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Adjunct skills for an older product manager?
I'm a 40 y/o product manager in NYC. It's fine, but I'm a little unsatisfied without opportunities to contribute in a non-managerial way. What should I learn?

Background: I've been in product/project management for about half of my career, infosec and technical writing before that. Picked up a lot of junior to mid-level programming and sysadmin experience along the way, but never worked f/t/e in those capacities. I doubt I'll ever make a particularly strong developer at this point, but I enjoyed pen testing, QA, and being the de facto devops/IT guy in previous roles. I do feel like I don't have a lot of consolidated experience outside of management, and I'd really like something hands-on that a) has some unambiguous, basic progression paths, b) lets me build or modify something directly, and c) ideally, but not necessarily, could lead to better leverage in salary negotiations. N.B. I am not necessarily looking for a career transition or seeking self-employment.

My feeling is that it would probably be a good use of time to consolidate my understanding of at least one cloud hosting environment (e.g., AWS, Azure) and get some devops skills around that. It would make it easier for me to get products up and out without needing to be a brilliant coder. I appreciate that anything security-related is valued, but I feel like I've been "out of the game" for too long to know what would be worth skilling up on.

FWIW, I currently work in a .NET/Azure environment, my background is strongly Linux/Unix, and I have strong feelings about neither. I am ecumenical about computing environments.
> It's hard to train for something that doesn't exist according to Boeing

From the article:

> The so-called dead-head pilot on the earlier flight from Bali to Jakarta told the crew to cut power to the motor driving the nose down, according to the people familiar, part of a checklist that all pilots are required to memorize.

Clearly only one of the pilots memorized the checklist, but they were all required to do so. Presumably the pilots who crashed the plane the next day didn't memorize it either.
If you want Star Trek ( and so do I, of course :) ) then the simplest way I can imagine has to be with headsets as currently is.

Making them imperceptible, if that is even so important, has some challenges but not impossible (e.g. increasing resolution, lowering weight, or even adding devices to compensate its weight if the former is infeasible).
Not sure why this is being downvoted beyond just not liking unions? It's literally a fact. Members decide what their collective goals are. In cases like nursing in California under staffing and long hours are the issues they are most concerned about above salary.
So they’re proposing to use WiFi to connect to other phones, right? And the only way to exchange data from me (pointA) to somewhere else (pointB) is to have a chain of phone users connecting my location to pointB. And how close would each connection need to be? It’s not like cellphones have antennae the size of cellular towers. So stupid.

And assuming this could magically work, do you need to build an entire new phone? Or can it just be a software problem? That way you could defer to cellular network in cases where this would inevitably fail.
Firms will often do things like claiming they are not firing you, they are closing out the role because the business need that the role required no longer exists. A couple of months later they will float a job posting with similar specs and under the plausibility that business requirements have changed yet again.
Yes, it's been a longstanding issue and the ICS security space has been heating up the past few years as a result of the increasing awareness of the problem. There are quite a few companies trying to bring OT network security into the modern age but it's a slow moving field. We've been looking at the number of Internet-exposed industrial control systems and they've been increasing around 10% year over year despite all the news coverage/ attacks.

[1] https://icsmap.shodan.io

[2] https://ics-radar.shodan.io

[3] https://exposure.shodan.io/#/US
If their homes were rezoned for skyscraper development their quarter acre that could host a hundred apartments vertically on it alone would go from 1.5m to 150m overnight.

The NIMBYs are going against their own economic self interest by resisting density, they are just petrified with fear that their house is the one just outside the criticality zone where developers would buy all the land for exorbitant money to build a metro and their area would become some sort of forsaken blight or be bulldozed at "fair market rate" via eminent domain to build the infrastructure to support that density.
No - higher productivity made it _possible_ but unionized workers fought and died to make it actually happen.
One watt wouldn't be a problem at that distance, but any frequency this can operate on requires line-of-sight or close to it. "Several miles away" might be realistic in the middle of a desert, but in areas with hills or lots of large buildings? Not likely.

Generally speaking, line-of-sight is almost always what limits point-to-point comm range for handhelds, rather than raw power. On higher frequencies, even vegetation can be a big deal.
Math isn't correct because most of that 30 years of work is interest on the mortgage, which the realtor doesn't get a cut of.
The article says that all of the pilots were supposed to know what to do in this situation:

> The so-called dead-head pilot on the earlier flight from Bali to Jakarta told the crew to cut power to the motor driving the nose down, according to the people familiar, part of a checklist that all pilots are required to memorize.

This guy didn't go off script. It seems like he was the only one of the three who knew the script.
There are plenty of java projects that change apis. Comparing a framework to a language is stupid.
> If you can't make yourself stand out with the same amount of hours as your coworkers, then maybe you should come to terms with the fact that you just aren't exceptional.

Or perhaps different people prioritize different things and who are you to judge or say otherwise?
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Yeah, that's part of the checklist for runaway trim (which I've posted in a previous comment). That same checklist says to stop if the stabilizer stops moving after you counter with trim button input. MCAS stops after you counter with the trim buttons.
It feels different from their runaway stabilizer training. MCAS has a delay between each motion, whereas a runaway stabilizer is much more aggressive.
No, because Apple do not have a dominant position in the smartphone market within the EU. Google pay Apple billions of dollars a year to make Google the default search engine on iOS devices, which was a significant factor in the European Commission's ruling against Google.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_competition_law...

http://fortune.com/2018/09/29/google-apple-safari-search-eng...
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US pilots say they didn't either. The training wasn't out there.
Old-fashioned? Union busting has never gone out of style.
I get the desire to turn biomass into vehicle fuel.
I don't get the desire to involve hydrogen.

Biomass-derived syngas has to be substantially better in energy density and efficiency than any kind of hydrogen.

The leading industrial use for hydrogen is in oil refining, so if you outcompete conventional steam reformed hydrogen on price, you're just going to make gasoline cheaper.
Clearly only one of the pilots memorized the checklist

I've already posted the checklist. If you've memorized the checklist you'd know that it says to stop if the trimming stops once you hit the push buttons on the yoke. MCAS stops trimming when you manually input opposite trim (and you can see this on the black box graphs from the preliminary report).
The behavior of NIMBYs is a microcosm reflection of why wealth inequality is so detrimental for democracy. The property owners of major metro areas have both a vested interest in defending their profitability and crowd out those who want to be residents but cannot because of barriers put up by the owner class.

NIMBYs dominate SF politics because only NIMBYs can live in SF, which is exactly analogous to how business lobbyists dominate the rotunda of the Capital in DC because only multinational globalist corporations can afford to play the hardball bribes to get congress under their heel and crowd out everyone else with their money.

In both cases, when a few have a ludicrous amount of money / power and everyone else is left poor, the rich silence the rest and hold all the power.
Still seems like this is a big guess that sequestration works over long periods, or at all at the scale necessary to be industrially significant. I’m inherently sceptical of anything hydrogen related due to the fuel’s association with delay tactics from the carbon industry. Chevron would prefer we all not buy electric cars in hopes of HFC becoming a real thing which, obviously, is just a farce to keep paying them to produce, transport, and sell solid fuel. I think we are better off as a society not burning carbon at all, not looking for places to put carbon polution.
There is fierce competition for employees in tech, but the hours seem to be normalized at 50+...
Maybe software should be payed for per second usage?

Implemented as a charge added to cloud usage costs.

Terms of use and terms of agreement machine readable and included in public available source code.

Code publically available, publically built and cryptographically tagged by usage and licensing Metadata. Like a smart contract.

Anyone who used the code would automatically be billed by the cloud provider on the license holder behalf.

This would align incentives better and enforce the openness of the source as a byproduct.

(the licensing should ideally be built into the platform, which should be vendor neutral, e.g. K8s and maybe the license could waive cost collection for self hosted use on own hardware)
The degree to which Richard Stallman lives on another planet, entirely divorced from the reality of human behavior, cannot be overstated.

We can't even get people to ditch facebook when it is obviously and actively harmful to them on almost every dimension because people simply do not care. The idea that any of them would futz around trying to compile drivers from source code is ludicrous.
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The usual, cost. But I wonder how much the redundant sensor costs for airlines to ditch it.
Rather, I'd say the critical points are that systemd has critical issues it absolutely should not be having, with the state of tooling we have today (taint analysis, heck, even a good linter might have been able to find this!). When the last thing came out someone I know told me that they had just glanced through the codebase and were not surprised that it had bugs like this; I think his exact words were something like "you don't have code like this in 2019".
Comparing these places to the Bay Area would probably be more appropriate.
Oh, so you mean that on 32-bit Windows, processes (can) have an address space that is smaller than the sum of physical RAM + page file? I didn't know that.

It makes sense then.
I would gladly pay with Bitcoin on the Lightning network to get internet access, but the market is not ready yet.
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All these additional CPU/GPU require additional power and cooling capacity.

It's the challenge of edge computing datacenter design.
That will go really well. If there is one thing people love, it is moral conundrums related to electronic appliances.
Apple don't stand to profit from making Safari the default/only browser on iOS. Google have a significant financial interest in directing Android users towards Google search.

The relevant law is Article 102 of the Treaty of the Functioning of the EU, which prohibits an abuse of a dominant position within the common market. Apple don't have a dominant position in the smartphone market, with a share of around 28%; it's not clear that Safari is in any way abusive, rather than simply a legitimate technical decision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_competition_law...
It wasn't the right time for OnLive. The tech wasn't there, in networking infrastructure (the internet), compute infrastructure (DC tech), or hardware (graphics cards).

To that last point; it is impossible to understate how fundamentally important Nvidia's Pascal architecture has been to the development of both gaming and AI. In my mind, its the most important computing chipset invented in the 2010s, and belongs among the "world's greatest" chips next to the Intel Core architecture, Apple's A-series, Pentium, and the 8086. It put Nvidia, quite literally, 5 years ahead of the competition almost overnight; AMD is still catching up, three years later, to the perf-per-dollar and perf-per-watt of the GTX 1080.

That chipset, and the cards that were made with it (GTX 1080/1080Ti namely) were the first indication that DC rendering with a stream-to-client architecture was actually possible for video gaming. Before that it was hard to make an economic case for it.

OnLive was purchased by Sony, and its easy to conclude that they repurposed their tech for their Playstation Now service. So it lives on.
Apparently because their special phones have "new, long-range radio hardware" that makes this all possible.

But radio technologies are pretty widely understood and while I'm no expert I've not heard of anything that could achieve what they're suggesting. So I'll remain skeptical until I understand better what that "long-range radio hardware" is and how it makes such a mesh network feasible.
In addition to all of these good things, you can also use groovy which has a ton of shorthand syntax and makes writing code super easy. Groovy also makes writing tests short and simple. I love java and all jvm languages honestly.
Then just imagine if shipping tankers became electrified. The world's 6 largest shipping tankers produce more CO2 than all the world's personal vehicles combined.
You're getting downvoted for trivializing the user confusion around replacing it, but when I first got Android I did want to get rid of it, and originally didn't know how.

So this is potentially useful information if you've gotten to this point in the thread and are suddenly saying, "wait, I can remove that?"
The key problem I think, with higher education, is that we force students to take classes in the name of liberal education. If no one is required to take a class, then students might not take that class, which leads to that professor's usefulness, and perhaps career, coming into question. If anything universities are increasing not only the number of classes a student has to take, but also increasing seemingly-pointless labs and other classes taught by graduate students, so they can then pay those GTA's. It's almost like a pyramid scheme.
We always have to weigh costs and benefits. But it's easy to make enough compromises and forget that your decisions were impure. That's why you have to have purists laying out what exactly it is you're compromising on, whether it be the FSF or your local church.

Ideally we want to live something close to the "pure" lifestyle and also get the convenience we want. That requires dedication on the part of programmers to get us closer and closer to it. You can't get that kind of dedication from people who are halfway dedicated.
You known, ML researchers are aware of the enormous body of research in optimization. A lot of these methods simply do not work or scale well to deep neural networks. Second order methods have been tried and are not worth the cost.
Was referring to the biomass. So at 10-20 tons per day, I'm guessing you go through a hopper worth roughly every 10-15min?
If everyone in my department walked out and a new team had to be hired, they'd just be screwed. There's not enough documentation and the system is pretty complicated, with bits of it hiding everywhere and a bunch of ancient code that we never got around to refactoring (especially after they laid off half our department and another half quit afterwards, without replacement).

I'm sure whenever I get a new job and resign they're going to be like 'oh shit', because there's just not anyone left to replace what I do, really (I'm the last person in the department with a good amount of knowledge on their proprietary and stupid complicated phone systems, and they've kept me too swamped to be able to do any knowledge transfer worth a damn).

And in phone systems, there's always something going wrong or down, it seems like, often network related.
It's a tough call. I do see the logic in what you're saying, but when I read things like this, he seems more like PETA than anything else: actively harmful to his movement. Basically a walking, talking strawman.
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I am familiar with gini coefficient...I don’t understand the relevance of the video tho’...if you want to normalize the gini coefficient, then all welfare programs and benefits have to be scrapped. Minimum wages and rent controls have to be abolished. No more affordable housing quota by the state.

So I am confused why you’d bring that up..unless you support the measures above. When free market forces take over, things will fall into place.

Further, there is also nothing wrong with social unrest. We don’t live in a vacuum where everything is frozen. Social unrest leads to paradigm shifting changes in society. This is why things change and don’t stay the same for ‘thousands of years’.

Go attempt to protect society from social unrest is symptomatic of a saviour complex that is irresponsible and dangerous.

Milton Friedman was my thesis subject in college. I get Thomas Sowell too. I just don’t understand your stance.

Octavia Butler didn’t finish the Parable series. Writer’s block. Maybe there was a reason why..badly plotted.

You say: ‘Principles are important’. True. But your principles are important only to you. I may define mine differently.

We are not rational animals but we are all ‘rationalising’ creatures. I don’t see the relevance either bring to this discussion.
You can actually run production ready db in k8s pretty easily. There is volume and stateful set and DNS, I could see limit to what it could run.
This is actually called a PEO (professional employment organization) and is often used for small companies looking to hire workers in foreign countries. The PEO becomes the employer of record and the employee is assigned 100% of the time to the foreign company. It’s pretty neat.
The runaway stabilizer trim procedure is how it was expected to be handled:

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/faa-order-tells-h...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pPRuFHR1co

The specifics of MCAS weren't out there because Boeing expected the pre-existing procedure to have been sufficient. That procedure wasn't sufficient, or the Lion and Ethiopian Air pilots were somehow not aware of it, or they forgot their training in a stressful situation.

To be clear: the planes should not have put these pilots into the situation they were in, but unless the recovery procedure doesn't work, these planes should not have crashed.

[One thing I've been wondering: somehow the pilots were able to bring the nose back up... it was only (apparently) after multiple nose downs that they eventually failed to recover the plane. What was going on there? It's as if they understood how to correct the stabilizer trim, but weren't aware of the cut-off switches.]
> Given this property of the Internet, and the decision of open source/Free Software to embrace rather than fight this property, what side-channels can be constructed to return some value to the developers?

One interesting execution of this is https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/. Develop awesome FOSS, aided in part by the community, and scare enterprise users into paying for it by using the restrictive-through-forced-openness AGPL license.

To be perfectly clear, I don't think this is bad, just interesting. And I understand that RStudio also makes money through SaaS offerings, but that's not as interesting.
In the scenario the seller is gaining $200K by waiting two months. You think she should forgo this money to save everyone else's time looking at her ads?

I personally try and be a polite person, but I'm not $200K polite.
> By no means are their OSS investments altruistic

why does anything have to be altruistic? Why can't a company invest in OSS selfishly? The results are the same - more OSS available for anybody else to use.

> OSS developers aren't winning.

what's "winning" here? Is winning gaining financial profit from OSS? Is winning gaining user/market share? Is winning just merely being employed to do what you want to (i.e., employed to contribute to OSS)? And why is any one of those definitions more worthy than any other?
That’s surprising to me. Do you have any references for that?

Why are the ships so emissive?
Basically, http://freakonomics.com/2008/02/26/real-estate-agents-revisi...
Redundant wings? Fuselage? Just 2 obvious examples, back to my armchair.
Various pilot unions aren't mincing words. Here's one quote:

"This is the first description you, as 737 pilots, have seen,” the message from the pilots association at American reads. “It is not in the American Airlines 737 Flight Manual … nor is there a description in the Boeing FCOM (Flight Crew Operations Manual). It will be soon.”

It doesn't seem unreasonable to me that the jumpseat rider made an educated guess based on some prior experience. Aided by the fact that he didn't have other things to do besides observing.
Also, if the realtor is part of a bigger company, they don't keep all 3%.
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It would rock if someone wrote a VHDL frontend for Yosys. You could then use Yosys to convert to Verilog for use with all the other open source tools.
I wonder if they might condescend to utilize the JVM so I don't have to compile JMC myself for another 5 months, or maybe at least they'll remove their circular links that infuriatingly obscure the fact JMC binaries don't currently exist. For the past 5 months.
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Could you say put solar panels on large tankers?
About $150k a year.
How advanced is the hydrogen production prototype?

Looking at the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_reforming this looks like a difficult process, even when using methane that is a very small molecule and is easy to purify. Big molecules in grass are more eager to produce soot that would block the machine, and grass also has other elements like Nitrogen and Phosphorus that may react with the catalyzer, and there is the ash problem.

Is using a grass more efficient that burning the grass and use the energy to produce Hydrogen with the standard method?

What about producing ethanol from the grass and then using the ethanol to make the Hydrogen? (Both parts are somewhat proven technology.) And ethanol is easy to move and purify than grass.
I’ve had excellent public school teachers, and have also heard horror stories about private school teachers from my friends.