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> Fast forward a few years and I’d moved to New York, cycled through Creative Lab and landed at YouTube. As I neared the ten-year mark, my first boss, Sally Cole, who’d left Google many years before, joked that I was surely due for an existential crisis. But when I got back to work after having my son Malcolm in 2017, it wasn’t me who was having an existential crisis. It was Google itself.
Whats the actual issue ? They might increase my premium if i I buy too much pizza ? then it may be possible they might decrease my premium if I don't buy pizza that much.
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Ha, interesting timing! This has been my personal research topic this week, and I've been digging through the literature trying to get a sense of how thorough these experimental results are, and the theoretical underpinnings of neuronal criticality.

Here's a very nice (slightly dated, 2012) review of the subject [1]. With it's conversational tone, it's quite a breezy read, even for non-experts. For those who are jaded of power laws and criticality being bandied about willy-nilly, this article nicely digs a little deeper.

1: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2012.0016...
Don't forget the unknown unknowns. There's always cost-benefit analysis (no matter how flawed) done by people who decide to enlist. But you can't account for leaders blatantly lying to you about what is and isn't safe: agent orange, proximity to constantly running burn pits, Lejeune's water toxicity, "shaking off" PTSD symptoms, etc.
What's the practical difference between a TV show like "COPS" (or any of its various descendants), which features police recordings of its interactions in public with possibly-innocent suspects, and what's happening here? Is it merely the association with a commercial product?
> death by cold is [...] the default problem in space

well, actually... you need lower-energy atoms for higher-energy ones to rub against to carry away the excess. there's not many atoms in vacuum, so the default problem in space is overheating. see eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_Active_Thermal_Contro... or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_cooling_and_ventilation...

> you have to first survive the freezing trip to Venus. So you need heating and air conditioning. A lot. Of both.

the heating part is very, very wrong. the AC would be Atmospheric Control, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station#Sy....
Innocent until proven guilty.*

*or until public ads by Amazon sway the jury with video editing and accusations.
Picasso could paint a whole house, in one day - two days tops if you wanted multiple colors.
Excellent article! Thank you, Monica. You just put into words a whole bunch of stuff that I always "sensed" but never "said".

After spending 7 million years (it sure seems like it) cleaning up the most vile garbage code you could possibly imagine, I'd like to elaborate on this:

Architecture is more important than nitpicking. While a small line of code could be improved, the stuff that tends to cause bigger problems down the line are usually architectural. I should’ve focused more on the structure of the application than tiny bits of code early on.

Architecture = the sum of all those seemingly unimportant "tiny bits of code".

It seems like every time I have to refactor or (heaven forbid) rewrite, I have to start deep down in those tiny bits. I've worked places with all these "genius" architects, but when I dive deep down into the code, I find a sewer than couldn't possibly support software life as we know it, no matter how brilliantly it was conceived.

Fellow programmers, you probably know exactly what I'm talking about, all those cancerous tiny bits that kill even the strongest patients:

- variables so horribly named that no one could ever interpret them
- 800 line iterations surely destined to be broken by a maintenance programmer
- conditionals so illogical that no one can tell if they ever worked
- early exits to hell that can only be fixed by rewriting
- double negative logic that could not never fail to break
- 8 lines of code where 1 could do
- <add your own>

Great architecture comes from both directions, "above" and "below". From my experience (unlearned as a junior developer :-) ), 90% of the problems have always seemed to come from below.

Get good at the trees and the forest will flourish.
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Fortunately Amazon/Ring would get a rocket up their arse if they tried this in the UK (and presumably the rest of Europe covered by GDPR):

https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/cctv/
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I agree with your sentiments. Though the system had major flaws that allowed the disaster to occur, the unchainable heroism of the men and women on the ground is absolutely astonishing. If anything, this event showcases that the people of the former USSR exemplify qualities that all humans hold dear: self-sacrifice, courage, intelligence, alactrity. Despite the Soviet system of that era, these people fought for all citizens of the Earth, and especially for the lives of their 'enemies'. If there are silver linings in the diaster (and there a quite a few), one of them is that even the most average person of a repressive regime has incredible heroism baked into their bones. Those people are the same heroes of myths and all humans are now comming to recognize their sacrifice for us all.

EDIT: The medal awarded for participation in the clean-up can be seen in the below link. The page has more information on it that details the many pecularities of this medal and it's true uniqueness in world history (hopefully forever). Wikipedia has a good overview of the liquidators and their efforts and their subsequent lives. I've also included the wiki article on the Fukushima 50.

Aside: Though nuclear power is, to me, a God-send for human energy woes, I cannot look away from the horrible cost that these heroes paid for our energy future. Nuclear power plants must be considered after a careful reading of the liquidator's sacfifices to determine the depths of risk to our neighbors and ourselves. Though deaths per thousand may be less overall, we should soberly study those deaths and decide if we want to risk that sort of trade-off.

http://collectinghistory.net/chernobyl/index.html

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_50
The way inter-ISP routing works is that every ISP advertises its IP ranges† (prefixes) to each ISP it's connected to, who in turn stamp them with their own addresses and relay them to all their connections; in this way, advertisements are eventually propagated to every ISP on the Internet.

A prefix can be connected to several ISPs, and thus be advertised multiple times from multiple places. Each ISP resolves all the advertisements and computes paths to each prefix, sending traffic towards the shortest path received.

The protocol that conducts this process, BGP4, is unauthenticated and managed by a combination of fiddly filtering configurations (often based on regular expressions) and trust. An ISP can advertise any prefix and stand a chance of getting some other ISPs to route that prefix towards them.

Here, what appears to have happened was that a Dutch ISP advertised a bunch of prefixes incorrectly (they may have been advertised in such a way as to make them unattractive options for routing, as a safeguard, but that proved ineffective). China Telecom picked them up and propagated them, and, in doing so, made itself an attractive path for the prefixes for many other ISPs.

Yes, this would allow China Telecom to inspect traffic mistakenly routed to them, though it's extraordinarily unlikely that anything like that occurred.

† ISPs themselves have their own short numeric addresses, called ASNs.
Did I type what you're responding to, or is it your imagination?
The Vox article agrees with me? Better to have dissension and discourse rather than a bunch of editors from the same camp, whatever camp that may be.
Like most existing Blockchain projects, maybe no benefit over database to the users...but I don’t think it’s fair to say without knowing the actual use case/function/purpose of the token, so probably have to wait for the release of the whitepaper to form an opinion.
Other greedy companies are planning to loft thousands of satellites to compete with the aerial fibers and, better, co-ax cable.

More power to them, astronomy notwithstanding.
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I see multiple problems with that way of thinking, first HW will fail and AWS, Google ect ... showed us that you should not invest in very sophisticated things for those kind of problems.

It feels that you're building something to avoid HW issue but they will happen no mater what so it's better to invest in HA with a mix of standard servers + SW.

And solaris zones... all the modern tooling are built around Linux / Docker / Kubernetes ect ... so why should I use something that no one uses and lagged behind in term of tooling? Solaris zones are doing 1% of what a modern cloud is capable ( like Kubernetes )

Linux is the present and the future if you think with a small company you can change that you are very wrong, by the time SmartOS get something you have Intel, IBM, RH, Google, AWS that all work on Linux that have thousands of people working on many more things, not to mention HW implementation, and that's not even talking about HW integration, pricing, security, support ect ...
Remember: once you retire, no one cares if you were a director. When you are 60, you are just old. The people that do care, you probably don't want to be friends with them.
Good enough is by definition, good enough.

It's up to the team and customers to decide on that however. Database integrity is particularly important, so with limited information, I'd say you made the right decision. Therefore the first draft of the code was not good enough.

So, we should all be in agreement now, right?
Not Texas iirc.
Is the article implying causation or just correlation? Because either cause->effect pathway would imply correlation. The pathway you describe seems like a common way to get to humility, through actually learning how little domain knowledge you have.
I think you can replace "PDF" in your question with "document" and use anything (latex/word/libre) then just print it as pdf.
thanks for you reply. i think our philosophies are aligned in expectation and this is part of the issue i am trying to resolve.

to be more clear about what is happening; i already am building a project which i plan to continue work on independent of support i manage to gain. my expectation is that any support will accelerate progress of my project and i do not not foresee a particular requirement to keep my project secret... therefore making this an open project will at least allow for external feedback on the decisions i intend to make.

i think my problem is that my current skill-set is strongly aligned to being a software developer. therefore i think there is a high risk to me making bad "business decisions". a few examples:
- marketing stuff
- legal stuff
- financing stuff
- how do gain customers
- what do my customers want
- "things that are done without a computer"
- etc

i particularly agree with your last two paragraphs... i would like to summarize them to the following expectation:

"an individual would be personally invested if they are actively contributing to decisions and do not feel that the decisions made by the community are unfair in cases where the individuals decision differs from the community consensus"

i have created a loomio account as per feedback from this posts thread: https://www.loomio.org/g/NUlbf4Y0/glitr-io

i also have the blog i previously created and is mentioned in the post body.

any advice on external tools for this is appreciated, but i would prefer to to consolidate the number of tools (to a minimum to make it easier for me to maintain). im hoping the blog (https://glitr.io) will be sufficient. i have integrated Discus (https://disqus.com) for comments. i dont see any particular reason i would be unable to integrate any other tools.
person you replied to here:

well yes, I was being sarcastic but I'm glad it sparked this high value comment you wrote. It is easy to see how the 'consensus narrative' changes, as the accounts are censored and their comments are in fact promoted by the collective community. But it is impossible to see who was part of that collective community.
Biggest benefit of using blockchain and cryptocurrency here is open trust (this term is the best way I can think about describing this). Any internal database is subject to all kind of human and technical errors. But with a network of trusted parties that solves the Byzantine Generals Problem. This becomes secure and trusted as trust is given. No one can hack it at will without taking the 50% of the network down and compromising multiple entities. This is a bizarre technical, social and economic feat. I wish Apple was the one pulling this instead of FB. But quite certainly there are more FB users than iPhone users.
Sorry if I'm out of the loop, but which proposal are you referring to, and who proposed it?
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I place no moral judgments on either, nor do I claim this evolutionary link is certain by any means. Just that both are useful in different contexts, and in the modern world where sexual intercourse isn’t required for procreation, we have the freedom to choose.
The mind is not limited by the laws of physics in the sense that it can actually think about unfalsifiable ideas.

Then we work backwards and try to get it done with falsifiability.
Hang around reddit enough and you see the pattern.

Comments only ever on one side of the issue. Lots of magical upvotes for any post. Any dissenting posts gets mass reported to the mods.
thanks for the reply. see: https://www.loomio.org/g/NUlbf4Y0/glitr-io
One more datapoint here if you care.

The industry is filled with hugely interesting technical challenges even if you're not at FAANG scale. Trivial things like building a cost efficient delivery infrastructure to reducing the number of steps between receiving that first page load to ad delivery and then on to analytics. A lot of it is just math and it's fun when you structure your challenges that way. It's like inverse Pinky and the Brain everyday. We're not scheming to erode everyone's privacy, we're just lab rats looking for the shortest route from one end of the maze to the other.

I also left after a few years because all that maze running got boring eventually and I decided I'd like something with a little bit more meaning. Or, from another point of view, those years eroding everyone's privacy has enabled me to climb high enough up on Maslow's pyramid such that I now have the comfort to worry about self actualisation.

edit:

There were a few people that totally drank the kool aid, and believed that what we were doing was enabling people to gain a livelihood by running a popular website. Usually the really young ones or those at management level.

Those from a developed country were mostly interested in the technical problems and improving their engineering skills.

Those from developing countries were most definitely in it for the money.
I disagree. Many of these tech companies, Google included, are indeed too big and exert outsize influence on a variety of fields, but saying they aren't "accountable" to their employees isn't entirely accurate.

As an employee in one of these companies, you have far more control over product strategy, direction, actual execution etc that i simply struggle to find in most if not all other sectors of private or public employment opportunities.

Also, as the board/shareholders/owners of these one of these companies, you wouldn't want to "Reward" behavior at the workplace that disrupts the morale of the broader employee base and lowers productivity through acts of targeted disruption such as walkouts. Lets be honest, if this individual wanted to make such points or force change, she could do so on her own time, or even on company time after building up the skills needed to reach a position of influence and use the regular channels of influence to exert change instead of what is essentially a protest of defiance against a private company that is paying for the time used to disrupt their own business.

Not to say i don't agree with your points about these tech companies essentially abusing their positions of power. . .the anti competitive legal route should be far more effective at reining them in and adding accountability compared to adding more chaos in the form of employee protests to the mix.
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In my experience, AdTech companies will pay top dollar for engineering leadership (CTO, VP, etc.) but then hire a legion of junior developers at entry-level salaries to execute. I do wonder if AdTech hiring managers focus on young and inexperienced people fresh out of school who are attracted to beer and ping-pong and a decent salary for a first job.
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Did land person on moon.
Do have world's biggest tech companies / Vertical landing rockets / AI leadership etc.
Doesn't sound like we are bad at hard things although we do have our fair share of screw ups.
> You must be from a pretty affluent area if you believe racism is a non-issue.

I'm not, and I'm also not white.

But hey, keep your eyes on the prize and focus on the actual racism out there, rather than diversion tactics like people complaining about other people complaining about strangers coming to their door.
Lemma:

> Learned as junior: Legacy code is hard to read. Understood as senior: Legacy code that I wrote myself is hard to read.

Lemma:

> Learned as junior: Technical skills matter most. Understood as senior: Communication skills matter most.

Theorem:

Communication needs to target the people of the future.
On a complete tangent, I think "rogue" might be the most misspelled word for those that otherwise have good spelling. It's still jarring every time I see it, decade after decade.

And "loose" instead of "lose", but that one is just confusing.
If you are even vaguely interested in ancient human DNA, human migration, or human evolution I highly recommend Insito.me's[0] podcast, The Insight [1]. Improvements in genomics DNA extraction techniques combined with several key paleontological finds, have resulted in a revolution in human paleontology and anthropology.

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I've seen a lot of cases where "the speed of your server-side programming language" was, in fact, the problem—because the developer was doing stuff in it that they should have told their DB to do for them. Basically the speed of the server-side programming language doesn't matter only as long as you're very careful not to, you know, use it to do anything. Which is a realistic goal in many applications, by leaning on one or more DBs more heavily.
For some reason, any sort of styleguide discussion always reminds me of this: https://33hpwq10j9luq8gl43e62q4e-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...
Now that's an interesting take :-)

Distributing said energy to cells would be non-trivial, and you'd still need nutrients.

Also humans need rest and unlike machines, the range of environmental conditions in which they can rest is narrower than their operational conditions (all of which are rather narrow and non-existent beyond the biosphere). Also, you can't suspend or reboot humans. Once they crash, they must be recycled.
Defamation seems the obvious one.

Also, in Europe being in a public place doesn't mean you automatically lose your right to privacy.
It's fascinating how after periods of stability and chaos, the ant eventually forms "highways" of regular behavior. Aside from fluid motion/sand in an hour glass, I can't think of many analogies in everyday life for this order > chaos > order pattern.

Alongside being interesting mathematically, multi-colored Langton's Ant videos are hypnotic to watch. The patterns they make are beautiful, and I'm embarrassed by how much I find myself rooting for this "ant" to make it as far as it can.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZS7WtRE4_Y
Being abstract here, but you get the idea.

"We'll also need $50/hour to review the app...no upper bound on the time..."
We have a long history of education based on punishment, reward, and PR.

Myself I've felt compelled to pretend to know-it-all out of fear of being excluded. Being excluded is not a naive thing, it could mean not getting any job, and falling in disgrace and being hated by a majority of people. It happened to me for saying the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time to the wrong people.

There is also the problem of PR, the post-modern fallacy, people who think they can convince anyone of anything just to get what they want, because truth is relative, and it doesn't really matter if you are good or competent as long as you get a seat at the big table.

Modern western society has a low tolerance for ignorance, which is sad given that many people is ignorant not out of their will, they were just dealt a bad hand. Also, it is very difficult for ignorant people to get out of their ignorance if nobody helps them, there are unknown unknowns which they cannot see without external help.
So, I wouldn't say that ads incentivize user-focused development. I'm saying the incentivize paying attention to the needs/interests/desires/etc. of lower-income users. Without ads, almost all software shops would be better off ignoring that market segment entirely.

Do you really think you'd have so many developers, competing so aggressively with each other in an attempt to appeal to millions of people with a collective negative disposable income, the bulk of which is probably not spent on software at all? No. Even if you were hugely successful, you'd be lucky to get enough income to pay a developer's salary.
Former attorney here. I'd guess it would be a claim like defamation or false light. These laws aren't typically used in this way, but I could see them being applied here.

For defamation, for example, the claim would be that by including someone's face in an advertisement about home security videos, Amazon is implying that the person pictured is someone whom you would not want snooping around your house because he's a criminal. This would tend to hurt that person's reputation, which is the legal test for defamation.
My dog tries to tell me this everyday.
This. That's one of the reasons. Here anything between 22 and 5h is also considered night work. If your work is nocturnal (e.g. a security guard) you receive a "night time bonus" on top of your hourly rate. If it isn't though (e.g. a programmer), in theory one would need to receive double hourly rate to work those hours. This does not apply to contractors here, but is an issue when hiring someone as a formal employee.
I think the idea of sadness is that choice were not made with relatively few externally imposed restrictions from a place of independence. Rather the decisions were taken from a set of choices made in a context of a society that imposes restrictions than necessary based on somewhat arbitrary traditions, or genderism, or biased, or at least questionable economic restrictions.
I noticed some parallels when Daiichi meltdowns were ongoing and "everything was fine" - I guess it's the initial shock that unthinkable has happened and paralyzing disbelief leading to lies and cover ups. I even remember how shocked Japanese PM looked like on TV after the first real info came out of TEPCO, not mentioning strange movements of US army ships likely detecting meltdown right away.
Haha that's pretty funny. "Who was your first college roommate?" "A bunch of garbage."