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Path to being a 10x programmer |Unicorn’s are real – you can be one too
Most of the time yes.
This is a really good point! Remote work has massive socio-political implications. Really enjoyed discussing this aspect of remote work in this podcast interview with Liam Martin, founder of Running Remote: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s2-e10-liam-martin/id1...
In San Francisco state supported affordable houses are around 500k. This is a mansion in most states. Anyone who thinks that the people on the street are helped by this program are confused
>In the US, progress toward the industries of the future is happening despite government policies, not because of them.

So?

In any democracy government is going to lag the population/private sector when it comes to basically everything because you need more agreement before doing anything than you do in a private cooperation or authoritarian government system so the government winds up deadlocked or going back and fourth on an issue until a strong consensus emerges.
This is not the crisis it's being portrayed as. Up until a year or two ago. .io was run directly by the ICB. It had issues as it's not straight forward managing root level dns and the other related tasks of a registry.

Since then a company called Afilias is running .io (they also run .org, .info among many others). Whoever maintains governance of the .io tld is separate from the actual infrastructure running .io. As long as the owners of .io want to keep cashing the checks then nothing will change as the whole operation is outsourced. This is similar to the island of tuvalu outsourcing all of .tv to verisign (they are the .com registry)

Source: I work in the domain industry
that looks interesting; it would make the project clearer to others to add some title, date, institution or other mark to find project backing, at the top of the doc, and the same with details in the endnotes.
You could reduce your electricity use. Just drop consumption by 10% and you already more than offset any flying you do. Or try to get solars and enjoy.
That is very much the case here - I often have no idea whether someone I am communicating with is in the office or somewhere else - although always amusing to realise that an online meeting actually has all the attendees sitting a few metres apart....
StartRocket wants to use cubesat satellites to display advertisements in the sky
My problem with economic solutions like carbon tax is that as it alleviates the carbon footprint, it reinforces economic inequality. Mobility will become something reserved to the rich people again.

I hope we will find a better one, e.g. online conferences or putting a tax specifically on business travel on behalf of medium to large sized companies.
I don't think question A: How do you identify programmers who finish things? and question B: How do you identify programmers addicted to novelty/who have a hard time internalizing business goals? are equivalent or even similar.

Many developers are "addicted to novelty" because that is how the industry works. You don't get very far in the game by only knowing VB.NET and C++. To get a high salary you need to change jobs many times. To change jobs many times you need to have knowledge about the latest and greatest (AJAX, jQuery, MongoDB, TypeScript, Android, iOS, Rust, Go, Scrum, TDD, whatever...).
True but none of the people on my street have this story. They need help not houses
I don't understand why spreadsheets are so fervourously bashed: most times they do the job and in a fast and inclusive way.

The spreadsheet is certainly one of the best tools ever invented.

[0] Joel's Spolsky must-watch talk on Excel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c
Also, frozen oblivion is better than being brought back by those who will not honor your motivations for being frozen. If it's possible to be brought back, organ-harvesting, post-cryo-slavery, medical-experiment-subject are the likely outcomes.
I think there is a sort of subconscious push for this that not everyone attributes. In tech work if you are at an office you tend to get "dump trucked" work even if it is not your domain or responsibility. "I gave it to you its yours now figure it out"

The reality is bad management is the rule rather than the exception in most of the world. If you are home you are "out of sight out of mind" for MBWA(management by walking around)managers. At the very least it requires a manager to stop think before just running over and screaming we need this done today type stuff.
I think Powershell made a big mistake going with verb first. I know I want to do something with group but when I type group there is no auto complete. Now I type “add” and I get dozens or hundreds of suggestions which makes auto complete almost useless. They should have gone with target object first so when I type in group I get all the relevant auto complete suggestions.
Interesting. Link?
This may happen for workstations, but I think Linux will continue to be popular on servers. In that context, the cost/benefit of running it on top of Windows won't make any sense. But Windows could very well become the de-facto workstation, even for people who only deploy to Linux servers.
This, together with this comment [..] especially in the German speaking part of Europe, are still run like factories, barely have flexible working hours and don't even want to hear about remote work as managers prefer having a close eye on employees at all time. from a previous HN discussion [1], has made me wonder if there is any Chinese market for remote SW developers from the other parts of the world.

It seems like the Chinese run at the speed of light these days while I'm still left to do Jira's and time sheets and bug hunting and colleagues that are really not that interested in anything software related at the same old 9-5 job.

Is China a viable alternative? Do you have any experience working with Chinese companies, startups, sw shops, etc?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20082232
> I've never been to a church that required people to believe anything in order to engage in any particular way.

Communion at the Catholic Church. Or entering the Mormon church at all.
https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Runa-Edreds-Shorter-1988-1994/dp...
Rubbish. I've travelled Berlin to Brussels (and then London) by train. It was very pleasant.
Sounds like your only social life is from work.
Working remote is great but still requires a quality company for it to be enjoyable.

Meetings should be treated like everyone is remote. If people attend from their desk, these tend to work out better & you avoid unintentional things that make it difficult for remote employees to attend.

Having the majority of conversations done via e-mail or a chat tool & properly documented in something like OneNote or Evernote or a project management tool goes a long way in keeping everyone on the same page as well. This is good for non-remote teams as well.

Allowing flexibility in time & location goes a long way in making happy employees in my experience. It shows you trust them to get the work done. Sure, some people will abuse it but those aren't people you want on your team anyways.

As stated by others, being a remote worker doesn't mean you need to be a hermit either. There are tons of ways to still go out & socialize with people. Even on remote teams, I still find a good chunk of my day is socializing via video chat meetings where someone is bound to go off topic. People also login early & chat about life.
Actors' brains have different activity patterns when they're in character
considering that the .su domain still works fine, I kinda doubt .io will ever go away even if the sea swallows the islands
Personally, while I wouldn't say that mixed teams "don't work", they are much harder. Specifically for management.

The managers need to enforce that all meetings have to include remote workers. And I mean ALL meetings should include them, or at least give them the option of joining in. Managers need to avoid falling in the trap of "I didn't talk to them today so they didn't do anything", even subconsciously. Managers need to make sure that no decisions are made informally in an office without giving a chance to remote workers on the teams from having input or knowing they happened. Managers need to make sure that in-office people know how to use and work with the remote work tools, and remote workers need to be held to the same standards (no one-on-one calls and decisions without including all the in-office people, not just the one they are talking to at the moment).

It's not impossible by any means, I even work in a situation like that myself right now where about half the team is remote, and half is in the office. But having worked in fully remote teams and fully in-office teams before, I will say that it's much easier when it's not mixed.

One really kind of "unique" setup I have at a current job is an always-on zoom "meeting room" where team members will stay in all day sometimes (often any time we aren't working on something individually or deep in a problem). It really bridges the remote/office gap really well, because just like in an office any of us can just unmute and ask a quick question about something, kind of like leaning back to ask someone a question at another desk in an office.
It's actually quite possible that all they have is a (rather shitty) whitelist...
Why not just do it?
ESPN is not secure. Intentional or oversight?
Not the OP, speaking for myself.

I guess the thing that concerns me (not speaking for anyone else) has largely been the (admittedly late) realization that Github can be bought.

I had, for some indiscernible reason, thought of Github as this near-benevolent entity that existed exclusively to facilitate open-source and distribute Octocat stickers. When they were purchased by one of the largest megacorporations on the planet, it pulled-back the curtain, and showed that, no, they are a for-profit business, not a charity.

I shouldn't have thought that way, but I did, and as a result the MS-buying-Github thing has not sat well with me.
I would love to work remotely- I am already productive when working from home on a big monitor in a quiet room- but I always worry that eventually I'd become decoupled from my coworkers and isolated.

Also there are many things at my startup where we really all need to be in the same place to make a decision- I don't think slack or other chat apps can really replace the high bandwidth in person discussions for important decision making.
Got it working on Mac with this, thanks!

What's amazing to me is that the source code is actually formatted to say "Fluid color" which is why piping the source into the generated binary (as in the 2nd command above) generates that image. Incredible.
So you have a moral question: Is it more important that you save a few euros, or that future generations and people in poor countries (who, let's be honest, will bear the brunt of climate change) will suffer?
The same can be said of (pseudo-)scientific thinking of materialists in the eugenic movements. The Nazis (Godwin's Law!) didn't go after Jews for religious reasons, but for genetic reasons.

The (nominally) Christian Germans were also planning to exterminate Poles because they were of inferior Slavic lineage (not caring that they were Christian/Catholic):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalplan_Ost
It’s included! And, in fact, we just launched the API publicly.

https://stripe.com/docs/disputes#early-fraud-warnings
https://stripe.com/docs/api/radar/early_fraud_warnings

As for the percentage of false negatives, it really depends on your business. We definitely recommend looking at your own early fraud warning and disputes history to determine what makes the most sense for you.
Idk, but I find it especially funny because the ones Amazon basics is competing in are the silliest businesses to try and protect. Almost all of them just buy the same product from china and have the manufacturer slap their label on it. There are dozens of these "brands" whose only function is to handle the batch ordering, shipping it to amazon who then actually handles the logistics, and customer support which usually just involves trying to bribe anyone who gives a bad review into changing their rating.

It's not even like Amazon bans the other brands from selling on their store. They are free to keep competing with amazon for the same exact product. It sounds like they just don't want more competition for their low value add business.
They discontinued flights because of the environmental impact it was having on the island.

The big resort on the island (Berjaya) wanted to build a bigger airport a few years ago and the locals flat out said no.

Tioman is entirely owned by the local population and they have the first and last say on what gets developed there.

So far they are doing a great job, Tioman has the only growing reef in Malaysia and is seeing a lot of rare wildlife returning year after year.

The bus from Singapore takes a few hours, and the ferry about the same. We get more than enough tourist who are willing to make the trip.
Microsoft is winning me back:

I switched to Visual Studio Core on daily basis for Go and Ruby.

I switched to Typescript for everything JS including React Native.

I was already using Github and was ok with it, now under Microsoft it feels like it's moving faster and actually going somewhere.

I'm in the market for a Windows-based PC since I can get Linux with it courtesy of WSL2. Probably keep using my current crappy MBP until the ARM ones come out.

With every release of .NET Core I feel tempted to use it instead of Go.

How does all this translates to me wanting to try Azure Cloud the next time I need to deploy something? I feel stupid because I don't know, you may need to ask Microsoft.
I want to be at a coworking space, but WeWork is pricey for my situation. A hot desk (not reserved) at my local WeWork is over $4k a year. If that cost were subsidized by my company I might use it, but it's a significant salary hit otherwise. Additionally, it's still a very loud workspace to work in. Even with daily food/drink costs, I spend well under that at the coffee shop.
From a post on Quora about why escalators are harder to walk up: "A stopped escalator IS indeed harder to climb than a fixed staircase of the same height. A typical conventional fixed staircase has tread risers (steps) that are ~7 inches high and 11 inches deep. The escalator is likely to have tread risers that are ~8 inches high and 16 inches deep."

People are more likely to fall climbing a stopped escalator than stairs due to the different stair height and depth.
I'm one of the chief repeaters who has Harper on the stability issue and the control stick force curve; I usually Eve up dropping a post or two about it in each MAX thread.

You are right on target, but I do wish to point out the aerodynamics are still a problem, and a problem that has caused a great deal of grief in aviation history.

Take a trip down memory lane, and give the D.P. Davies Interview from the Royal Aeronautics Society a listen. Specifically, the one revolving around the 727 certification.

There seems to be two schools of thought to aircraft design. One is the test pilot's wet dream: simple layout, well behaved, neutral stability, or minimal bad behavior up to the corners of the flight envelope, then easily discernable, and recoverable stall behavior.

The other school is the realm of the Engineer. The Tricky Sick school if you will. Apply enough computer and piloting aid to the properly shaped brick, and it can be flown like a 737! Or Airbuses version of "let the plane fly itself, just tell it where to go."

Even as far back as the certification of the 727, test pilot's saw the shift away from the meutrally stable machine that "just flew" to an ever increasing complex mishmash of complex systems working in the background to male unstable airframes fly like naturally (neutrally) stable ones. Which is all fine and good until something goes wrong, and those systems fail, leaving a pilot in uncharted waters.

The control stick force stuff is not a distraction, just another link in the chain of normalization of deviance that resulted in a departure from "building an airworthy frame" to figuring out how to mask the "unairworthyness" of a frame sufficiently so as to get it by the regulators.

That's not to say it can't be done, but one approach is definitely inherently riskier than the other, and requires increased levels of communication among everybody involved.

Point being: this has been built up to since as far back as the 60's. See the 727 certification in above mentioned interview, the many difficulties that the MD-11 ran into with it's LSAS, and note the similar less than stellar results that emerged from trying to optimize for fuel efficiency at the cost of having to implement increasingly complex control system hacks to maintain parity with regulations/previous airframes.

Interview:

https://www.aerosociety.com/news/audio-the-d-p-davies-interv...
The fallout from this will be, I suspect, that standards bodies will no longer be centered in the US. The historical leadership the US has in setting the trend for technology will suffer great damage. All for political ego.
This is hacking and is unethical at best and at worst, extremely illegal. Congratulations, you found out a way to systematically steal other people’s reward points and are helping others do the same. Should this really be on HN?
I've been working on some tips on burnout for early engs. Would value any feedback:

https://www.nemil.com/on-software-engineering/beware-burnout...
Used to run an online game, where lots of fraud was going on. People would buy ingame coins or whatever, move them elsewhere and then chargeback. Full protection at just 0.4% would have been a dream for me if I still operated that game.
Which “things that make it unintentionally difficult to attend” meetings for remote people are you referring to?
Steinbeck is amazing. He would recite his books as he wrote them - he believed that words were meant to be spoken. He wrote for the spoken word rather than the written word. I also saw a few pages of his revisions on one of his books - he revised his "standard" sentences into "colorful" sentences. So his writing was definitely a result of hard work and creativity - and in my mind moves his writings into the realm of true art.
The idea of a clean separation between a "command economy" and whatever we have is a myth. The US obviously had a national strategy to encourage the growth of its auto industry, like building a national highway system. Similarly for semiconductor manufacturing, aerospace, oil and gas, etc. If you are spending $1.5 trillion a year in a $16 trillion economy you have a lot to say about its structure.
Mental illness: is there a global epidemic?
You raise a really crucial point about personality type. We were recently discussing the Myers-Briggs system at Quuu, and it turns out most of us are introverts.

I would also struggle with an office environment, so I feel for you! I hope you manage to find a solution to it. I think a lot of offices would do well to adopt some of the principles behind remote work. If employees are sacrificing something to come into an office each day, they should have more say in what that workspace is like when they're there. For example, being able to work in a quieter part of the building if noisy environments are draining for you.
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/crs-tool.asp
This could only possibly be true if we understood way more already.
Your example (and all the SEML documentation it seems) is missing marked-up text. For example, how would you represent:

<p>This is a <b>really cool</b> sentence.</p>

Your solution will probably have to splice the text segments around the embedded markup, something like:

(p nil (text "This is a " (b nil "really cool") " sentence."))

In particular, notice the careful whitespace at the edges of the strings.

IMO this Sexpr is now more obtuse than the XML, and the more markup you have within text-spans (e.g. nested markup), the worse it gets. This is also a major difference between XML (markup language) vs JSON (data-structure notation).

Maybe you don't need the (text ...) thing, but either way you're changing the grammar. How do SEML and SXML handle this?
This times a hundred thousand percent. I’m battling this hard right now at my workplace, some of my developers live a good 45 min drive from work and that’s just insane to ask them to be in their car for 7.5 hours/week.

So what did I do? I went “against” the company policy and had each of my team members work at least 1 day a week from home, now they’re up to 2-3 days depending on the week (humorous part is during the summer they’re in the office more cause it’s more quiet than home cause their kids are out for the summer lol)

So we’re still a “work from office” company but I run our team how I want and surprise - zero attrition in 3 years on my team, we meet most of our commitments, developer happiness/engagement is up on my team, our time to first response for production issues is great and all because of a mutual understanding that regardless of the “rules” I’ll take care of my guys/gals.
they're not advocating that you do it (and I think stealing from Chick-fil-A is probably ethical to a lot of people)

edit: for people not aware, the last part was in reference to pride month and Chick-fil-A's "relationship" with the LGBT community. I'm not advocating one way or another, just replying to the above comment.
I guess the issue is more for intercountry rail travel.
I know you know this, but their motto was "embrace, extend, extinguish".

How do we know they have given that up? Many still aren't convinced that non-free software is absolutely a good idea (though it hasn't bitten us yet that much).

Just because they are in the "embrace, extend" phase, doesn't mean they isn't an extinguish coming.

Understand though that "extinguish" may have changed over the years. Only time will tell.

Honestly, I have yet to see something come out of MS' open source work that I actually care about! I'm happy in my non-windows world. What have they even done that applies? TypeScript and VS Code? These are essentially irrelevant to me. So what reason do I have to extend my trust to them?
This was ages ago, but during on-boarding for my internship for Daimler-Benz, my boss was keen to tout the flexible work schedule. IIRC, it was "you are expected to work 37.5 hours per week; you have flexibility on exactly when; we have core hours where everyone is expected to be in; those are 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM."

IOW, "we're totally flexible on when you work that other 30 minutes per day..."
I think you are a little bit confused.

This is about Morse theory (topology), by Marston Morse.
The Morse code you are talking about is something else, by Samuel Morse.
Tried to subscribe, but you block email addresses from Blur. It may be a "disposable email", but I only dispose of these addresses if the site I give them to abuses them.

I'll subscribe when you respect my ability to detect who's sharing my email address with spammers.
GANs for Mitigating Bias in ML Systems
Yes it's insane. I save about $30k+ on housing costs working remote and am still in California.
Whether it makes sense or not, "Norse" symbology and mythos seem attractive to neo-Nazis, I guess at least partly because of obvious 20th century reasons.

Someone else posted this link which claims it is indeed a real problem: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/as...
> In general, I wish the passive voice was banned from headlines.

I know most people can't detect the passive voice properly, but I'm mystified as to what in this headline even makes you think it's passive. Usually, misidentification of the passive comes from people identifying some variant of the verb "to be."

Here's a lengthy guide on what the passive voice actually is: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2922