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Why on earth would they prescribe antibiotics for a virus? They don't seem very competent
> I'm not into Indian space endeavours but probably the money comes from poor taxpayers who would be way better off if they weren't plundered in the first place.

If you don't know then it's best not to talk because it only helps perpetuate the already negative stereotype that most have. The poor aren't even taxed in India. Indians are only taxed after they have a minimum salary of 7.5 lakhs per annum (accounting for all the deductions). Which is around 11,000 USD. And no this amount isn't low by Indian standards (the per-capita income is 7,060 USD). The cost of living in India is extremely low and inflation is well controlled (< 3%) so this amount is actually pretty decent to live in a Tier-1 city with a nice 2-bedroom apartment on rent. You can call this the lower middle class. And even they pay lesser tax until they hit the 20 lakhs per annum (30,000 USD) bracket (5%-20% based on where you fall in the slab rates).

And almost 70% of the rural households practice Agriculture in India. All these people are exempted from paying both Income Tax and GST. And if they have a bad season sometimes their loans are also waived.

India is a 3 trillion $ economy. India needs to find new ways to get to a 10 trillion $ economy if it wants to improve standards of living for all Indians and lift the remaining 300 million people out of poverty (it has already lifted 271 million people out of poverty in 10 years [1]. Can you name a single country that has achieved this feat in such a short span of time?). One of the areas where India can earn big is Space. ISRO is already a profitable enterprise for the Government. There is no reason why anyone will want it to be shutdown for anything. Especially when it is making huge profits.

[1]: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-lifted-271-mill...
So, I'm risking sounding like a fringe anti-vaxxer here, but no, vaccine use does not apply the same selection pressure, because we know that vaccines wane, but generally speaking, acquired immunity is for a lifetime. Also, there are different types of vaccines - some target bacterial infections such as pertussis, while others target viruses. Here's an example of pertussis adapting to the vaccine use [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11485646
> In the Netherlands, as in many other western countries, pertussis vaccines have been used extensively for more than 40 years. Therefore, it is conceivable that vaccine-induced immunity has affected the evolution of Bordetella pertussis. Consistent with this notion, pertussis has reemerged in the Netherlands, despite high vaccination coverage. Further, a notable change in the population structure of B. pertussis was observed in the Netherlands subsequent to the introduction of vaccination in the 1950s. Finally, we observed antigenic divergence between clinical isolates and vaccine strains, in particular with respect to the surface-associated proteins pertactin and pertussis toxin. Adaptation may have allowed B. pertussis to remain endemic despite widespread vaccination and may have contributed to the reemergence of pertussis in the Netherlands.
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This is coming up b/c of the 10x engineer tweet from an Accel Ventures VC. This is how they defined a 10x engineer/what to look for in order to spot them:

- They hate meetings (doesn't everybody?)

- They keep irregular hours

- They use a black desktop background

- They wear out the i, f, x keys on their keyboard instead of a, s e (the latter 3 are apparently correlated to sending lots of emails somehow)

- They know every line of code and can therefor immediately trace back any bug in prod to the exact line of code

- They are full-stack engineers, code is code so they can do everything but they won't touch UI

- They convert thought into code by caffeine fueled code binge sessions in which they implement any product feature over the span of 4-6 hours

- They rarely if ever need to rely on documentation

- They are always using the latest and newest tech

- They are poor mentors and interviewers b/c: They always think "It takes too long to teach or discuss with others, I would rather do it myself."

- They don't hack things, they write quality code and know exactly how the code needs and will evolve over time

- They rarely job hunt or move out of a company

https://twitter.com/skirani/status/1149302828420067328

I can't even begin to comprehend how some of these are in any way an indicator of a 10x anything.

Keep that in mind as you read through this post.
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I would agree but only in the context of tge "smart jerk" meme which bears all of the marks of sociopathic manipulation - especially with vagueness.

Essentially the real jerks are the sociopaths who try to bully everyone else into compliance and not upshowing them with their ability to actually do their job instead of wasting time on office politics. I'll take a whole team of surly coworkers over those assholes any day of the week but I have a strong and justified prejudice against sociopaths because they ruin everything they touch for self-advancement.
this whole series is nice about that: http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...
I was looking for Planner (which never got past a subset implementation called Micro-Planner, used by Terry Winograd to implement his natural language understanding program SHRDLU), and Conniver.
Yes, but if you think faith alone is not enough you can always drop back to the sacred texts of the proofs.

But it is weird not being shown the proofs for things like generalization for other situations. I studied Calculus while in engineering at college and we always got the proofs for the tricks we were using.
Eventually, robots will go through all of the landfills and recover a lot of the materials in it.

And they might get all the energy they need to do it from the garbage itself. Hey, if insects can do it, robots will eventually be able to do it.
13000 volts to your home toaster is a bit of a problem don't you think?
Louis CK once said "The only time you should look at what's on some else's plate of food is to check if they have enough." That really put things in perspective to me.

If I'm not making enough for the amount of work that I do, I will find another job.
> If you think you browser is fast, you'd be blown away by any decent application.

In data centers, loading data from networked server, where it's in memory, can be used over loading data from a disk, because disk is comparatively slow.

A web app can load JavaScript assembler, which isn't much slower than a desktop app written in C.

Bigger - and slower - parts of the web app can be loaded after the app starts interacting. So - at least in principle - no sizeable speed difference, which would blow somebody away.

Advantage of web app is cross platform uniformity. Write once, run everywhere.

Of course, reality can make adjustments, but we can see and invent things.
That study only looked at resource usage, and not the consequences of carelessly discarded shopping bags clogging up rivers and beaches.

The best shopping bag to use is still an upcycled bag made from otherwise discarded material, as you are not creating demand for the production of new bags. Sail cloth is a good sturdy fabric, and a bag made from it will literally last you a lifetime.
The tragedy of it is that we are technologically better placed than ever to make and mend items which will last a lifetime, and beyond, but consumerism and never-ending economic growth mean that instead we have planned obsolescence, and almost everything made as cheaply as possible, with consequent reduction in quality and less satisfaction overall.
Did you read what I said? An article from "Forbes India" about how there's 18 Indians doing cutting edge research is not related to what I said.
Did not know about it, ty.
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>dealing with NATs still requires tech knowledge

Have you considered MiniUPnP library? It's very easy to use. Of course, the modem has to support UPnP(the most of are) and has it enabled by default(not sure how many are, mine is).
> It’s basically every other popular post on Reddit that isn’t a cat picture or joke

Top is the most popular reddit posts, one assumes. I was pointing out that the parent comment was trivially false but presented as fact.
Re reading I see it’s ambiguous. I meant denominated in a positive light.
Well stated. If I could upvote this comment x10 I would. There are always a trade-offs.
I meant the convenience of tossing something away and having it go somewhere properly out of the way.

You mention "defecating wherever you find convenient" - yes, another pleasure of modern life is that at any time I can walk to a nearby bathroom and defecate, and do so on top of much more sanitary infrastructure than we ever had in the past.
Having worked with someone I'd consider a 10x engineer who did not create much technical debt, I think the defining characteristic of the group is the ability to choose good abstractions. This of course means that they are better able to shine in different contexts (he was not 10x faster at creating webforms in React, for example).

A story I heard from him recently came from a consultation with a team at unicorn that had spent months modeling a particular problem using a set of graph algorithms. For the past 3 months they'd failed to get the performance they wanted despite a great deal of effort. They brought him in and explained the situation, he realized quickly that the results they needed could be achieved with a simulated annealing style job. Three days after walking in the door he successfully implemented a solution to a problem that had stumped the entire team, in their area of expertise, for 3 months. His career is littered with such anecdotes.

Definitely a 10x engineer IMO.
I'm fine with autogenerated crap, (because frankly that's the only way I'll get a comparison between a g3258 and a ryzen 3600) but much less fine with incorrect autogenerated crap.
In the field of scientific research it's obvious that some people are much more productive than the average/worst people. Einstein research output is easily 10x the output of the average physics prof at the top 50 unis in the world.

The question is simply what percentage of people in a given field are 10x, not if they exist.
> Boomerang is a language for writing lenses — well-behaved bidirectional transformations

I love this unabashed reference to the original use of the term "lens". I love Haskell, but I'm embarrassed by its later, different use of the term "lens".
Yeah, the study by Sackman, Erikson, and Grant is exactly the study that originated the concept, and it's the first one listed in Steve McConnell's survey, which I link to in the post.
The poor aren't paying taxes in India. They are exempted from paying any tax. Taxation in India only begins if you are in the lower middle class. And even then, you only start by paying 5% Income Tax. If you take in deductions you can also be tax free for upto 7.5 lakhs (almost 10,000 USD). India's Per Capita Income is 7000 USD (4.8 lakhs).

On the other hand, India has already lifted 271 million people out of poverty in 10 years [1]. Can you name a single country that has achieved this feat in such a short span of time?

[1] https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-lifted-271-mill...
I presume they will, but will modern greenhousing and 3D farming (under artificial light in factories) help to reduce soil erosion, or not?
Actually, increasing resistance has reduced my strain from typing. After a few minutes of typing, I start to bottom out less and less, and instead I feel like I have little shock absorbers under each key, reducing the impact of every press.

As for the community, most seem to dislike high resistance switches, which is why my preference for MX Clears leaves me with few brands to purchase from, and my dream ideal of a higher resistance Topre will probably never happen.
There are definitely engineers who can solve the same problem using 10x the memory and cpu cycles of a really top-notch engineer... are these the mythical 10x engineers?
I saw this on reddit and liked it enough, I added it to a short list of things I found on the internet that I liked:

> Comparison is the thief of joy.

So, don't compare.
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What you're missing is covered in the article: the purpose of testing is to improve the product, not accurately document all the problems with one iteration of it. Better to test with 3 sessions of 5 users, than 1 session of 15.
If none of the core SBCL team use Solaris then they won't know that SBCL doesn't work on it.

I'm sure that people will suggest things to try if you post details of what you have done to get it to build. Leave out words like "despicable" though.

Your account info states that you want to work with the Solaris successor projects, debugging a complex application is a good way to learn more about an OS.
Servants Without Masters
What garbage.

EDIT: utter and complete garbage

Surely this is not written by a developer?

Update: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirani/

The person who wrote that tweet is not a developer.

The conclusions this VC has drawn about what makes developers productive is Voodoo.

He's observed people who he thinks are productive, and gathered together his observations/prejudices/misjudgements about those people and concluded that the Voodoo is the magic. I'm sure there's some great analogy out there about drawing conclusions about how something works based on misunderstood observations, but I can't think of that analogy.
If there's food/greade on the item that can't be removed for one reason or another toss it, it can't be recycled efficiently. There solved your moral dilemma. Generally only clean paper, glass, and metal are recyclable. Plastics depend entirely on the locality and still require it to be clean.

Also I work at a food pantry. Donations of canned goods are always welcome, same for razors, toiletries, etc. Anything that can be eaten without a stove is generally welcome.
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https://d.godbolt.org/z/_r6C9N

Example of an Integer overflow based optimization
That isn't neccessarily true for technical debt - at least not in a straightforward way. But that applies to all technical debt really. If they say go through various iterations quickly and discard ones which don't work as well and leave quick notes as to how the failed approaches worked or didn't they could generate less debt than an equivalent team of ten. Working fast can lead to underdocumentation certainly.
> It should be illegal to classify fluoroquinolones as antibiotics.

Maybe it should be illegal to be a hyperbolic clueless internet commenter?
Maybe now, but it wasn't when people first decided to do it.

Also, it might not be now. If we are able to reliably extract energy from lava/volcanoes, we would have enough energy to power the whole world cleanly, which could help immensely with our current climate crisis. Space is a huge expense of energy, which also contributes to the climate crisis.

Free/super-cheap global energy sounds like a huge return on investment.
10x+ engineers definitely exist within a given language and tooling stack. If they've got it all roughly memorized from top to bottom -- including all the quirks or pain points to avoid -- the ease of expressing a high-level use case in code like "I want the program to do X" becomes much more rapid. They typically also get it right the first time with very few bugs and cover most of the edge cases.

I have yet to meet anyone who is 10x+ across environments and tooling setups. It'd be like expecting a master mechanic from Ford who can do an engine rebuild in half a day to step into a Subaru shop and do the same thing. Highly unlikely. Probably still very competent, but not working at that 10x factor.

The thing is most programmers these days don't get the time to go deep into a given tooling stack. Or they do and once they've begun to achieve mastery the old stack is no longer popular or what the boss wants, or it's on to a new contract with different requirements that prescribe new tools, etc.
I can relate to that, because it's something that's bothered me about most texts. The preliminary chapter in the Gardner ed. addresses this to an extent, I believe.

On the topic of infinitesmals, Gardner addresses their existence/utility as historically controversial. By providing both sides of the argument I was more able to understand how both parties were correct, and it has given me better insight as to why and when small numbers are ghosts and when they corporealise.
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This is something that came up very often in the discussion on Twitter, too, and I think while there are these kinds of persons, there are also others that are more productive and are able to keep technical dept at a minimum.

I think one can only determine the productivity of an individual by looking at their performance over multiple years on the same piece of software. Otherwise it’s hard to distinguish engineers that are truly productive from others that are only fast at coding.
One reason to deny the existence of 10x developers is that some organizations intentionally handicap their developers such that processes prevent anybody from being productive. This can occur when the organization, or the developers compromising it, do not trust the developers. It is hard to trust anything when a body of developers is functionally illiterate in their primary programming language or when the primary development goal is always achievement of easy.
Those two comments perfectly describe the issue IMO. That also means that activating good developers to be 10x people means they need to be given leverage and freedom to automate, innovate and be creative. And maybe also ownership of the product they create - e.g. shares or simply a special kind of recognition.

I also see the problem with 10x developers - they are by definition irreplaceable which is impossible to manage properly. But for startups which have a small head-count, this may be needed.
First sentence of the article "Con Ed has yet to figure out..." should be the headline, but I'm sure the more dramatic version got more clicks.
3 users has a surprisingly decent return too. Test something for crying out loud, a minimal investment provides a great deal of insight.
>and often even identical but in a far less controlled form

I dunno, I'd trust something used for centuries (given it doesn't kill its users) over something hastily discovered, sorta understood, and rushed to market (after being extracted and distilled in the most potent chemical form) for profit...

At least traditional remedies/drugs don't have the "let's rush this to make a buck" nor the profit motive involved (well, people selling them today want to make a profit, but I'm talking about actual traditional drugs, used for millennia, and which anybody could e.g. just grow/distill/whatever in their country, so there was no exclusivity thing)...
Could I please have three hundred thousand dollars?
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This is perfectly apropos!
Can you get "poor man's typed holes" in F# by using inserting unit where you would normally insert a hole and get an error message like "Couldn't match type () with type Foo"?
ubiome is a ycombinator company.

Why would you call them a fraud. I've done a number of tests over a period after antiobiotics and I definately saw the change into diversity correlate with the foods I introduced.
Antibiotic resistant is a huge problem that is only going to keep growing. Unfortunately very few new drugs are in the pipeline because they aren't particularly profitable to develop.
I'd argue that usability also must include accessibility and I highly doubt that in your 15 user sample set you will cover the deaf, the (color) blind, the dyslexic, the paralyzed, the epileptic and various other groups of people with special accessibility requirements.
The only logistics are for initial supply and replacement. The battery swap points would be what we call gas stations. The batteries would clearly be designed to slide in and out in some motorised manner with a lift, And have positive latch connects.

Contrast the costs of battery swap with retrofitting power reticulation to large developments, upscaling the distribution network, fitting individual charge points, and swap has good economics.

I agree it's unlikely. I just think it makes more sense.
I haven't been in a company which has done that, but, I could see it happening, and yeah, that would be pretty bad.

I think that is a company culture thing, and not a hackathon thing though.

I don't even expect to see much of a correlation between company culture like that and hackathons. Or even in which direction the correlation would be if there was one.

But, I'm in New Zealand, and we have a different culture. So, it could be just that.
> Losing them would be really bad for Microsoft, ...

It would be, but they won't lose them.

Those folks aren't going to just all of a sudden stop using or recommending or integrating/deploying Microsoft products. With regard to licenses for development / test / demo machines and such, the 180-day evals (which can be "renewed" for 30 months, IIRC) aren't going away and will work just fine for them in the majority of these cases. Besides, the dev shops and integration businesses aren't who Microsoft is targeting right now -- they provide value to Microsoft and will continue to do so.

There's a lot of "partners" that are only partners because of the money they save in licensing costs. Why would Microsoft really care if they remain partners or cost? Their value to Microsoft is very little (and probably a net negative in many cases) so why not force them to pay "full price" for their licenses too? Microsoft has been effectively giving them away like candy for years and years and now that's going to change. They may have backtracked, for now, but I fully expect them to continue limiting, restricting, or totally phasing out internal use rights -- except, perhaps, for the higher/highest partner levels. To Microsoft, the smaller "partners" just aren't worth dealing with at this point and this is an easy way to get rid of many of them without simply "kicking them out" of the partner program.

I've thought about this a lot deeper than I care to write about here at the moment but I think their long-term goal here is to continue to push as much as they can into Azure for that sweet, sweet (monthly recurring) "subscription" revenue (plus licensing!) month after month. For anything else -- whatever they can't push into Azure (where they can track it much better) -- they're gonna make sure that everything is fully licensed and that they're extracting every penny that they can. They simply don't need the majority of the partners in order to do this.

Microsoft, of course, is after the large enterprise customers -- the ones they can extract the most revenue from. (By the way, they can already work directly with Microsoft Professional Services and "skip over" the partners.) Once Microsoft has gotten them to move everything into Azure, Microsoft will be able to work with them more directly and provide more services to them that would traditionally be provided by partners.

(In the interest of full disclosure, I should perhaps mention that I once owned a company that was a Microsoft partner. That's been so long ago that it really isn't even relevant to the discussion, though. More recently, I worked for another such "partner" -- in name only.)