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> Lack of technology isn't the issue, it's human nature that's the problem.

That's exactly my point: We already have all the technology we need, our problems now are all psychological and spiritual.

Bucky thought that it would be enough to put the technology before the people in what he called "Design Science Revolution", but as you point out it hasn't worked so far... People don't even notice.
> Everything from networking to graphics to midi

Wow, I had to look it up: (midi) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MIDIAccess Chrome and Opera only it seems. So no excuse for Firefox having a complex codebase!

But yes, browsers are operating systems in every sense except that they target another operating system and not bare metal.
Much depends on your threat model. Telegram is plenty good for keeping your conversations out of the hands of Facebook and Google, and the user experience with synching messages/drafts between devices and editing/deleting of messages blows the doors off Signal, iMessage, and the like. And for all the whinging about Telegram's security model, there's yet to be a documented hack of the server.
Yes, Martians would find US better place for women. Those girls won't be thrown to prison for refusing to dance.

Meanwhile, even as driving ban was removed, female activists who pushed for it were targeted by goverment and imprisoned.
From what I remember, the crowdsource app is exactly what is used for community sources.
Mostly Java, but I went from a small healthcare-based company to a huge entertainment company - there's really no similarity there.
The strangeness of Silicon Valley right now is that if you're lucky you can "retire" long before 40. I'm 31 and have through a bit of luck accrued a small 7-figure net worth. I don't plan on being a "rank and file" employee by 33, let alone 40.
No, they just don't want to leak the message contents to your notification screen.
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I like DokuWiki. I use it for personal projects but I couldn't picture it being used as an enterprise tool.
Is age discrimination a thing in hiring because:

A: old developers cost too much?

B: young developers are insecure or incompatible with old people?

C: old developers only work in old technology?

D: other?
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I think that's great to realize! Management is really a career change, not a promotion. Too many managers aren't good at it but stick with it because they like the status.

I think you'll also find hiring managers receptive to that if you pitch it right. I know I'd be happy to hire somebody in that situation as long as they were really excited to get back to building things. The easiest people to manage are the ones who appreciate what good managers do and work with that, which should come naturally for you now.
Agreed those of us over 40 lived in a time where there was no such thing as a "web developer" only some of us jumped over to doing "web development" so the actual pool of people available to do the job, that have the skills from Gen-X is insanely small compared to the overall demand the industry has generated for developers.

Almost all of the developers I knew from my younger days have either, gotten rich, gotten out (one bought a worm farm), or went into some form of management. All due to their own decisions no one was forcing them out of development, rather development has a way of chewing people up to the point where they want to be spit out. It is the reason that Office Space was such a resounding hit with us Gen-X'ers it struck at the heart of what it can be like to work in IT.
Violent Revolution, by definition, is going to fall somewhere on the terrible scale.
^ This became apparent as I looked at older "role model" employees in big orgs when i was still very junior when I'd wash up there after startups crap out
Alex from SE here. I wanted to transcribe Worm a few years ago too. IIRC the problem was that PG-AU had a post-1923 edition transcribed. The 1922 first edition is extremely rare. The Newberry Research Library in Chicago has a copy and I actually flipped through it once. But you can't check out those kinds of rare books. They can scan books for you but at a fairly steep cost and I didn't want to do that at the time.

Maybe the situation has changed since then! But I'd love to have that book in our catalog.
Similar experience here, perhaps. Wife and I run and our training involves running in the morning before work. I've done a couple runs, up to ten miles, before breakfast and not eaten afterwards until lunch (typically 1100-1200.) I was surprised that following the runs, I was not starving. It really was no effort to not eat. On the ten mile runs, I put a sports drink in my water bottle which includes carbs as well as electrolytes, so I suppose that's not really fasting. Pre and post run I do drink water and black coffee.

And then there are mornings like today where I ran 10 miles and then had 2 eggs, 2 strips of extra thick bacon, two buckwheat pancakes (with butter and syrup)and a piece of rye toast with marmalade. Definitely not fasting!
> grinding away at a FANG

I've started to propose we s/FANG/Big N/g "FANG" leaves off other obvious big companies, e.g. Uber, and it wouldn't scale to keep trying to add them to the acronym. Here N is used like when one talks about a list "N items long"
It can adjust your bite if worn too many hours in a day. Worth asking dentist, bit prob not serious if worn only during sleep and bite is monitored.
Well, TCP is a hot mess that should and will be phased out in favor of more congestion friendly protocols.
Its highly likely that tourists would congregate around the same attractions when visiting a foreign city. A site like tripadvisor would have enough data to predict with high confidence the itinerary of 1000 random couples who visit a place. I live in a resort city and there is a clear distinction between areas that locals gather and the places tourists frequent.
Well, I've only known it used in the adtech space, but I'll really miss it. It made writing a bidder on the open rtb exchanges a doable things without too much tech.

With exchanges going back to first price, I think the barrier to entry will be a lot higher for new players. It's a sad state of affair that second price auction was ruined by fraudulent clearers, where the second price for your bid was always your bid minus 1 cent...

I attended a conference given by the ex scientific director of Criteo demonstrating that mathematically, if players clear bids honestly, second price auction is the only economically viable choice in the long term. It was quite convincing. But the hypothese didn't hold up I suppose.
> ...senior roles in BIG dev shops are filled by hiring people who know how to operate in a big company, and you don’t have those skills.

I'm not convinced of that. I was recently hired as a senior engineer at a large tech company that has more engineers than the sum total number of employees at every other company I worked at previously. My skills transferred just fine.
TBH i only have statically typed languages in mind (like C++ and Free Pascal), so i'm not sure how it'd work in a dynamically typed language with type annotations, but to refactor i'd just... change the type and then work through the compiler errors to find the places that need their type updated. Some IDEs also provide you with tools to find all those uses and even can do the refactor themselves.

Your refactor will contain more lines of code since it'll need to also contain the updated use sites, but i do not see that as a problem at all - and even if it is one, it is only a short term small problem that is certainly not as important as having the code more obvious and readable in the long term (assuming of course you feel the same about readability as i do - after all as i wrote in my message above it is a subjective issue :-P).
For the most part, definitely. WebStorm is the only one of their IDEs I'd disagree about, particularly if you're writing TypeScript (which you probably should at least be thinking about doing). VSCode and its language server integration are great.
This is a bit verbose https://link.medium.com/WKzY5QxeSW but has good general guidelines. It's easier to proceed gradually rather than going into it cold turkey.
I suspect many historians also believe that people don't pay nearly enough attention to history.
I have a friend who has a Doctorate and teaches some high school teachers, and is a high school teacher/administrator herself, and she always complains about teachers doing things like taking phone calls in the middle of lecture, or just never showing up and complaining to the colleges administration if she gives a poor grade. The older they are the worse they behave, so she says.

Of course, her side job teaching them in the summer probably wouldn't exist if they didn't get pay increases for degrees, so...
That's kind of the inverse of what I'd like to see.

Similar to browser docs what you're often interetested in is the latest things and how far back you can use them, and where they will degrade gracefully further back.

Those mostly assume you have old code that you want to make work on new versions, not that you want to write new code that takes advantage of as much new stuff as possible while still working reasonably well on old versions.

It's understandable that they would prefer that everyone just upgrade faster, so it's probably not something they want to encourage (both in documentation and in making features degrade gracefully if that requires any tradeoffs.).
Sorry. While partially meant as an in-joke for Robert Anton Wilson fans, I'm actually serious: the is no mention of religion or spirituality in the program outlined. To me it seems relevant (or at least interesting) both that this is a purely secular or materialist concept of progress; and that it's hardly "New".
Couple interesting things about the Jetbrains licenses.

- The yearly cost is purely for updates. Meaning you could just pay one time, get updates for a year and then continue using whatever version you have.
- For small teams they offer a 50% discount (less than 10 people, in business less than 5 years)
- If this is perhaps an open source project you can get it for free.

I got sucked into the Jetbrains family because of just how good their PhpStorm is. Especially in regards to refactoring and debugging tools.

I only wish their Javascript tools were anywhere near as good as their Php tools.
Not to mention the great overall quality of life that a regular 9 to 5 job as a software developer provides in the rest of the country outside of SF/NY/SEA/LA/BO.

Be a median software developer, pair up with a spouse making the national full-time median, now you've got a $160,000 household income (which doesn't sound special in SV). Married that's $115k-$125k in take-home pay in most of the country.

$160,000 family income vs a $350,000 house. That's the kind of ratio that tilts life a lot further in your favor in many regards.
It seems to me that older developers tend to fall into two groups. One group goes, “the old ways were better, this new stuff is crap, I can’t believe they make us use it.” The other group goes, “there’s a lot of good stuff in the old ways, here’s how we can use that experience to our advantage now.” The latter has a much better time.
Yes. But being able to grow your own food is what's becoming less likely.
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I was indeed thinking of npm when I wrote that comment but we are starting to see similar problems in some large rust projects. It's simply too easy to add a new dependency.

Anyway, some poster child FOSS projects in C++ take hours to compile due to dependency bloat.
And to be clear, you were a developer and got another development job?
Hi from Grass Valley :)

I've been working remote here for a few years and have had a different experience. Verizon cell phone coverage is fine for me here (tho it was terrible on AT&T). Agree that broadband access can be really spotty, but if you live in town the options are ok. We have 250Mbps at the house, and Comcast says they offer gigabit, but I haven't tried it. Anyway, it's possible things have gotten better, or else it just depends a lot on the available infrastructure where you live/work.
>I think people feel the need to add a scientific explanation to things where in my view the pure observation that it seems to work would be enough already.

Thank you, I could not agree with this more.

Observation is the basis of science and yet many still need to be passively hand fed how to live and need constant validation from a constantly changing dynamic field where "experts" get fame, power, and attention for their true gospel [1]

Even after I graduated with a science degree and went onto healthcare, my mother would still lovingly remind me, "Son, you may have book smarts, but you need more common sense" :-)

[1] http://nautil.us/issue/74/networks/the-flawed-reasoning-behi...
I foresee when more people get AI educated, the nation will be more likely to have free speech and a real legal system, because there will be less people easily get brainwashed that is, so this is good news.
You joke but you would be surprise that there are some developers that once burn out, become Luddites. I know a few, one literally bought a worm farm, one bought farm land and started farming lavender, and the other bought a tackle-shop / dive bar down in the Caribbean.
That is a problem with particular certification exams, not insurmountable at all. E.g. memorizing brain dumps for Microsoft MSCE is one thing, but that trick does not work for the CCIE.
Is most of the PHP ecosystem moving to static typing? Libraries, ORM, etc. When you're dealing with database objects, is everything a string?
This is really awesome and I wasn't aware of it! For a lot of the pulp sci fi stuff on Project Gutenberg, it was just a handful of volunteers doing the copyright research and I think it was a big bottleneck. I remember thinking of getting involved in that research but it was far too complicated and time consuming. Making it machine-readable is a huge step to opening up the public domain!
>6-9 months of living expenses in a traditional savings account for emergencies

Geez seeing comments like this make me wonder if I'll ever be debt free enough to have nearly a year of living expense to fall back on. I've barely got enough in my savings account for 2 months of bills and loan payments.
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I don't think those are cleanly separable. When you talk with people who left the industry, it's very rarely, "I was successful and engaged and really enjoying it, so I decided to switch to something entirely different where I had to start over and earn a lot less."

For a lot of people who experience discrimination, it's not one big blow-up that forces them out. It's the steady drip-drip-drip of being treated poorly, denied opportunities, etc. Eventually they just get worn down.
I don't have a problem with standups. I actually like having ticket tracking systems (how else are you supposed to know what is high priority to work on?). But, open offices are objectively terrible. Research shows it, people here complain about it all the time, and yet companies keep building them.

Where I'm at, the floor is divided in such a way that teams sitting together can sometimes have their own little "bull pen" area that's a little bit separated from other teams (if only by a whiteboard wall). This helps, and I like working in an area with just my team, but I would prefer real walls.
I think it has more to do with that China's strength at the moment is being utilitarian. Their working theory is to increase capacity. That is why they are build a lot of high speed rail, cities and power plants. While in the West we talk about tweaking cars to being self-driving or interest rates in the mortgage market. Because we don't really have that urgency to do things at scale tomorrow.
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That's somewhat disingenuous. People hate Thiel because of his personality and his actions - i.e. what he says and does - not only his politics. Saying somebody is hated because of their politics alone implies that they are simply hated for being an outspoken democrat, republican, libertarian, etc; and that that person has done nothing that would reasonably provoke the reaction they receive.
I think they are referring to autophagy, which is upgregulated during fasting.

Sure autophagy is an important process in cellular "cleansing", if you want to use the pop definition here. But more autophagy != good outcomes, generally speaking. For instance, too much autophagy is associated with reduced cellular division and growth.

It sounds like someone just did a s/cleansing toxins/autophagy/ here to make this sound more science-y.

Note, I am NOT saying that there's no value in fasting. There certainly could be. I'm just saying that the article seems to be playing a bit fast and loose with the science.
I agree, I guess I just meant "enterprise" - the purpose of including FANG was to call out that there's nothing particularly distinguished about working for those companies, the workloads are very similar to ABC enterprise workloads these days.
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Gutenberg does amazing work. Full stop.

With that said, their specialty is in the transcription part. If you try reading one of their public domain works on a Kindle, they're often full of formatting problems and typos, since the transcripts are sometimes sourced from OCR scans. I've known people who tried starting a free book from Gutenberg, but eventually gave up and bought the same e-book off Amazon for a dollar because it at least had a working TOC. That kind of sale saddens me greatly. The end-user thinks, "Ah, it was only a dollar, I got my money's worth," but the publisher has basically paid nothing for the work, adds a few hours of digital typesetting, and then makes 100% profit on the sale.

Standard Ebooks often uses the Gutenberg raw text as a starting point and then cleans it up. We have a set of tools used for the initial cleanup process[0] that handles pagination, TOC generation, and some other basic "modernization" steps. The texts are then proofread and edited to conform to our style guide[1], which aims for maximizing readability on modern e-reader devices, as well as adding semantic meaning to any text markup. You can look at the guide for producing such a book to get a better idea of the process.[2] The end result is a free, public domain work which looks and feels like a professional production.

[0] https://github.com/standardebooks/tools

[1] https://standardebooks.org/contribute/typography

[2] https://standardebooks.org/contribute/producing-an-ebook-ste...
Economists especially.
Yup. And the fact that you don’t need a build system is one of the things that makes JavaScript so great.

Of course, lots of people add build systems to their JS projects, but you don’t NEED one.

I spent the last five years writing a web development toolkit that lets me keep doing JS work without any build step. It’s been a lot of work but it’s so dreamy.

I hardly have to worry about a black box ever. My sites start more or less instantly. If anything is wrong anywhere in the system I just put a breakpoint and trace execution. There are no “artifacts” to puzzle over. It’s the best.

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This comment is nothing but you dogwhistling about your political views. Keep this off HN.
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Maybe fix the issues that cause those crime rates instead of throwing more abilities at already overpowered police departments?
A solid Plan-B is to learn an older tech where people are already retiring out of. Examples would be anything IBM used in the 80's early 90's. C/C++, COBOL, JCL, UNIVERSE, VB6, etc. etc. Young people are not competing for this work and you would be surprised at how much it can float you thru lean times if you need to lean on it.
In my experience, it's anything that's processed enough to be easily digestible. I can have a whole bag of dried fruit with no consequences, but half the amount of something fatty/cheesy will make me want to just take a nap.
Isn't it a bit disconcerting that we're so used to articles telling us what to feel that, when they don't do that, we get confused?

Maybe it's good just to have a reminder that much of our infrastructure is maintained by volunteers. Sometimes important policy decisions get made by whoever showed up and started doing the work in a way that looks competent to others.
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