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Hi all

I currently run a remote job board called Remote Circle.

Until now, we've had a single email go out every week which we call the "bulletin". Everybody got the same email, no customisation whatsoever. Pretty rubbish.

Custom job alerts has been on our roadmap for a while but we've taken our time on getting it built because it seemed like such a big task and we wanted to focus on other areas, like getting more jobs. Other remote job boards offered more personalised job alerts, but in our eyes they still weren't personal enough. Being able to get job alerts by job category still isn't enough when looking at remote jobs. We wanted our alerts to be as flexible as our site. It's this level of customisation that our users have come to love us for and we wanted that to be replicated in our job alerts. So our job alerts are actually just as customisable as search on Remote Circle is. As always, we will only send you jobs from companies that are hiring in your Timezone. On top of that, you can also specify:

Which job category you would like to see jobs from

What type of jobs you want (permanent, contract or part-time)

️ ️ Which keywords you want the jobs to include e.g. "javascript" or "translation"

And even what company you would like to receive jobs from. For example, you might only want jobs from Buffer and nobody else

And of course you can decide to receive these alerts in your inbox every week or every weekday(we don't bother you on weekends).

It's super easy to add your job alert too. Just search for jobs on Remote Circle as you normally would and then hit the Create alert button, the alert will be created for your current search parameters. Choose your email frequency(week/weekday) and your done.

And that's it!

We hope this will make it even easier to find remote jobs so that you don't need to keep coming back to Remote Circle to check for updates. Instead, you get the alert and can be first to apply.

If you have any feedback, please just let me know.

Thanks!
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But if you include indian scooters, why not include pedelecs, or hover boards? And going the other way electric buses, and electric trains? Its useful to know the total number of electric people movers, its also useful to know how many electric cars there are. There is no moral component to that.
The whole XP (eXtreme Programming) movement came out of the Consulting domain. "jasim" in this thread explains the context where it makes sense. The company i had worked for had jumped on the XP bandwagon when it came out (we even had Kent Beck, originator of XP himself come out and do presentations!) but i never saw anything unique about it. It was merely a systematic way of working much more closely with the Client and doing rapid implementation iterations towards the known requirements which all experienced Engineers/Managers/Companies were already doing. Except it wasn't a dogma with them but adaptation of a sane process to a context. I always thought of XP and its successors as marketing by successful Consultants rather than any true insight.

You might want to take a look at the original short book "Extreme Programming Explained" by Kent Beck and form your own opinions.
Seconding burntsushi. I learnt the basic Rust idioms by doing the advent of code last year and comparing my solution to his.
$125 for being okay with making my retirement more insecure/unprobable than it already was. Awesome!
I think it's completely right.

I virtually completely stopped using Lyft//Uber since they increased prices in SF. I know a lot of other people that stop using them also. Most rides are above 15$ which is above what I'm ready to pay to get somewhere in the city.
I walk, use my bike or drive whenever possible. The new price point simply doesn't make sense anymore.

And in most places, customers are way more price sensitive than I am.
Here's a PDF signing example: https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/wiki/Signing
But Uber's business model doesn't have lock-in potential. So if a price change happens, people (drivers and customers) will just switch to a different app.
If they hired just ten people to do 15 minute manual reviews for >100k channels, that's 250 reviews a weekday and more than enough to take care of all the biggest problems affecting them.

It gets actually pathetic when it comes to channels with a million subs. Sure, some of them don't make a ton of money, but there's only a few thousand total. One small team could do so much. If a channel makes $20k a year, with a significant fraction going to youtube, why can't it get $50 of someone's time?
No idea why you've been modded down. Yeah, ARM arch is not that RISC anymore, there are a tons of instructions. Some pretty specific like that one. I don't see much of point of polarizing CISC vs RISC anymore in the first place. Both are borrowing from each other and gradually blending together.
I definitely see your side of the argument and I am sympathetic to the idea that (most of) the complexity of Kubernetes is inherent to the problem domain. That said, lots of devs do get by with knowledge of only the barest essentials of Linux.
> You literally can't store enough energy in batteries to power the network

You need that only when renewable production goes to zero, that happens pretty much never. Your PV production goes to 0 at night but demand is lower at this time.

So yes, it is completely feasible to do battery load averaging if you do the math correctly
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Well, the doctors you asked had a vested interest, they are unlikely to say “we are mostly useless”, so I can just as easily discard that. See how easy it is to maintain one’s belief without evidence?

There is actually a lot of evidence saying anything up to about 40 days on water is fine for a healthy person, although beyond 50 days there is rapid and irreversible damage.

There are whole populations who used to live on 800kcal/days for years.

And for the record, my family doctor’s reply was “just make sure you start eating if you feel any ill effects, don’t go more than a month” - when I came to see him after about a week inquiring if my loss of appetite was something I should be worried about (because thinking and looking at food made me NOT want it, but I was feeling perfect - even better than perfect).

From your response you are likely uninterested, but reading the work of Valter Longo on fasting would probably enrich you.

Also, there’s a huge difference between reducing intake (to e.g. 900 of 500 kcal) which leaves most people hungry and irritated, and going down to essentially zero, which - past the 50 hour mark or so - does not. The doctors you consulted likely have no experience at all with the latter regime in which the body functions completely differently, and which seems like a natural “can’t find food right now” mode.
I find it amazing that the president is so powerful that he can move tech companies all over America (the world probably) just by issuing a morning tweet.
Agreed. Repaired my screen, battery and cleaned my camera. Never used a case (but had to replace my screen after dropping it on tile/concrete a few times...really the only deadly materials to it). Had a screen protector but honestly all the drops happen on the corners so the protector is really just an overpriced sticker for me. Hoping future Librem 5/Pinephones can replicate the experience.
They had greater cranial capacity than us, but so do elephants and whales. And the animal with the greatest brain-to-body-size ratio is tree shrew, suggesting that size doesn't really matter when it comes to intelligence.
Don't know about the foundation itself, it was founded almost half a century after his death (1999 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston_A._Price_Foundation). But his research itself is highly cited.

As for "weak science" the book itself "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" is cited by 585 sources on Google Scholar, for example: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1184515186752252859...

It squares with the parent article that's posted, that diet affects jaw and dental development.

It's well documented that diet and nutrition drastically affect health, and plenty of other sources besides Weston Price's book attest to that:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14972061

The interesting thing about Price's book, is that he spent time traveling to every continent and met with aboriginal tribes and met with the modern (book was written in the 30's) tribes there. He took photos of their teeth. Keep in mind, this book was written in a time before television, before dental hygiene products were readily available in many countries, etc. The interesting thing about the book is the photo evidence itself. Maori, Chumu, Samoans, Melanesians, Gaelics, Aborigines, Inuit and many others are covered.
Sure, but "My supervisor treats the bottom line as more important than anything else" is universally understood to mean that the supervisor is an asshole. If a supervisor treated the bottom line as more important than anything else, and treated employees well in order to boost the bottom line, the employees wouldn't say that "my supervisor treats the bottom line as more important than anything else".
Domino's and Little Caesars are the second and third largest pizza chains in the US. Some of them may have space for a few people to eat there, but their entire business structure is based on delivering pizzas. Sure, they have pick-up options as well, but I wouldn't say that changes them from being developed around the idea of delivering the pizzas.
It's still a lock in the sense that it momentarily prevents another process from using a resource.
According to the Daily Mail article linked above, they've known since mid-July. They could have issued a statement today if they wanted to. I can understand why they didn't do it earlier, to minimize the number of press cycles with their name attached to this incident.

But if this were my credit card company, I would be pretty irked to be finding out about it weeks after the company knew, from the news.
> Oh and lithium ion batteries lose half their charge every 10 years or less.

Most Teslas sold today will still be driving with their original batteries and well over 60-70% of their capacity well beyond ten years. Tesla warranty actually covers them up to 8 years up to 70%. Meaning they are fully confident they can promise that and keep their money in the bank.

> even the most optimistic battery price no one has ever managed to achieve as scale of $100 USD per kWh

Cost keeps dropping: https://about.bnef.com/blog/behind-scenes-take-lithium-ion-b.... Ten years is a lot of time and Tesla just announced the desire/goal to increase production capacity to about 1 Twh/year (i.e. about a 35x change relative to production today). Whatever the cost is going to be in ten years, it's going to be nowhere near what it is today. Well below 100$/kwh in ten years certainly.

> Yesterdays demand for SA was [0] 218,247,760 kWh.

You seem to assume a complete lack of wind and solar on a day (unlikely) is going to require 100% battery reserve. That scenario is very unlikely. It might happen locally a couple of times per year but you could simply import power for regions elsewhere in Australia via a cable. Or you could install some over capacity solar to ensure that even at reduced efficiency you still get some power and use the surplus that you end up having for other purposes (clean water, producing hydrogen, etc.).

In any case, nobody is talking about rolling out that much battery. So we're talking way less battery that will cost less than you assume and lasts much longer than you assume and that will allow for the retirement of some very expensive aging coal/gas plants (which you should factor into your numbers).
Depends how hard the problem is you are working on? I could totally imagine solving easy to medium problems in that environment. For hard problems I’d probably leave the room and think alone till I have something worthy of discussion
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This is a legitimate concern.

How do law enforcement agencies intercept communications that use 5G E2E encryption?
Hi, Thanks for taking the time to respond. I'm Simon, the founder. Your comments are so encouraging for a young startup trying to change the web. Much appreciated.

- odometer: should have been moving! That was a bug. But that is exactly the vision - data updating live in blog posts. Many places don't allow it too (iframe/websockets etc)
- It takes about 40 seconds: User uptake of our charts is way more than we architected for. Working on it...
- modify a link: Only support delete and create right now. Feature request log.
- Panning: On a mac, two fingers get your everywhere. Ctrl-Drag gets you around on a mac much more easily. But it's a hard problem in general
> Iran helped Hezbollah bomb US citizens - hundreds died. First the US Embassy in Lebanon and then the US Marines Barracks who were on a UN mission to protect Christians during the Lebanon Civil War. Iran also sponsored and trained extremists in Iraq responsible for killing and maiming thousands of U.S. soldiers.

I really wanted to come back to this. Why is it that when we murder people in the middle-east, we are soldiers and citizens, but when middle-easterners kill us, they are terrorists?

When Palestinians defend their homes, they are terrorists, when Israelis kill Palestinians, they are the chosen people doing god's will. Don't you see some discord there?

As an American, I'm baffled by our support of Israel and criticism of Palestine. If the tables were turned, would Americans be terrorists for defending our homes, and for killing those who kill us in order to take our property?

Why is this any different? Why do we give them a free pass to destroy a nation, systematically remove them from their homes, take their passports (Palestinians must become Jordanian citizens in order to leave Occupied Palestine)?

If I make a fake book that claims to be 3,001 years, is it cool for me to go to Jerusalem and start claiming buildings as mine?
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> This model works pretty well overall since harmful extensions never take long before getting flagged by the community.

No, this model works pretty well for stealthy extensions which take malicious actions without getting detected.
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As much as I love what Tesla is doing there, I'd like to point out that they are not the only or even the biggest player ine the field:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_storage_power_station#...

There are other tech than lithium ion (namely, Sodium-sulphur) that seem more appropriate for applications where weight is not an issue.
This is a discussion i often have with my friends. I am someone who is willing to spend the extra money in order to get somewhere quicker or with more ease while some are willing to take the extra time and save the 20 or 30 dollars. Interesting look at this.
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It's rather unfortunate for those who travel as well. Most mid-tier or high-end smartphones on the market today seem to work fine for LTE and voice calls on nearly every major carrier worldwide.
Everything is hard if someone is interrupting me too much.

Edit: why is the trust so one way? I’m just expected to trust them, but I have to earn theirs like some kind of untrustworthy child?
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What is the problem with the examples?
Airbnb is massively failing travellers with disabilities
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My friend who Israel murdered for the crime of speaking out against genocide and oppression. Man. It's been 16 years since her skull was smashed to death by zionist murderers. She was 23 years old and doing the right thing.
I'm another person who has done a fair amount of XP. Definitely some people feel this way. Some people do not. Personally, I really enjoyed it. I enjoy working with people. I enjoy shared experiences. I found the atmosphere to be challenging yet friendly. Quite often solo programming can be lonely. Sometimes you wonder what people think of your code. Sometimes you hear all too well what people think of your code -- three days after you could have done something about it ;-). In the pure XP teams I was on, I had a lot less conflict overall -- mainly because you are kind of forced to deal with conflict up front.

However, we had a few guys on our team that really didn't like it. They left and I don't think less of them in any way. It's a different way to do things.

As for the "repetitive work" aspect: the most successful XP project I did was a collaborative sketching application using pen input with automatic shape recognition: somewhere around 2000 (when did MS put out those pen based computers??? -- We did it for their unveiling).
I'm not sure that "colonial governor suggested it" is the same as "Britain tried"...
I understand the rationale, the problem is that I don't want to pay for video hosting indefinitely, unless it's a service that's included in a package for something else I'm paying for.

So if the solution is Vimeo versus not hosting video at all, I might go for the later. Therefore free to host services like YouTube win.
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Acutally, On 26 January 2019, a group of federal and state leaders as well as industry representatives, environmentalists, and scientists made an agreement to close all 84 coal plants in the country by 2038.

It is especially Solar and Wind that are on the rise in Germany

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany
Neither of those animals has the appropriate morphology to build tools or use complex language. How do we know they aren't actually smarter than us?
That might happen long term but short term the lack of production capacity is the problem. And right now a lot of companies are investing in vastly expanding production capacity for lithium ion batteries. We've simply never needed batteries at this scale before EVs started happening.

Tesla seems early in the grid storage market. Probably some companies are trying to come up with cheaper ways to do that. So, long term, I think cost will go down by quite a bit. Ten years from now, there will probably be a few companies cranking out cheap batteries for grid and domestic use that are optimized for $/kwh instead of kg/kwh.
> Well, with compiled languages and multiple servers it does get a bit more complex.

Compiling (and basically anything) can be done as a cgi script (https://github.com/RhysU/c99sh), I bet you could go a long way with that on a network drive or with an rsync daemon.
This is a bidding market, it's just the granularity of the demand blocks in that market that's changing. It already uses 5 minute dispatch, but the settlement is on 30 minutes.
SSL certificate automation is the hardest part of any stack.
To me back in those days:

Java applet loading felt like 30 seconds of staring at a gray reactangle while your entire browser ui locks up, sometimes ending in "applet uninited"

Flash game loading was just a few seconds of a black rectangle, browser ui did not lock up, then custom loader, and it usually worked.
Contracts in programming language have a very precise meaning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_contract
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It is different. The lock prefix in x86 is only relevant in a multiprocessing (i.e. parallel) environment. But the general concept of locking is applicable to concurrent environments as well. For example when there are multiple processes on a uniprocessor machine, you still need to use locks (mutexes) which are implemented using, say, cmpxchg8b (atomically compare and exchange eight bytes), but in the absence of a second processor there's no need to use the lock prefix. Here on a machine level there's never really on any locking, but on an application level you are using locks.
> it's possible to give useful estimates

I think an engineer needs freedom to be able to exercise judgement say "I don't understand this task well enough to estimate it yet."

Why? Speaking from personal experience, when I was a recent grad and got asked for an estimate, said "I don't know" and then got pressed for one, my thought process was "okay... I guess I'll just come up with a number and double it" because thats the advice I'd been given multiple times. This resulted in an estimate that had no relationship with reality and which I knew had no relationship with reality. This was not helpful for communication because...well because it was a lie. Thats the key: unless you give someone the freedom to say "I cannot yet give you an estimate", you can't know if the estimate you get is a lie.

Establishing this freedom is hard:

* One reason that it can be hard to give estimates of simple tasks like adding a new form element/adding a new field in an endpoint/adding a new column on a table is if you don't yet know your tools well. But it can be rather embarrassing to admit this. So the engineer can be reluctant to exercise the backbone to claim this freedom.

* There is a lot of moralizing around estimates. The article On Being a Senior Engineer[1] says "Avoiding responsibility for estimates is another way of saying, 'I’m not ready to be relied upon for building critical pieces of infrastructure.'" so admitting that you don't yet know how to estimate might be admitting that you should be fired.

* This is hopefully an uncommon case, but an engineer might have been unwittingly hired as a senior engineer right out of university because their recruiter told the business he'd known the engineer for years. This exacerbates the previous point.

* A business stakeholder really wants to have an estimate, even if the reality of the world is that engineer can't give them one.

* There aren't any resources for new engineers to learn task-estimation[2]. So if one of your engineers doesn't know how to estimate tasks, you might worry that they'll never learn how, since coaching that engineer to learn estimation is too time-intensive an option for most companies.

* When an engineer is asked "how long will this take?", it isn't obvious from that question that the estimation process requires first identifying the key pieces of the task and the riskiest pieces of this. That relies on knowledge of how to produce estimates: understanding that they key piece of estimation is not the number you get at the end but is the mile-markers you produce along the way.

All of these difficulties hurt the key thing required for a good conversation around estimates: trust. Trust that the person hearing the estimate knows that there is uncertainty. Trust that the engineer will flag up if they run into a pile of complexity.

[1] https://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/10/25/on-being-a-senior-eng...

[2] Demystifying the Black Art by Steve McConnell is about project estimation, which assumes you can already estimate individual tasks.
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Spot on!

>The idea that programmers are not good with people is, in my observation, a self-perpetuating stereotype

It was never true. It is a TV/movie stereotype just like the term "Hacker".