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> Master Card and Visa are failing, because we have something better in place.

Not entirely true, India has made payments cubersome to make a transfer through visa/mc, you need to go through lengthy 3d verification even then some cards are issued with International transaction disabled and there is no way to enable it on those card without changing your card to International debit card.

There is no way to purchase anything from an international website using UPI or Rupay card or many issued debit cards.

Secondly, getting merchant services to process foreign card is not easy and this makes building SaaS in India impossible unless you happen to be among few lucky people who have American companies registered to their name.

India needs to get rid of these protectionist policies and I've no idea why America doesn't put more pressure on India to open itself up to international market, not only does it improve quality of life of people of India but also enables local people to have quality tools through which they can produce better output.

Get all quality hardware/electronics/tools gadget at the price without any import duties or taxes and local makers win.

If Indians vote for me, I remove custom duties from electronics then from machineries and finally I remove tax from food items because there is only so much a person can eat. I don't understand why food items have to have taxes.

Right now, India is trapped in hand of few politically supported corporate houses who have all power to exploit Indian resources but closed to foreign companies.

If either way people of India loose, it's better to lose with multiple options in your hand.

America can easily make India change its way, put large tarrif on software outsourcing which goes to India and demand removal of traffic placed on Chinese/American goods.

Remove that crap policy which demands you must have Indian stake in corporation before you can setup shop in India because anyone can go go America and setup shop there, so why India is some special snowflake?

Indians can't buy German tools because and they've to do with locally made shoddy tools which results in crap quality of output.

This will not change in India why? Because every major political party depends on those industrial houses for their money and won't do anything which threatens their existence.

When people ask me why Ambani is so rich, what exactly did he invent or what exactly are they do which is comparable to world class production. I tell them they are rich because India is a protectionist country.

I am not from India but living in India for quite sometime before I lived in china and before that in Europe.

I see lots of desire in Indian people to make their work and life better but all tools are made twice as expensive as a result they are stuck with low quality local options who enrich few of the industrial houses who are in bed with political parties of India.
Serious question: How many other real universities (not places with one office above a coffee shop offering correspondence courses to the gullible) are there in Oxford? I spent some of my teens playing pinball in the student bar at one of the Oxford Brookes halls (Harcourt Hill maybe?) -- and already by the point you're counting Brookes you're stretching the point, it wouldn't be named that if Oxford wasn't famous. It's not quite "London" Stansted Airport, but it's barely in Oxford.
Knock $10-20k off the price and put that towards hiring people to clean it. Bundle the house sale with cleaning services for a few years or something. The amount of people willing to deal with it will grow as the price falls, but that's not newsworthy. That's the uncomfortable truth for people wanting to sell.
This is great news for consumers. I've always wanted to build another pc based on AMD chips and it looks like Zen 2 is going to be it.
For anyone else reading this, the option is found in System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys...

For more complex modifications there is Karabiner-Elements, which is especially useful if you use Hammerspoon.
Everybody Be Cool, This Is a Robbery
M-itx cases are about 7.5 liters at the smallest (XBox size) although some specialty cases exist in the 5-6 liter range; a NUC is typically about 1 liter.
The big advantage from my perspective is component reusability independent of Framework (React, JSP, Angular, none, etc). A couple scenarios come in mind, you have many teams working on web app(s) that need to have the same styling, CX, controls. You can distribute them this way without tying them to a framework. Another example is complex controls that can be downloaded to speed up development.
Beatles is a pun, it's good because of that.
Its not about being loyal to the manager. No matter how good you are, there is no such thing as the company being loyal. The company wants to extract as much value out of the employees as possible. Their ultimate goal is to please shareholders or investors. The company wouldn’t think twice about laying off employees, or not paying market rates if they can get away with it.

Salary compression and inversion are real. A company is more than willling to pay market rates to get a new employee but barely give existing employees a cost of living raise. I judge my manager on how well he can push for compensation for me.
At this point, what is TOTP actually doing for you? If you're using 1Password, it's already generating unguessable passwords for you. Your TOTP codes are literally just an extension of that password.
I think this article conflates two very different motivations for using 2FA:

1) An organization has valuable resources it wishes to protect and secure from understandable but avoidable user mistakes, like phishing. For example: an employer. Notably, in most of these cases there’s an authority to which the user can appeal to recover account access if 2FA access is lost. It makes sense to be more strict.

2) A user wants to protect something they value, but the provider loses nothing if the user’s account is compromised through user error. For example: personal email. In this case the onus is on the user to ensure they don’t lose access, and the provider may be unwilling or unable to accept the liability of enabling account recovery.

The threat models for the two are very different, and in the second case, it’s in the user’s best interest to favor availability of access over all else.

I secure my email with TOTP. I have the key stored in 1Password. In all cases 1Password (native app, not web version) is compromised, I’ve lost the battle already. However, I’m not worth burning a zero day on or otherwise targeting specifically. I also have backup codes saved in my personal disk backups. Anyone willing to break into my house to get them could just threaten me more easily.

Be very aware why you’re offering 2FA to your users. Are you 1, or 2?
Careful now. Advocating violence in a public forum is illegal.
Yes, and it's pretty adamant that it's not to be run on linux. (like, you have to edit some source to add something like "yes I really mean to do this")

Once you blow past the warnings about compiling it on linux, it still failed to actually work in my testing. Fair enough.

It doesn't seem like it should be an insurmountable problem, but I'm a level or two from being able to make it work by sheer force of code.
So the name is vulgar when pronounced? That's awesome! You must work in a really chill organization.

Also, you definitely want to change the name. Lots of organizations aren't that chill, and you haven't sold anything to them yet.
Perhaps because there's more money to be made with "worse" languages? You can make more money in language A if something takes a day in language A, and only an hour in language B, at similar cognitive load.
The problem with Google+ is that using it felt like work.

I pretty much stopped using it early on when I realized organizing everyone into the various "circles" was a huge undertaking. At the time you HAD to put people into circles and I had a lot of people from Twitter to import.. so I gave up and just didn't use it.
People don't like it when supply and demand applies to them, especially wealthier folk like those who can build mansions.
Same issue here. I would never use “indigenously”, and the google links to the word are all to online dictionaries, not to actual usage examples.
MIPS R3000
> It reminds me of people who become a doctor for the money.

The flip side of that is that the career you want to be in very rarely looks like advertised; people going in for the money are the ones who end up the least disillusioned when they enter the job market.
Not within the unsafe blocks itself, no. A more pertinent metric might be "number of lines of code in any modules that contain the `unsafe` keyword". It's true that certain operations can only happen within the unsafe block itself, but those operations can potentially invalidate safety-critical invariants being upheld by any code that the unsafe block can reach, which means the buck ultimately stops at the module boundary. If you have a module that contains unsafe code, factor out the bits that need `unsafe` into as small a submodule as possible with a well-considered interface so that you have as little code to audit as necessary.

The fortunate thing is that, in practice, you can program in Rust for years without ever needing to write an `unsafe` keyword, depending on your chosen domain. `unsafe` is mostly useful for calling external C code, for implementing maximally-efficient custom data structures, and interfacing with hardware.
I used to work for a company called Revivio. It was quite funny hearing sales/marketing folks try to spell it out over the phone without sounding like they were singing Old McDonald. Thanks, self-styled genius marketing VP!
Might've worked if the thing wasn't sitting on its own site.
China is creating an alternate reality about the Hong Kong protests in real time
There is no 'Indian ecosystem' - there is an Anglo-American one in Indian flavour. That's not much to work for - a cheap fake.
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I've got one (kaihua browns) and like that too. But I don't type on my laptop keyboard as if it has that much key travel.
Flow's perf issues has more to do with bugs than anything. Its usually pretty near instant even on big projects, but do one little thing wrong somewhere that hits an edge case and everything goes to hell and you'll never find where it came from.
Or even Linux, with its strict patch process, still managed to have 68% of 2018's kernel CVEs, related to memory corruption issues due to C's use.
That’s why you need to move to places with better income to cost of living ratios.
I love that quote about Yakuza. It’s so Japanese.

Reminds me of mobsters in America driving Cadillac’s and how much that probably helped sales. I know my dad loved watching mob movies and bought a Cadillac in the 90s that was straight out of the movies.

I’m curious if there was a badass motivation there similar to middle class suburbanites owning a Harley style motorcycle.
The market charges based on perceived value, not cost of materials. You aren't going to be getting a 12-core Intel chip for $500, that's for sure.
Only 89 (it wasn't KFC). But yes; common pattern.
Amazon received a US patent to provide “surveillance as a service.”
Most of the performance of TCP stacks has more to do with the order that comparisons are made for incoming packets (sometimes called fast path -- check for and handle normal packets first), locking of data structures, and congestion strategies (including retransmit behavior, SACK, etc). Macros or typing is less likely to make that faster.

For a new stack, though, correctness and readability are more important than performance.
I've worked for a company with a whale client like that (maybe not total shutdown bad but pretty close). The argument for why they never bothered to just acquire the startup was their fear of ruining the agility of the startup. That seemed like a reasonable concern as they were a massive, heavily regulated company.
> Why are they not motivated enough by their work maybe? Are they not aware maybe how a higher than "normal" engaging in distracting activities will hinder their development and ultimately their career?

Great point, and I think it needs elaboration. Particularly if increased slacking/FB use is something that has increased over time for a person, I would also take it as a sign that they are losing motivation. Banning FB or chastising them when you see them use it won't restore that motivation.

A lot of people go through phases like this. It can be symptomatic of:

- Overwork, stress, potential burnout

- A workload the person finds repetitive, not challenging, or uninteresting (maybe they need a change in task type)

- A feeling that work is not rewarded, possibly that person needs more praise or recognition, or even just interest from manager/others about what they are doing

- Person is lost or stuck on what to do next, the task may be too hard for them or they need to talk it over with someone. Many introverts especially will not ask for help when stuck.

> engineer's brains being constantly on fire

The elusive flow. In my experience flow states are most common when: (A) there is sufficient freedom to explore the problem space, (B) fairly rapid feedback, and (C) people are impressed by or interested in what I am doing. Success breeds success. I am convinced that one of the most important jobs of a manager is to cheerlead for the team and remind them why their work is interesting and valued. Who else is going to do that if not the manager? Feelings of success and confidence breeds more success.

Having people do quick demos or small green-field projects, even if it isn't exactly the top priority at the moment, then complimenting the result, is a good way to boost morale and interest in my experience.
I know next to nothing about religion/the Irish Chronicles but I did hike the Camino de Santiago which ends in Galicia and my favorite pit stop along the way was Sierra de Atapuerca[1] and the Museum of Human Evolution in Burgos. The museum (I assume deliberately) avoids any mention of religion whatsoever but my recollection[2] of the tour at the dig site was that they had found evidence of early humans migrating to northern Spain from northern Africa. I would be curious to know if it was a happy accident that medieval monks stumbled into a somewhat correct explanation or whether they had some evidence to support their theory.

[1] http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/989

[2] In Spanish and I am barely conversational so it’s very likely that I missed some important details.
Who needs a taxi in Tokyo anyway? Can someone make a taxi-hailing app for inaka (Japanese countryside/less populated areas). You usually need to call a local taxi company there, but it's difficult to get a voice call SIM card for a foreign visitor. If you could get a taxi at a precise point of the map without having to somehow call and explain your whereabouts on the phone, it would be nothing short of a revolution.
A single use password extension.

The important thing here is that you only enter the secret once. It’s different from a password which is reused by design.
I have literally never heard anyone mispronounce Azure.
It doesn't estimate the size of your vocab. It measures your propensity to distinguish wordy looking things from nonwordy looking things.
Objectively better than the garbage the GP mentioned but objectively worse than Telegram.

After using Telegram for work at my previous job, switching to slack now with a new company is jarring. Their absolute dogshit electron apps constantly hog system resources and take forever to load. Also Telegram is free and has a far better audio and video chat and again, free...

I find it mind boggling companies pay for chat. Both discord and Telegram provide all the same features, incl bots and do so for free, what gives?
From T-shirts to ice cream, Kroger pushes house brands in grocery wars
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There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -Phil Karlton
Debt is the new predator to the old darwinian selection.
Then what will help, because if reason doesn't then I don't know of an alternative.

I listened carefully to her - I didn't prejudge her. I wanted to hear her side. She was clueless.

Tell me what I should have done.
Right there with you. We sold our 1800sqft single-family for a 1500sqft townhome shortly after the kid flew the nest. And we still have two bedrooms that are seldom used (one is a guest room, used 3-4x/year, the other is an office used never, except by the dog).
In addition to that Gmail at the beginning was a really outstanding offering so people accepted the waiting time. It offered a massively better web interface than practically everyone else and really a lot of storage space. It took other free offerings years to catch up.
I can assure you that you are fundamentally wrong. First impression is exceptionally important and the name/icon is the first thing anyone sees.
> They are unlikely to have mortgaged it, as most lenders won't lend past retirement for obvious reasons

You can't deny a loan due to age in the U.S. It's specifically forbidden by federal law.
"Hacker school" rebranded to "The Recurse Center"

www.recurse.com
The source, Videocardz, deals in leaks. Someone broke the NDA but I don't see anything in the picture that would reveal who.
I was an IC6 at Google when Google+ launched...

From my perspective, I think partitioning the Google+ team into their own Dark Tower with their own super-healthy cafeteria that was for them and their executives alone was the biggest problem. IMO this even foreshadows separating off Google Brain from the rest of Google and giving them resources not available to anyone else. Google was at its best a relatively open culture and 2011 is the year they killed other cultural icons such as Google Labs and (unofficially) deprecated 20% time. I think the road to the Google we see today started then. It's also the year they paid too much for Motorola and started pushing Marissa Mayer out the door.

Then there was the changing story of the 2011 bonus. When I hired in, we were all told our 2011 bonus would be tied to the success of Google+. That's a fantastic way to rally your co-workers, except... Once they launched Google+, the Google+ Eliterati (so to speak) changed their minds and announced that any Google+ bonus was for Google+ people alone. Maximum emotionally intelligent genius IMO. Now your own co-workers have been burned. Also not very "googly."

Finally, there was "Real Names." The week of its launch everyone I knew wanted an invite and I used up every single one of them and continued to do so as more were made available to me. Then "Real Names" happened and people stopped asking for invites overnight. That's the moment for me when the tide turned against this thing.

I really liked the initial Google+ UI personally, but the UI ran head-on into the nonsensical "Kennedy" initiative wherein some brilliant designer seemed to decide that since monitors are now twice the size they used to be, they should add twice the whitespace to show the same amount of information as on a much smaller screen. Subversives within the company took to posting nearly blank sheets of printer paper on walls with the single word "Kennedy" in a tiny font you'd only see if you got close to the things. That said, my godawful company man manager would repeatedly proclaim how beautiful he thought the Kennedy layout was in our office for all to hear whenever they updated GMail or Search to use it.

Of course, there are other reasons beyond my tiny perspective here, but I did have a front row seat for this and it was really disappointing to see a potential Facebook killer die of a thousand papercuts like this.
Books that set out to be comedy don't really work for me. HHGTTG is probably the best I've read but even that was just... tolerable. Biggest laughs I've had came from "normal" fiction, sprinkled in here and there. Dickens is good at that. Best laugh I've had from a book may have been from a set up chapter followed by a punchline first sentence of the next in Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora, a book that's otherwise occasionally funny but not at all a comedy. I had to put it down for a while to stop laughing.

By contrast, comedy's almost the only thing that works for me in silent film. And not just the slapstick (though that's great) but also visual-narrative comedy. That and mind-blowingly-large-scale spectacle, like the epics usually manage for some part of their runtime. Serious, personal drama? Nope. Books or talkies for that.
People have been saying exactly this for 20 years now, and it still hasn't happened: organizations still entrust Windows with all their sensitive data and critical services. The fact is, if these victims had been on Linux instead of Windows, they would have been mostly immune to attacks, certainly to these ransomware attacks that only target Windows.

Remember, when you're hiking and you're attacked by a bear, you don't need to outrun the bear. You only need to outrun the slowest hiker in your group.
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It's comedy. Most sci-fi and fantasy novels are serious, so having a comedic bent is unusual, which is interesting.

Beyond that, though, comedy itself can be interesting because it looks at life from a different perspective. Much of comedy is based around the idea of looking at the mundane aspects of life, and getting a fresh perspective.

Why do we drive on 'parkways' but park on 'driveways'? etc.

We have governments, and bureaucracy in our daily lives.

What would that look like if you extended that concept to an intergalatic civilization? You'd have a race of bureaucrats that end up destroying our planet to make room for a new construction project.

It's common for sci-fi stories to focus on the fantastical and awe-inspiring aspects of the story, like teleportation and faster-than-light travel.

This, however, focuses on the mundane aspects of life. Yes, there are fantastical elements to the story, like 'improbability drives' and such. But the focus of the story is on the banalities of life. The daily quirks and joys and annoyances that affect us all.

Arthur Dent is dealing with local red tape, and the local pencil-pushers try to destroy his house to make way for a highway. His universe then grows dramatically as he learns that there is a vast universe out there, teaming with intelligent life. And guess what? He's still stuck dealing with bureaucrats that want to destroy his home.

Life isn't always about psychic powers and laser guns. Sometimes it's just about crushing on a girl that you like, and having her run off the with asshole with a better ride.

That's an interesting story, even if the asshole has two heads and the 'ride' is a spaceship.
Yeah, we use teams and have had none of those issues. In fact, I'd say it is better than Slack now, which is what we used before switching to Teams last fall. Plus Teams is in the whole Microsoft enterprise bundle already. Slack's biggest challenge will be Teams. Or their enterprise market share will boil down to, enterprises not using Microsoft, .. so Google...
Discord has essentially the same app but better voice/call support and other various features. But they seem focused on the gamer market.
What I still don't understand with bank transfers is: what control is there to ensure that debits and credits are offsetting. Doesn't this rely on the bank be being honest? Can't the sending bank just not debit the senders account?
Curiously, no open IT / security positions listed:

https://rivierabch.applicantpro.com/jobs/
Last JetBrains questionnaire proves, once again, how little most devs care about them.

"Which of the following tools do you or your team use for guideline enforcement or other code quality/analysis?"

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2019/cpp/
Leaderless teams / self organising teams

It's a huge topic in the study of management