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So Tesla is going to enter an industry that actively loses money based on an autonomy play that doesn't exist and isn't even legal on most U.S. roads?
tons of fun reads on the site.
Do you have any internal guidelines for ensuring these sorts of public announcements have a neutral, compassionate tone? To me, it feels like it would be easy to read this article as being more empathetic to the tools than the users, and to interpret it as blaming the users for using the tools wrong: authors for adding a new distribution to a release post-hoc, instead of creating a new release; or consumers for not carefully vetting packages to ensure there’s a matching distribution for their platform & not using source distros.

I feel like, as a representative of the tool it’s easy for readers to default to understanding any criticism (even the slightest) of user behaviour & no discussion about tool behaviour as being defensive of the tools.

I know the Python package tools community value their users and would never dream of suggesting that they’re using the tools the wrong way. How important do you feel it is to recognise/appreciate those users in user-facing messaging?
>> They tried to change the developer's plans

They suggested the developer change plans. I agree it was a bit of a dick move to suggest that and I think an apology and training is in order, but... I'm surprised there's a need to "issue a statement".
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I agree fully with your assessment.

I'd also add: much of the culture and thinking surrounding Agile grew out of software consultancies: organizations that have the privilege of green-fielding new projects and then "abandoning" them; either because their contract was over, or there's no desire (or capital) from stakeholders to improve the software. So it doesn’t surprise me that their model breaks down for software that undergoes continuous modification for years, as that’s an atypical case for consultancies.
This is strange to me, canteens are very common in Eastern Europe and I assumed they exist everywhere, I'm guessing it's due to the cooking styles, we do a lot of soups and stews which are perfect for this.
So humans that can barely drive a single vehicle will now be responsible for monitoring 20 vehicles in highly different environments that change at a moments notice?
I have been putting thought into a social platform that would truly be for users and not just a gamification of attention.

- First it would have a cost, either in money to pay someone to develop/run the platform or in time/knowledge to tinker with some open-source solution. That shouldn't be a problem as the target market is the group of people who are making a conscious choice to dodge the ad platform. BUT it does severely reduce the network effect, possibly down to the point of becoming an ultra-specialized niche club.

- Then, there's the point you bring up: you'll essentially be trying to sell steamed broccoli inside of a candy store.
At some point, foreign nations are different and we just have to deal with it.

Inherent human rights are universal. The closer the world comes to this ideal, the better life is for more people.

For an extreme example of this issue, look at the Middle East. They have simply never taken to democracy, and a good number of people are of the opinion it is simply an issue with their culture.

According to the level of democracy in nations throughout the world published by Freedom House and various other freedom indices, the Middle Eastern and North African countries with the highest scores are Israel, Tunisia, Turkey, Lebanon, Morocco, and Kuwait.

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

Democracy, to the extent which it's established in Europe and the United States, is the result of a long process. Many of the Middle Eastern countries are still dealing with their mainstream religion claiming to override all laws and national sovereignty. By that measure, they are over a dozen generations behind the west in that process.
> yadayadayada

You claim all of these to be unique characteristics, then wave off all reasonable (and in some cases, strong) arguments to the contrary that the Valley is hard to beat.

If it’s “hard to beat” because of X, Y, Z, and there are many other places with better examples of X, Y, and Z qualities, then there’s little about the position that should make SF “unique” or “sought after.”

Climate + outdoors + good job prospects are pretty much everywhere. In fact, you might be able to enjoy them more in other spots because of better commutes (less driving and/or better public transit,) better living conditions, and more purchasing power (lower prices on everything + lower rents / housing prices.)

But I guess the views are nice...?
I do most of my C++ dev on Linux and I prefer it that way, for the reasons you mentioned.

However, Windows has great tools too. And by that, I mean Visual Studio. In particular, I really miss its debugger when I am on Linux.

It is just a different philosophy with its pros and cons. On one side, you have a lot of small, loosely coupled tools, text files and command lines. On the other you have a well integrated monolith and GUI.
You did God's work, son. As a bitter veteran of the browser wars, thank you.
I think there are two problems with this:

1) call centers already have software to record calls and quantify results

2) Google have only ever provided the minimum support mandated by consumer protection laws, none at all wherever they're not compelled to provide it, it's a huge leap to go from that to improving call centers...
My old small town has one...it is still there after years... This city / village has 14.000 people there. No idea how this shop survives. But it seems to work. Or they are tax evasion scams. Who knows.
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A lot of government computers around this part of the world are Dell computers. Hopefully enterprise customers get fresh Windows installations.
Dell Computers running Windows, it looks like?
Kudos for looking into it, and offering a correction. If you don't trust Romero's account for some reason, you can find this corroborated by Carmack (his only answer on Quora [1]).

[1] https://www.quora.com/profile/John-Carmack
Probably has nothing to do with the fact that a lot of LIDAR related tech and research now belong to Waymo and Uber. Add to this the cost of LIDAR and it starts making sense that anyone (re)starting in this field would avoid LIDAR and go for the cheaper and more accessible option.
They risked their jobs for the greater good. Absolute heroes.
>if Google/Waymo simply offers a similar service for cheaper right next to you

Right, if, tesla currently has the advantage being ahead, they have self driving (at some level) currently deployed for masses.
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> I was calling your standard impossibly high

Except... you are arguing against a cartoon of what I said. You even intentionally edited it out to make it seem like I am being unreasonable. I'll post your quote with the missing part included:
"amount of time needlessly"

Needlessly. An important part of what I said. If you aren't wasting peoples time needlessly, you are within my standard. Therefore, my standard isn't unrealist.

Let's be clear about the chain of events:

mikepurvis complains about cell phone use during red lights.
tasty_freeze posts saying: why is this an issue

rconti tries to take a middle ground by saying 'he does the phone checking at a red light to, but he is highly consious of other people and he notices that many who check it during a red light aren't as concious and implores other people to be so. He explains the chain effect of how a few seconds of your delay can cause several minutes of delay to other people.

Dylan16807, you, post how this knock on effect would only happen if there were 'more than a hundred people stopped directly behind' (as if that is impossible) Furthermore you state:
"And that's assuming the entire pack of cars doesn't just catch back up to the one in front of you, where you had to wait anyway, dropping the actual time loss back to about zero"

Which sounds a hell of a lot like denial through minimizing. So I post saying:
"even if it is 'about zero'... any amount of time needlessly taken from other humans against their consent isn't cool right?"

It seems like a statement you seem to agree to but haven't stated as much.

Instead, you edited my words to try and prove the point that I have 'unrealistic expectations'.

To me, it sounds like you feel like arguing. Though I might be missing your point, so feel free to clarify what that point is and how it is relevant to the chain of communication as originally posted and recaped on this post.
The Peter Principle has always struck me as an unnecessarily pessimistic way of looking at the world. Why should we find it surprising that when workers are promoted into a role with a greater -- and often vastly different -- responsibilities than what they have experience with, they are not immediately competent? This is especially true when the skills required are non trivial.

Maybe rather than assuming that people come out of the womb "competent" or "incompetent" at a certain level, we could consider providing more training and support both before and after they are promoted into significantly higher roles.
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The advantage of the Olympics is that it helps to steamroll over NIMBY objection and ensure that politicians are actually willing to commit funding to transit projects.
This was a really great read. Thanks for sharing and thanks for putting the nail in the IE6 coffin.
Nice article showing how Maduro regime uses social media:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/04/30/social-...
For clarity: your hard scifi novel will include images in its prose?
Eight days after the leak the guy is fired...

The takeaway is; don't interfere with the PLA/Huawei.
Beautiful writeup. I'm a developer but never work on web stuff, and even I found the story interesting and readable.
In general, this is one of the news threads that I persistently don't understand. There is too much information missing. Why are European countries so keen on allowing Huawei to build some critical infrastructure? Do they face threats from China? If so, how are these made? And then there is the other side of the coin, that the US allegations look credible overall, but it is also known that the NSA and GCHQ built spying tools into existing European infrastructure. Is the US trying to do this again but this wouldn't work if Huawei was involved?

Which companies can actually build these kind of networks? Couldn't e.g. France and Germany build them on their own? Or would that be too expensive?

Questions over questions...
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This has nothing to do with the practice of medicine, or choices doctors make.

Anyway it's a threat, just like "we will send a collection agency", or "your credit score will be affected"
>All information should be free.

>protect private data.

How do you reconcile these? Data is information. Or is this another free vs Free (Kostenlos vs Frei) situation?
Wow time to uninstall photoshop.
I'm talking about grocery store ads selling baby back ribs for 2.99/lb not "got milk?" ads by the milk board.

Public transparent pricing that will drive consumers to pick and choose their health care providers would do great things for the ridiculous situation we are in.
I loved the part when the Docs team added their own because they were "presumably under the mistaken assumption that we had done our diligence and had received all of the necessary approvals....Amazingly, we had somehow bypassed detection as the originators of the IE6 banner inside of Google."
I see, the argument is that monorepo facilitates tight-coupling because it's easy to add dependencies. The multi-repo doesn't have the same problem because it's more difficult to have cross module dependencies.

There's a number of solutions to prevent tight-coupling.

1. Language-level visibility modifiers.
2. Build system visibility. Bazel offers fine-grained visibility. I'm not sure about others.
3. Using RPCs as the primary interconnect between services.

My view is that disadvantages of tight-coupling in a mono-repo is a much better problem to have than the disadvantages of having logic spread across different repos.
Nothing surprising, China exports so much stuff to USA. The so called trade deficit means they have more dollars that they need to spend. Interestingly China spends it on more risky SV ventures.

The cheapest thing USA produces today is the green paper called dollars. This is a win win.
This is an awesome article. Thanks to this team they probably helped push the web ahead by a few years ahead vs if web developers still had to support the cripple that is IE6.
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According to Leonard Peikoff, the laws of the Weimar Republic which touched on Human Rights all had an "out" for the government to suspend rights in case of a national emergency or "for the common good." Is this accurate and is this still the case today?
I've had to be careful even in a lead position to make sure the other team members have plenty of breathing room to work on things that are useful and that they enjoy. Being a project contributor and a source of authority work at cross purposes. It's not impossible but it's a drag on your faculties to maintain it.

As a details person that answer is easy for me: I touch the parts that I don't ever want to break in production, the parts that mid level people tend to shy away from anyway. But not everyone has my temperament and being overly optimistic can result in treading on toes....
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The closest clone I can think of is Lobsters[1,2]

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I remember using those banners are reasons to not support IE6 in our client projects at the time. It took a bit longer for it to actually fade away for us, but it's great to hear the story behind those banners.
> First, and importantly -- both previous LA Olympics generated real profits, as in, actual economic profits. Not unicorn fantasy profits like most tech companies embrace (ahem Groupon, Uber, Twitter, Tesla, etc.).

Sure, and what did they spend it on? Was it worth the displacement? Did they build more public housing? Of course not.

> Second--while you may not care about the Olympics or sports, literally billions of people around the world--and millions of people in Los Angeles--do care about the Games. The Games are both a celebration of sport, health, community, unity, and a vessel for raising money to fund youth athletics.

LA could also house the homeless—that would be something to actually celebrate. Right now, the Olympics are a celebration of capital.
It's also possible he didn't do it. He hasn't exactly impressed anyone - except himself - during his brief but very exciting tenure, and it's possible May was looking for an excuse to get rid of him while also pointing the finger at a convenient scapegoat.

We'll see if this proceeds to a criminal investigation. My guess is it won't.
but I would really love to see some sort of lite versions of Functional specifications & design specifications come back.

None of those things are disclaimed by Agile. Agile never meant "don't do any design, requirements gathering, or specification." If the people you're working with think that "being Agile" means you can't do those things, then quit and go work somewhere else.

Remember, "there is no such thing as Agile." That is, there is no specific process or methodology named "Agile" which is prescriptive and says "don't do design". Agile is an umbrella term that encompasses a wide spectrum of different methodologies, including Scrum, XP, AUP, Crystal, DAD, SAFe, etc. Those different methodologies may argue for more or less emphasis on up-front design, but I'm not aware of any of them that disclaim it completely. If your people are saying "Agile doesn't let us do design" then they're full of shit.
LiDAR means he'd have to retrofit vehicles, given how he promised every purchaser that their cars are self-driving ready.

LiDAR literally will cost him money, so yeah, that's a conflict.
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Private citizens are employees. Employees have agreed to exchange their labor to another party that intends to profit from it. Why should the labor face the liability when ultimately it is the company that interfaces with the public and profits from their efforts?
I think that's why it's appropriately named an 'anomaly'. It doesn't completely discount the theory, it only provides some evidence that the theory isn't perfect.

Or, in George Box's words, "All models are wrong; some models are useful"
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