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> Someone can really like a languages, but not agree with all the language designer's choices.

Yes, of course.

When writing about `+`, Guido might have chosen to gently chide himself for deciding to break the very first principle he wrote about in his article.

Instead he arbitrarily focused on a couple later principles he didn't break -- and then rudely dissed Perl which deliberately did not break any of the principles he listed in his article.

I really like Python but I do not agree with all Guido's choices in human language and that inappropriate cheap shot at Perl was an example.

> A language designer needs to make tradeoffs

Yes, of course.

As I wrote, Guido chose to write "The template is what it is. Deal with it." in response to someone with poor eyesight requesting he make a one line change.

Twitter is a constrained medium so he presumably felt he needed to tradeoff civility for making his point clear. But:

> I hope we can agree that not every choice needs to be universally accepted. Tolerance != uniformity and bind acceptance.

That was the point of my first reply to you.

I was curious to see if you would agree that Guido's decision to be rude toward Perl in the very context in which he'd just described a flaw in Python according to his own stated principles did not warrant the essentially universal acceptance it got in the reddit python thread.

And, likewise, his rudely dismissive twitter response to a random innocent person reading his article which received far more hearts than those sympathizing with the tweeter with less than perfect eyesight.

> Beyond that: I'm very familiar with Perl 5, Perl 6, and the direction the community is taking the languages, and the Perl culture. I just disagree with some of the language choices.

To recap, I wasn't speaking about disagreement. And not really about Perl either. I was speaking of agreement with Guido's rudeness.
Did you read the link to the EFF page I added to the post? Why should Twitter be considered any more trustworthy than Facebook when they ask me for something they don't need to know?

They can avoid being victimized by spam and propaganda some other way... preferably some other way that I couldn't trivially defeat by giving them the number of a throwaway SIM card or a public phone booth.
Take any 10 people and give them trace amounts of X (whatever X is) over the course of 5 years... they won't respond the same. Some will go through it easier than other. Some may have allergic response, others won't.

As for the general advice to avoid sugars, grains and seed oils. These are all things whose consumption correlates the most to increases in heart attacks, obesity, dementia and many related diseases. They are absolutely not required for anyone and for most of the population consumed in quantities that cannot be justified as healthy or safe.

Eating lots more vegetables (in scale and variety) and some more fruits (keeping sugar manageable) generally corresponds to better health. Regardless of other macro nutrition (though I feel that meat, eggs and fish are fine). "OPTIMAL" historically speaking has mostly come down to cost and availability. Optimal for man, in general comes down to what could be raised, gathered, hunted or foraged relatively locally. That would include regular periods without food, and a few in excess.
I am not familiar with those studies would you mind linking them or referencing the doi? I have a subscription to most science journals so I can read anything you link usually without additional cost.
I would give it more time -- perhaps 6 months total -- and if you're still feeling the way you are now, go back to a development role. If dev to manager is a career change and not a promotion, going from manager to dev is also a career change, and also not a demotion.

In the meantime, work on delegating the stuff you hate about management to others, and keeping work you enjoy to yourself. You probably won't be able to find a perfect balance, but maybe you can find something you can be content with.

It's great that you've made positive impact at your company as a manager, impact that you suspect would not have happened had you not switched tracks, but... you have to look out for yourself, first and foremost. If you're not happy, and don't see a path to becoming happy in your current role, what's the point in staying there?

Also consider that, while you have made some positive impact, you are not unique. Someone else, who maybe actually enjoys what you dislike about management, could likely do as good a job.

Edit: I see from a later post of yours that you've actually been in management 2-3 years. If you haven't been able to make it enjoyable by now, it might be time to just recognize that it's not for you and find a role that you enjoy more.
Twitter knows what IP you connect from, which might easily be through a VPN. The flip side of low-friction authentication is epidemic abuse by trolls, which arguably damages Twitter's brand.

Unfortunately, most people simply don't understand the implications of any of this.

Well, so you say.
thats rad. cant imagine an advertiser doing legitimate spend justification on mau.
I am looking for an angel for http://staticip.io
I think voter ID is important. Even Hostels and Hotels require a state ID to book a hotel room.
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/burden-of-proof
We do care about security and hash the phone numbers after sending the verification SMS (we only need to determine whether a given phone number is associated with a locked account - a hash is good enough for that).

Our problem is that criminals open hundreds of accounts with fake data and stolen credit card data, abuse our services until we get abuse complaints or detect it and lock them, then repeat that. This leads to legitimate customers suffering from bad IP reputation and is expensive to clean up.

Requiring phone numbers and blacklisting known throwaway providers has been extremely effectively in preventing this, without generating complaints from our legitimate customers. We don't want to use browser fingerprinting or other intrusive mechanisms for detecting sybil registrations.

What else do you suggest we do?
in the UK you can wander into any phone shop and get 5 SIMs for free

also: the phone companies allow you to receive SMS without putting a penny on them
> I do have a Google voice number, but I noticed one or two places recently that won't accept that anymore.

Mind sharing where? I've use my Google Voice number exclusively for 6 or 7 years now. Can't say I've ever ran into such a thing.
I have a few legacy twitter accounts for sale... $50 each
With the efficiency savings from a nationalised entity 2-3x is a stretch, yes people will probably pay more tax, that tax will be significantly lower than what they probably pay for private medical care.
It removes the onus on Employers to provide medical care as a "requirement", it provides people who cant afford medical care a choice of treatment rather than just 'dying'.
You may dislike Twitter (I do) but it is a large thing that exists and appears to provide sufficient value to people that dismissing it as 'silliness' just sounds empty-headed and naive.
And here is a comparison with an actual mouse (first try on a Logitech Master MX 2s):

TOTAL SCORE: 386; TARGET EFFICIENCY: 80%; CLICK ACCURACY: 89%

Am I the only one who uses a mouse whenever possible, no matter how 'good' the trackpad is?

The Logitech Master Anywhere 2s (the smaller version of the mouse I used above) is very portable, very accurate (even on glass), has excellent battery life and works well with bluetooth. It really isn't much of a hassle to bring it along anywhere you go.
A good trick is to tell doctors your in-law (or something) is a doctor and recommended asking your regular doctor about treatment X. They're more likely than not to start considering that option seriously.
If there are enough people like you, I'm sure they'll find some way to accommodate you. Maybe they will accept a scan of your passport or ask for a bank account number or some other piece of data that makes it at least a tiny bit harder to open an account.
Phone numbers are from the stone age... do you really think that they'll stick around?
But why do you require phone numbers instead of offering them as an option alongside email? What about people who don't have a mobile number?
to get $700 in rewards, you have to charge $35,000 on it, that's almost $3,000 monthly. I guess that would be doable if including rent and utilities (I doubt you can pay a mortgage with credit), but yes, more than the annual fee is definitely easy. Especially the first year in which you get the 50,000 bonus plus no fee.
Same with some Hawaiian Airlines flights :)
Since when does nationalizing anything make it more efficient?

Even assuming the best case scenario where something is more efficient at the time it was created, you still end up with something that not only doesn't become more efficient with time, it often becomes less efficient with time when it's government-run.
And they've been trying to collect phone numbers for years. Any time an account is suspended, they try to require a phone number for it to log back in, for example.
I think they are trying to with the Marcus brand. Once Goldman became a bank holding company, it made it hard for them to operate a large prop trading unit and other more alternative areas. I think Goldman felt that since it had to operate more like a bank with a bank charter, why not become a bank? It would be interesting to see the financials behind the Apple & Goldman deal as Goldman probably needs Apple more than Apple needs Goldman given the CAC on banking is very high.
As someone who has lived in the UK with an amazing free healthcare system and now Australia who has a more complex model - but basically still universal free healthcare for the most part - I can safely say I took the NHS for granted in the UK.
Australia is pretty good - most stuff will get fixed free, and they are at least transparent about where your tax goes (We have a Medicare Levy that is paid as a specific % of income, and a Medicare Levy Surcharge if you earn above a certain amount and don't take out private medical care).

Private Healthcare is offered as a perk to employees, not as an expected part of the package.

However - the article header sums this up - "Could Eliminate the 600B Private Insurance Industry" - Money talks and if you think for a second the super rich people running these companies give a shit over your welfare vs their money you are sorely mistaken.

This would always fall at the first hurdle - and if by some magic measure something passed (Obamacare for example) - the next person would just repeal it.
But on Something Awful, it was a feature, not a problem.
It’s clear we can only go up from the dumpster fire that is privatized US healthcare, and other nations have proven nationalization to be effective.

If you have a problem with the effectiveness of government, run for office or find a government job instead of complaining.
This is actually a better example of a cyber attack than OP, which was really just steganography.
> Your only choice as individual user is to leave the platform.

That's not even enough anymore. You also have to make sure that every one of your contacts do not upload their address book to conveniently find friends like you who may or may not be on the network. And that they don't tag you in images, events, etc.

You're an entry in the Facebook database, whether you have or have had an active profile or not.
> Like Apple?

The way Bose succeeds is that they are willing to market to the majority tastes, and they are willing to use vertical integration to deliver a great user experience with ok to good performance using cheaper hardware.

I have no idea if this can apply to security and Conway's Law. Apple is serious about security, because they are serious about payments. They are willing to put clean architecture before backwards compatibility.
There could be an edge, but it's definitely not within the distance we can see out. The main mind-bender is that there's no need for an edge.
No, why would he? They're completely different. Twitter is nothing at all like a phone number.
> but there are minimums on how much work must be performed for NHS

So basically doctors are not free in the UK?
I'm the last person to talk about art, but from a technology standpoint I think the end result would have been better if something that supported keyframes was used, like https://www.synfig.org/ or blender.

Keyframes would have made it easier to have 4x the number of frames making it smoother and easier to tell what is going on. Also, I'm sure it would have been more work to get started, but building up vector versions of things using bones would make it easier to put together the 2nd+ animation.
> Turns out that phone numbers, whilst also subject to flux, have better long-term congruence to identity

I'm not sure this is actually true, at least in the long-term. Most people keep their phone number for a long time, but if they ever cancel their phone service, the number usually gets recycled and given to someone else (unlike an email, which almost never gets re-used). If you're storing any kind of sensitive data, and allowing people to access it as long as they can verify their phone number, it could end up being a pretty serious privacy risk. It could also stop people from signing up for your service - if I get a new phone number, and the previous owner of the number has already signed up, what am I supposed to do?
Features I'd like them to add:

* Timestamps on each article

* colour code issues across all sites (for example, all articles related to the ASUS hack could have a light pink background colour, to group them together)
I'm sure you're right. I honestly wouldn't be surprised to learn it's already started.

The escalating warfare will continue. I'm not sure where it'll go from here, but I'm sure it won't be fun for people that value privacy.
I'm hoping they have a theme system that's easy enough to create new color pallets. Material Design's guidelines do spell this out.
> it seems similarly risky to just give in and go back to pure code, and give up on this managerial aspect.

Why do you say that? It certainly depends on company and industry, but there are many companies that have a parallel individual-contributor track where you can achieve a level (that is: seniority, benefits, compensation) analogous to management-track Senior Director or VP.
Nice site, really useful. I'd love if you were able to directly input smaller numbers e.g Emirates 88 instead of having to input Emirates 088.
I thoroughly believe that late fees and such are taxes on poverty and contribute to inequality, but I feel like without at least a nominal one, people will just pay bills late all the time. I suppose they’ve done research on this but it seems risky.
Passion doesn't equal competence. It doesn't matter if they're passionate about doing interviews, sometimes that even makes it worse because they think they are raising the "hiring bar" but instead doing a really bad job at interviewing.
The disinterested engineer doing an interview is less harmful than this type of passionate engineer interviewing.

The current broken system started with Google. They had a hiring problem, too many candidates to interview. So what did they do? Apply principles used for scaling computer systems. Treat each employee engineer as a generic interviewer who can give a generic algorithm question. Scale across all engineering teams to handle the candidate load. That's the Google way, apply algorithmic scaling to everything.
It works except when the fundamental problem is a human issue like hiring and customer service. It's bad system but they get so many candidates it doesn't matter. And the company is successful, success hides all failures.

So other engineers in much smaller companies get asked to interview their future teammates. Sounds great in theory. But passionate or not, they have no idea how to do it. So they just cargo cult the big tech companies. Completely clueless copying of a system that was created for a problem they don't have (massive number of candidates).

Only the manager and lead engineer should be involved. They need to take back control and leave the juniors out of it.
The UK recently passed laws for Middle Lane Hoggers so they can get fined. Needs to happen here in Australia as well!
However that's a specific type of plane that may have crashed for unrelated but improbable reasons.

In geenral flying on a scheduled airline is immensely safe. A 777 is no safer or no less safe than an A340.

Unless you fly air france and they decide to divert to Damascus in the middle of a civil war and have a whip round to pay the fuel bill [0], in which case the solution is Don't Fly Air France.

[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/...
Migrated a substantial project today and other than updating a pod and fixing a few warnings it’s been smooth sailing. Probably my smoothest swift migration yet. Won’t be surprised if Swift 6 breaks almost nothing!
I believe part of the point is that we often go beyond bike-shedding to off-topic bike-shedding. Something written in X language turns into a discussion of whether X is a good language. An announcement from company Y becomes a discussion of everything else Y has ever done. It's a website and has a design, so let's discuss web design.

On-topic bike-shedding would actually be an improvement.

I believe this happens most often with announcements that are legitimate news but kind of boring. The larger, generic topic is more interesting and it's sorta related, so it's more attractive to talk about that.

A possible solution: be more interesting. Tell a story.
> Looking back at the incident now, one can see that the French semaphore system was hopelessly insecure,...

Actually, this would have been an ideal application of one-time-pads for end-to-end encryption of the sensitive information, needing no modern tech beyond pencil and paper. The pads could have been passed by hand between participants and would have been highly secure.
Going Deeper into the RouteComposer Configuration
The exact same thing happened to me a few months ago.
You also can’t reuse the phone number across different accounts, so I am locked out of about ten of my usernames (locked for “suspicious activity” even though they have been idle for a year or more) unless I give Burner or someone else a ton of money. It sucks.
Matter Waves and Quantum Splinters
Not sure you're into podcasts, but I recommend Manager Tools Podcasts, which is like a 15-year gold mine of free training.
https://www.manager-tools.com/all-podcasts

Outside of searching the keywords "interview" and "hiring" and looking for what seems relevant, I'd recommend specifically the 4 "Management Trinity" episodes and "Juggling Koan".

source: 5-year manager at a public SaaS company in the Midwest, recently discovered the podcast.
React Performance Tips
This is why you should block ads and trackers even if you're not a Facebook user. I have blocked all their domains in my hosts file also.
I think it's invasive by means of explicitly violating the rules of almost every community. For example, /r/anime has a rule that says that all posts have to be anime-specific, which my website is not. I messaged the mods to confirm this and they also said it is not allowed. Similarly, 4chan has a "no advertising" rule and more importantly it is strongly ingrained into the culture that you don't post things that can link you to some kind of "identity". Even posting your own youtube videos there is met with disdain.

I do think what I've made is useful and it was expliclty made to scratch my own itch (and I've been using it for months by myself) but I am just not comfortable going into communities, most of which I would not have otherwise visited, to do something that probably violates the rules or at least looks a lot like spam.
Perhaps you need to disable HTTPS Everywhere — the link in this post is HTTP, not HTTPS.
Fascinating. This looks like a useful resource for learning about making progressive web apps with service workers. I bookmarked it.
Is there a limit to how many times I can download my backups?
Because of the card, data must be in the cloud but it is most likely encrypted and keys are on your device that is why Apple can claim that they don't know anything about what you buy. This doesn't change the fact that GS and MC does know where are you shopping. The only good thing about this card are fees and cashback, everything else is either nothing new or special (not sure about Apple card, but where i am from most CCs come with travel insurance as well).
YMMV. A lot of the startups in my circle now offer sabbaticals. I get it’s not even remotely common in non tech related jobs, but in tech jobs in the US it’s absolutely on the rise. I wouldn’t call it rare anymore.

I get that’s a very heavy anecdotal answer but my day job has me interact with a lot of companies from a people / performance perspective, so I see a lot of these policies first hand. It’s also come up in five of the fifteen most recent mentoring conversations I’ve had (just went and double checked my notes).

Can’t really produce anything more concrete than that for you, unfortunately. No clue what the hard data is. Might just be some weird bias based on the type of work I do.

-- EDIT --

Switched to my laptop and found an HBR article saying it's about 17% of companies. So, doesn't seem that rare.

https://hbr.org/2017/08/research-shows-that-organizations-be...
From a UK perspective this card doesn’t make much sense as Monzo or Revolut are probably way better products. For the US there is pretty much zero competitors as banks are stuck in the past.

As for storing transactions on device only, there’s probably an encrypted backup on iCloud.
Kubernetes 1.14 released
Safest bet may be to just embed Chromium or Firefox's engine respectively. Chrome may or may not be easier from what I've seen and should give fairly good cross platform support. Though should be modular, as any applications using it will pick up some bulk.
Very interesting. A less clever but very similar attack, certainly inspired by this, is the described in the great classic "the Count of Monte Cristo", written ten years later. The Count manages to ruin one of his enemies by bribing a semaphore operator in transmitting news of a political unrest in Spain, causing a collapse in the value of foreign bonds (if I remember the details correctly).
Is this any better than Monzo/Revolut?