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Zack Beauchamp? really? I have no schtick in this debate but damn!! Using Vox´s Zack Beauchamp´s journalistic compass as a judge on what "works" is like if a dude linked you to flatearth.com to prove that circles are actually squares...
Exactly. Everyone is free to choose his priorities. If you priorities are family, hobbies, or any myriad of things, that's amazing! But it will be probably be a bit harder to advance in the field than someone who lives and breathes code every day. That's just obvious...

I find myself right at the middle, I don't code much in my free time but I do like reading programming books and learning about new topics and paradigms while only doing basic exercises now and then. I catch up on new technologies even if I'm not using them at the moment.
>There's no reason our current (or a larger) population isn't sustainable

What methods are you using to know this is true?
> Thought experiment. If we assume that "alien intelligence is here" in some form like UFO sightings, why not also assume they are on the internet?

Bingo. AMA.
I'm curious about the proportion of people who started visiting HN because of ycombinator vs those who came just because someone told them it had good discussions.

I'm of the latter group.
My father continued to use it for the majority of his work until at least 2005, and the computer still boots and works just fine today. He had far more frequent problems with a succession of Windows laptops in the subsequent 15 years than from the 15 years of using the Mac SE.

Having a small monochrome screen is not an insurmountable problem in practice for people used to doing most of their work by spreading physical paper around on the floor. Yes it could be better if it took advantage of 30 years of CPU, etc. improvements, but it’s nonetheless a fantastic tool.

Your “working writers” probably also need their computers for web browsing or whatever. And probably waste a ton of time on computer-related or computer-aided bullshit.
I’m not saying it’s the right thing, but it at least helps.
Depends on what you want out of a career too. The big FAANG type companies don't tend to care at all about your GitHub, so "practice whiteboard problems" is better advice for someone looking for that of job.
I’m at a complete loss how in 2010’s they can design build and implement a cloud provider, from the ground up that has so many “global outages”

This isn’t “legacy” code that has migrated from cobol to vb to c#, this is modern code and to suffer this bs time and time again is unforgivable
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Why would Pluralsight, a training company, be interested in this. At $170 Million?

Not sure why they thought it was a purchase that helped them in their mission.
Yes, it was mostly this. The sharp credentialed engineers could design, model and simulate complex systems like nobody's business. But, of course, models are never quite exact representations of the real world, especially when it comes to hardware. So the engineers with pracitical knowledge would look at the hardware and (usually rather quickly) spot missing decoupling, debouncing, metastability, sneak paths, etc issues.
Complex valued functions of a real variable are common and important but well covered in real analysis. Functions of a complex variable I've never seen in practice.

A good course in statistics, e.g., with sufficient statistics, needs graduate probability, and with a grad probability course can do elementary statistics easily in the footnotes. E.g., the proof I worked out for the Neyman-Pearson lemma is quite general but based on the Hahn decomposition based on the Radon-Nikodym theorem (Rudin gives von Neumann's cute proof) in measure theory. The grown up approach to conditional probability is based just on the Radon-Nikodym theorem of measure theory.
Not sure why you are getting down-voted not having to pay your primary competitor for services obviously had influence on this decision.
It's because of screens that I looked for a slightly older model when I recently purchased a vehicle. Ended up getting a 2009 BMW 328. The design on the inside is wonderful, and screen-free.

The computer is simple to use and gives you all the functionality you would have on a screen.

I now want to keep this car going as long as possible, in the hopes that this awful trend will change, and there will be options like people are describing here.

It reminds me of phones. The newest phone was willing to buy was a 2nd gen iPhone SE. It's the only new phone in a small form that has decent internal hardware.

I see it as part of a bigger trend that goes against excellent design. Is this some sort of marketing vs design thing that causes this?
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Can you give some examples of those problems because you are coming off as very hand-wavy about it?
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but since people seem to be taking your comment as sincere: Google doesn't have people applying advanced algorithms to everything. It's a common complaint (or at least observation) among new hires that Google likes to hire top CS students and put them to work doing fairly basic engineering work.

Though the flipside is that they make lateral transfers very easy, so those that are the most motivated by more challenging or even just more CS-oriented work find themselves drifting towards it.
Hybrid Cloud Is the Future
And what percent do? Most of the US at this points uses Google, or even chrome directly to search google.
Azure is subsidized by Microsoft so they retain customers and mindshare, they also seem to have a mix of talent working for them. In some areas like reporting dashboards and such, Azure is head and shoulders better than AWS and GCP, but few if any of their large clients use these features (missing the primary value you'd get from using Azure).

Our interaction with the GCP sales team has repeatedly been aggressive US based sales agents, whereas Microsoft sent us to deal with (incompetent) sales agents out of India after promising us significant startup credits when we crossed paths with them at a conference near Seattle.
It's not just like those at all... did you think that I was saying that you can just compile things manually or something? You can define build options and such for a group of packages using Guix; there just isn't an abstraction like USE flags. You can find more info at https://ambrevar.xyz/guix-advance/index.html#orgc3c05c9.

And I don't consider its other features just "some nice addons". It's easy to build things from source; in fact, it automatically does it by default if a binary isn't available. It's contained in a directory, you can roll back to a previous state, it's reproducible, everything can be configured through one file, etc.

Guix is one of the package managers most different from apt and such; if there's anything it's similar to, it's Nix, which IIRC it's based on/inspired by.

Also, I'm curious as to what it is that you do that they shun? Is it working on proprietary software or something?
The value of the work you do at home is a small fraction of the value you produce at work. Employers risk a lot of money on engineering, but even more on marketing, sales, product management, support, vendors, operational processes, legal, infrastructure, and more. Each of those areas acts as a multiplier on the value produced by everyone in the organization.
it's the other way around. Facebook has always been a private concern. At some point it became an effective monopoly. That doesn't stop it from continuing to be a private concern. The process of going from private concern to public concern is called "nationalisation"; the government forcibly buys out the shareholders of Facebook and runs it as a public asset.

The shareholders of Facebook are entitled to run their company as they see fit. Because they own it. Like you can paint the walls of your house whatever colour you like, and if visitors don't like it, then that's their problem.

If we think that Facebook has grown too powerful and intrusive into society to be governed by its shareholders, then nationalisation is completely the correct way to go.

Of course, which nation gets to buy Facebook is another concern... given its global reach, is it really appropriate for the US government to own it? Should the UN "globalise" it instead of the US "nationalising" it?
I mean, I assume it is shared across many Chevy product lines, but I haven't done an exhaustive study. If it only existed on the later Volts and then disappears forever with their discontinuation, that makes the loss even sadder.
If I am understanding this correctly this would be ok under the GDPR because the government is the one holding the data bag.

They got the images from CBP.
I feel the exact same way about manicures/pedicures/eyebrow waxing.
Weren't they having performance problems with Azure storage long before the GitHub acquisition announcement?
That makes intuitive sense, and when I reasoned about your comment earlier that's the general direction my thinking went.

I live pretty much exactly one mile from my work, and the two nearest shopping centres are less than half a mile beyond that.

I'd definitely be interested in seeing some heat maps of representing this data. It's easy to believe that the majority of people live close to at least one of the places they most often travel to, whether that is a workplace or other activity, and I think you're right that this is an important metric within which to consider such statistics.
I don't think any company cares that much about your github. It almost always comes down to the interview.

But programming in your free time will (likely) make you more effective in your job, garner recognition/ place you in a programming community, teach you about new problem spaces, etc.

So while that may not help you move from job to job (I'd argue, however, that it does), it'll help you accelerate your career within a company.

I don't think it's contentious to say that practice will improve your skill, and improving your skill generally leads to a better (by some definition) career.
GV-funded company gets a great deal on GCP. Film at 11.
>Maybe, but they give a pretty good idea of what the founders thought about the constitutional scope of the federal government's power over the borders

Some of the founders also thought the Constitution should be rewritten every 20 years and that binding future generations to the rules sent down in the past was immoral.

They're not infallable gods and their opinion here should be taken as only that, an opinion
> He needs 45 bushels from each acre to make a profit. To avoid being docked – getting priced down for moisture or debris in the bushels – he will ask his wife, Kara Brewer Boyd, to enlist her white stepfather to sell the beans for him. When the other man takes Boyd’s beans, he’s not docked but complimented.

Sad that people still have to deal with this. He literally can't sell his own product without being discriminated against. And this is the type of thing that isn't usually listed under "racism" but is a extra cost he has to pay his whole life.
Ideal car UX: click wheel with a few dedicated function buttons on the steering wheel and a transparent display on the rear view mirror. You can send the royalty checks to my secretary.
My favorite “how did this go unnoticed” bug in that era was in Windows 95 (so … target rich) when working on an IDE where the File Open dialog showed the C: drive as empty, but only on one PC at a single customer site and one test box in our QA lab – every other available system worked, as did all of the Windows NT systems. Someone wrote a test program and confirmed that it was immediately exiting with the normal no-more-entries status, exactly as in the documentation except for the lack of entries.

I had a lucky guess remembering that the test box wasn’t on the LAN and discovered that the problem depended on whether you’d enabled network sharing. You didn’t need to have shared anything or be using a share – simply having it enabled meant that a file system filter was installed and the local hard drive magically started returning results.

It turns out that there were multiple APIs which did this and apparently the original developer had unluckily picked the less common one. Switching was easy and had no apparent drawbacks. The best theory we had was that Microsoft’s QA group disliked copying builds around on floppies as much as we did and didn’t have many completely offline systems around.
I don't think that's needed. One of the manufacturers needs to get with the times and make an open platform and an app store and developers will come.

Once one of the cars starts getting useful excellent third party software that can say, do parallel parking or smart cruise control or some other killer feature (maybe a car "doctor" that guesses what's wrong with a vehicle at actionable levels), the other manufacturers will eat shit for a while with their own in-house clones and fail then finally give in and adopt the open standard.

They're better staying out of the software game entirely.

But someone has to take the first step.
> Chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew dies aged 74
They say they're not storing the new photos. Just matching them and discarding.
> The big FAANG type companies don't tend to care at all about your GitHub

My feedback from Google was to put more code up on my GitHub (and I already had hundreds of thousands of lines in a major open source project on there.)
Thank you for admitting that.

In light of this new context, has your thinking around this subject changed?
I agree. My comment was relative to the situation in which we live in.
Why would you mention Japan when the word hikikomori exists?
If they're investing in kubernetes it makes complete sense to switch to GKE over AKS. We used AKS and it gave us tons of trouble while GKE seemed a lot more polished.
I’d guess most of the interfaces we see in 2019 are roughly 2009 designs and implementations. I think it’s changing, but many of the manufacturers started out by putting software in the same test/certify cycle as the hardware.
Henry Ford also admired Nazis and the feeling was quite mutual. For an in-depth analysis you can read "Rethinking the Ford-Nazi Connection" (https://www.ghi-dc.org/fileadmin/user_upload/GHI_Washington/...) or this article (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/the-dark-le...) for a popular account.
I am not getting any deeper into a semantics argument.

> you forgot to clarify what the point you were making when replying to rconti - because that is the topic we are supposed to be on

"At that point I was just calling out an exaggeration, which is not the same thing as denial. It might be possible in a very niche case, but "if you ever" portrays it as a typical result."

I think that's about all I have to say so uh good luck in life!
It is not a big deal when your car can drive itself well enough while you are messing with it for a few seconds.
What does telemetry have to do with the windows 10 start menu becoming a container for ads and not trivially removable partnered apps?

There's nothing wrong with transparent, privacy-respecting, and configurable telemetry, but what windows 10 does is none of those. Trying to describe it as something that's good for the users comes off a bit disingenuous.
If your goal is to move into leadership at the executive level it probably doesn't matter. What matters more is developing your leadership skills, rapid advancement from IC to management and networking.
Since we're working on Lisp internals, we can accept a few parentheses.

The code has two asterisks, both in parameter declarations, indicating pointers.

It has exactly one binary operator in the body, the assignment = denoting the one local side effect (stepping the iteration variable of the simple for (;;) loop).

All else is simple function calls. Except for the function pointer declaration, and perhaps not knowing car and cdr, an Awk or JS programmer might grok this.

The program doesn't abort; the exception was caught in the REPL. We were thrown right out of the GNU Debugger where we caused the problem, and back into the Lisp REPL. We can demonstrate that in other ways, like this:

(gdb) r
Starting program: /home/kaz/txr/txr-dbg
This is the TXR Lisp interactive listener of TXR 215.
Quit with :quit or Ctrl-D on empty line. Ctrl-X ? for cheatsheet.
1> (catch (raise sig-trap) (error (x) (put-line `caught error: @x`)))

Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.
0x00132416 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) p car(9)
caught error: car: 2 is not a cons
t
2> (+ 2 2)
4
3> _

gdb gets confused here, though:

3> (exit 0)
[Inferior 1 (process 8529) exited normally]
The program being debugged exited while in a function called from GDB.
Evaluation of the expression containing the function
(car) will be abandoned.

Quite understandably, it doesn't understand the exception handling and didn't notice that we jumped out; it still thinks we are executing the car function. Oh well!
Here's one from England.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bournville
Nuclear and gas fit into different niches. Nuclear makes sense up to the point where installed nuclear capacity is sufficiently lower than the lowest demand on the grid, eg. 4 AM demand. Gas fills in for renewables when available solar/wind is less than demand at high-usage times, eg. 10 PM demand. If energy storage is expensive, it makes sense to have both.
Most countries of the world have maximum visit lengths as part of a visitor visa.

And those maximum visit lengths are counted on an annual basis. So you can only visit the US 179 days out of 365.

So they need to know when you came in and when you left. It's not good enough to just leave and not tell anyone.
Most of us seem to embrace our "weird-sounding English" sooner or later. The truth is that Americans don't care much about our accents, it's our own insecurities speaking. Occasionally you might meet someone who does, but then you wouldn't want to work for them anyways since they'll find a reason to be a bigoted piece of shit to you whether you have an accent or not.
I don’t disagree with your overarching point, but it can’t be quite that simple, if it works as advertised. In order for it to send a name with the photo, the passenger would have to scan some sort of documentation to provide their name, which would defeat the purpose of “your face is your boarding pass”.

It seems more likely that the CBP system compares against passenger manifests of upcoming flights. Which isn’t necessarily more intrusive, but it is a bit less straightforward than a simple yes/no query.
Zig's type system tries to be aware of what its pointing to. Is it an array of comptime known length? An array of unknown length? An array of runtime known length? or a single item? Is it mutable? What's its alignment requirement? etc. It even has a pointer type for "something that came from C, who the hell knows". There is an accepted proposal to have pointer types for null-terminated blocks of memory too.

So when you create a pointer out of thin air, you have to inform the type system precisely what kind of pointer it is. That's why it is so much more gnarly than C, it wants you to be explicit.
I've always assumed that people telling other people this are either delusional or are actively undermining their competition.
It's perfectly okay to do whatever you want to do outside of work. I took slack off my phone more than a year ago and it has been absolute bliss.

I have a hard stop and never work on work related things. If I want to code, it's for me and for fun.
I don’t know how far back you’re going in time with this comment but I’ve used 7zip portable for years: https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/7-zip_portable
I notice that it's mostly non-coders who are always "you guys should work harder and be more passionate about your work!"

If I have a coding job, I struggle to code outside it, and prefer doing other creative projects. If I have a management job, I really enjoy side projects and hobby coding outside it. It's like I only have 40 hours of coding creativity per week in me, and if I'm not getting to do that at work, then I enjoy doing that for fun.
Good life advice, possibly bad career advice? The top flight engineers that I know are always working. Not always on work related things, but always working. Hard to tell if it's a 10,000 hours type of thing or just passionate people don't feel like it's work. All the same I guess.
What Would Leonardo Da Vinci Think of the Future?
Well, same here on the kids. I wrote /bin/ps for Linux and maintained the procps package for about a decade. I also did significant work on Tux Paint and a little Linux kernel work. I managed just fine with 3 tiny kids and a job, and later with 5 small kids and no job. Adding back a job, I hit my limit. This is one way that Open Source projects die.

Since then, the situation has only gotten more extreme. My family size goes to 11, and yes that is one louder than 10. Soon I'll have a dozen, all homeschooled.

I got one kid interested in following in my footsteps, so sometimes I get to have fun teaching him. Mostly, there just isn't time for anything extra. One factor that helps is that I'm in a different part of the industry. You're in "Front-End", which might mean you need to learn a new javascript framework every year. I mostly write in C, for which the last update was 8 years ago and the last significant update was 20 years ago. When I'm not doing C, I'm doing a wide variety of different kinds of assembly language. That changes, but one is expected to constantly refer to the manual. So really I've gone a quarter century with no significant change. I am pondering the value of learning rust, but I certainly don't have to scramble each year to learn the hot new thing.
This is a fairly recent addition to medium I think, but I also hate it a lot.
This kind of behavior can make sense on news sites that load another article when you get to the bottom of the page, but adding history entries for each header you haven't interacted with is beyond words.
>These people did a lot of damage. A lot. All in the name of free speech.

It's pretty tiring hearing people complaining about banning the right of movement. I mean, why do you even need a right about being equal in front of the law? Bigger people contribute more and being free costs money anyways, why does it matter if someone owns you? Just be happy you were allowed to think this long for yourself! And stop being so entitled and accept the punishment, nobody owes you to be alive. It's your fault you dropped that tea and just fitting they'll drop your head as punishment.
I don’t think so. I am being completely reasonable and rational here. Let me ask this, what is special about JetBlue? If JetBlue doesn’t host the service on their data centers would they be willing to offer such a service? If a government agency can reasonably be expected to not play favorites and offer the service to anyone within reason, do you think they will be able to scale it up and offer the kind of SLAa expected by money making businesses? Why would an agency want to get in to that endeavor?

Please, offer me alternative view points rather than calling my theory FUD.