and those around you.

Every time a new technology comes to cars people say it will distract, or hypnotize, or lull drivers into distraction (see wipers, radios, automatic transmissions, original cruise control) and anyone who has actually driven with AutoPilot knows this feature is no different.

As a Tesla owner I enjoy and appreciate Tesla’s real-world approach to self-driving and it makes my life better and my drive safer. Thank you Tesla.
Damn... I may be more underpaid than I realized... I keep hearing from my employer that they won't pay me comparably to my SF-based co-workers as I'm remote, "Texas is cheap", and "No one there makes over 100k". I think it's time to haggle a bit harder...