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You can create most of this for yourself at a modest cost in Mexico City, in fact, it's what I did for the last 2 years. For the cost of my mortgage in suburban Atlanta, I rented a very large luxury condo in the heart of the hottest urban neighborhood, including service suite. Earthquake proof building, with just a few very rich neighbors (including a novella actor and expensive airbnb). 24/7 security and valet.

For about $600/month, I hired a live-in cook/head of household named Maria. She handled all the shopping and cooking, including fresh fruit every morning when I woke up, and a large mid-day meal. She made my bed every morning once I was up, and reminded me to do things that needed to be done by me.

Maria was only about 6 years older than me, but fit easily into a mom role. A mom that was never judgmental, and always sweet and accommodating. A true friend, who I could pour my heart out to if necessary. In the evenings, she played guitar and sang, which made it easy to forgive her for listening to the same pop female playlist on youtube almost every day.

For another few hundred per month, I got Denise, who would come in 3 days a week to handle all the laundry and cleaning, and help with meals and shopping. I tasked Maria with managing Denise so I didn't have to, including making her schedule and making sure she was doing what she needed to do.

During those 2 glorious years, during which I worked from home, from the time I woke up in the morning to the time I went to bed at night, I didn't have to do anything at all at home other than work or have fun. My meals were provided. My bed was made. My house was always spotless and sparkling. The fruit in the morning was always fresh, and the food in the afternoon was always delicious.

I'm constantly surprised that more people in my kind of position don't relocate to Mexico.

After a couple years I got fed up with the pollution and decided to do the digital nomad thing for awhile, which is why I've been in Europe all summer and headed to Bali and China in the fall.
This is probably meant for interfacing directly with flash ICs, which have no real abstraction.
> pandas is inconsistent and verbose. Isn't SQL a better alternative?

Wait, there's a thing that's more inconsistent and verbose than SQL?
I think this was the mechanism:

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/neurology_neurosurgery/cente...

They guide the wire by giving you a kind of "live" x-ray.
The other piece to this is in matters of the heart and pride - the intent behind it and the way it is done, oftentimes matters more than the outcome.

If someone goes about it the right way, the wrong decision in hindsight will feel right at the moment in time. Human matters oftentimes require a delicate touch, something that not many of us deeply involved in software pay attention to :)

This applies in dealing with others but perhaps even more so in dealing with yourself. If you don't tie your self worth to the work that you do, when the tides of time make your work irrelevant, it won't be so painful.
Perhaps, but I can't recall a product launch that wasn't available in us-east-1 from day 1.
Also, this China-related front page link was flagged for no reason that I can discern:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20845735

EDIT: Aaaand now this link has been flagged. Anyone able to offer an explanation?
The jerks with power who appear bad at their job are actually good at their real job and that's politicking. They're only bad at their nominal job, whatever it may be, which doesn't matter by definition since they are successful enough to have power.
Then do that, with actual targeted investigations. This is just harassment and a fishing expedition.
A question: are those criteria part of a definition or hints?

Possesion of certain amounts of illegal drugs hints that someone's a dealer, but it's not the definition. Selling is.

The real definition of employee seems more related to a higher dependence on the employer.

Looking closer at the points you quote gives a different vision. As an example: owning of tools and materials is actually a burden for the worker. A car, including maintenance, is a significant financial investment. Forcing workers to provide them doesn't make them less dependent on the company, on the contrary.

Similar objections can be put on the rest of criteria. With realization of profit I agree, but are you sure that works well everywhere and for everybody? I suspect that's not the case outside rich areas.
I’be noticed similar. I have some brilliant friends who don’t bother with FANG because the interview process is a pain. They are highly compensated at their startups, though, and have good reputations from their open source work anyway.
Why not Chicken Scheme? It compiles down to C.
Please read the article, which discusses a California Supreme Court ruling on this very topic. Right now, you got like a paragraph in and went to commenting. That's not helpful.
Symlinks work in MacOS too. They're only creatable from the command line (by default) but they work just like they do in Linux.
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"Because the jerks who aren’t good at they’re job are fired long ago"

In many organisations, usually larger ones, they're usually the first to get promoted as they spend all of their time "managing up".
Because the outages there don’t make the HN frontpage.
You can buy a Ritz condo in LA for $1.2 million and pay about $2000/month for HOA. Or lease it for $5500-6500/month. If you bought a bunch of condos, could likely reduce the HOA fees.

Comes with an amazing free breakfast and a target on your back for confidence artists.
I think the part about financial incentives to work longer shifts is a low hanging fruit. This should not be allowed. It basically forces an employee like relationship for an individual to make a practical living (if even). If this were not allowed, uber would be forced to pay higher wages across the board.
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Perhaps it varies by network, mine have seemed instant for years (with O2 then Tesco Mobile).
Thank you, that was very informative. I do remember that Python had the ast module for a rules engine implementation, but I felt it was too cumbersome..

Thank you.
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~$200 for gas (~1,700 miles) + car rental > $118 Amtrak

Plus (for me) 24 hours driving is time lost where I cannot work. I was able to work quite effectively on the train.
My favorite thing about Clojure:

You compose libraries, instead of totally buy into framework A or B. Some people prefer the opposite.

However, Composition works in Clojure because everyone is using the staples: functions, maps and seqs. Pretty much everything in the language can work as one (or all!) of them.

While I also like static types, this is my argument for a well designed dynanic language like Clojure or its Lisp relatives: stuff just snaps together like magic lego bricks.
I think this is an important point: they tend to go together because, imho, they are necessary qualities for someone who will "get the job done" (as opposed to someone who will get stuck with no iption to dig themselves out).
I agree this should be read as “the vast majority of the time”, but if one wants to be precise, it is unavoidable to deviate from everyday definitions (is 99% the vast majority of the time, or does that need to be 99,9%, 99,99%,…?)

“probability one” is misleading, too, as laymen would assume the reverse cannot happen.

The interpretation of “almost always” as ”p = 1 despite the existence of possible outcomes that defy it” likely is based on http://mathworld.wolfram.com/AlmostEverywhere.html (which has “almost surely” as the mathematical expression, but I would immediately read “almost always” with the same meaning)
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I came to cite the same part of the article, but for the reason that it makes no sense, after the word "because".

It's legal to search people because they have a right to decline? I think the author meant it's legal to request a search. Of course, it's legal for anyone to _request_ anything. Small change in wording but I'd say it matters.
I dont understand why Google can't do what Apple did. And they did it like 10 years ago.
The article has a lot of good advice. However, hiring doesn't end with the offer letter. There's also on-boarding which is largely left to the manager and varies considerably. Perhaps the writer could do a sequel on on-boarding.
Yeah... So, where's the "wisdom"? And what's the take-away?
Does anyone have any good intro posts to redux? Something like the above parent that’s easy to read trough casually for an engineer who won’t be using redux in the workplace
If you live in the Bay Area, you can already afford to live in a hotel in a lot of places. $2,500 to $3,000 a month (price of a studio) = $83 to $100 a night (median hotel price in the US is $133). Considering hotels give discounts for longer stays, this should be more than enough.
GraalVM CE is licensed under GPLv2 what’s not to trust ?
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My partner and I have went on several trips where we spent a good chunk of time in the hotel room. For those skeptical, I recommend trying it before knocking it too hard.

We decided to try it when we realized that whenever we traveled, we’d sometimes stay in a hotel that offered so much but we’d completely ignore all of that in order to be outside in the city. We thought it would be interesting to take a trip where we planned nothing and didn’t even particularly care about the destination except the hotel. It turned out to be incredibly relaxing. It’s not really a replacement for a normal trip, but a new variation that I totally recommend on occasion.

It’s actually great for working some too, which obviously goes against the norm for vacations.
Sometimes when I deal with people I think are less intelligent than myself I wonder what it would be like to be in that rare stratosphere of intelligence never running into someone who you thought wasnt an idiot.

Then I wonder if I would become a jerk simply due to fatigue.

Good thing I dont have to worry about it too much :)
Well that’s probably not possible because each gig market is different.

Healthcare is the biggest item but seems unlikely to budge. Payments for, say, a driver vs. a dog walker are going to vary significantly due to different scheduling expectations, different time values, etc.

It’s not clear what is meant by making it possible for these companies to continue either, as most of these companies are not currently running a profitable business.
Usually the school has a budget for this. Manufacturers donate hardware as well. I think our DARPA grand challenge team had a Toyota tundra (or similar) donated to them.
Thank you but as you say, encoding is limiting.
SMT are a progress versus SAT.
But I believe I would need an SMT that take a graph and rules as input and verify if the graph or parts of the graph satisfy the rules/constraints.
And output me the indexes of the satisfied parts of the graph.
I believe such a thing does not yet exist.
SMTP is a better example than NNTP because it is so much more mainstream.

SMTP had a spam crisis. Early on providers were loathe to filter at the server. They didn't want the responsibility. Then there was the "love letter" virus that brought the net to its knees. Filtering became a requirement for survival but e-mail deliverability became a problem, first with AOL as a big provider, later with gmail, etc.

SMTP is nominally open but if gmail wants to trash the mail you send you may be helpless.

Any new protocol has to face spam not only as an annoyance but also a dos threat. Look at how unusable the web has becomes with multiple pop-up windows, sites that say mobile is the future but God forbid you try to close the ads on your tablet, 50mbps downloads to see 5000 bytes of text, ...
Today I learned that $650k may be considered limited funding by someone in the same universe.
You might be interested in checking yourself and a bed into a storage facility. It fits your requirements perfectly.
'draw_down you are hellbanned. To see this, just open this page in an "incognito" tab. In reviewing your comment history, I can't see anything to justify a hellban...
you're kinda both right. in the specific context of governance, it means what you said with no particular negative connotation. in more general use, it is often used to mean a transition to some more degenerate state. you can see this in the more commonly used "devolve".

as an aside, it's interesting to note that a similar thing happens with the word "degenerate". usually it means inferior, primitive, etc., but in mathematics it has no such connotation (eg, a degenerate triangle where the vertices are collinear).
The parent is replying directly to the article title. It is in no way a straw man argument.
You sir, have brought up a decent point. Not an example I’m overly familiar with, but I’ve seen it in action.

EDIT: took a moment to look into AAA, they advertise themselves as a federation of regional clubs and their customers are less customers and more members. This may not be an Apples to Apples comparison, but lacking sufficient information and experience, I defer to people with more knowledge in this case.
That's a good name if you're a techie, but you know it'll be "PowerLookup Live" by the time the marketing people are through with it.
I don't know if raft "rocked" paxos's boat or not. It's a social phenomenon where Stanford people and their associates evangelize raft not because it is superior but just because it came from Stanford. People think raft is easier to implement but from my studies of available implementations the truth is it's actually just more likely that someone will Dunning-Krueger their way into believing they can implement it. There are a large number of defective raft implementations in the wild. There are almost no paxos implementations, correct or otherwise, making it harder to reason about its popularity and ergonomics. One thing is for sure: if you think you do not quite understand paxos then it is quite likely that you also do not understand raft, even though raft makes you feel like you might.
This ultimately impacts code quality negatively. Macros aren't a tool "for the 31337 ninjas", not more than class inheritance or generic types, or hell, even procedures. Macros solve a particular class of problems - they eliminate bloat and boilerplate, allowing you to express your code closer to the way you think about it.

Much like classes can be used as data transfer objects or to build out a large inheritance tree, macros can be used tactically - to DRY up things you otherwise couldn't, or introduce some readability improvement - or strategically, to lift the code up another layer of abstraction, or create DSLs that let you write your code much closer to the problem domain. Because Lisp supports them in an ergonomic way, macros are not seen as something special, but just another tool in the toolbox.
An occasional outage is sometimes good for an app (depending, of course, on how mission-critical it is):

1. People don't realize how much they love and depend on you until you're gone.

2. Keeps you on your toes, it's easy to get complacent when everything just runs along happily for months and years on end.

I do wish there was a way to train users that millions of them reloading constantly as service ramps back up doesn't accelerate the ramp-up time, though. ;)
The git protocol is the standard; feel free to build different tooling on it. https://hg-git.github.io/
>> I’ve been hearing and reading the phrase “be yourself” for what seems like decades, but only in the past few days have I mustered the courage to really question what that might mean. My default assumption was that it’s not possible to be anyone but myself: whoever I am being, that’s who I am.

Always had trouble with this myself. This section made me think of Alan Watts and his "How to be a genuine fake" talk[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0q5pXis4a8
Yeah, our preferences for what an Amtrak priced fare should provide are likely just different. I won’t ride Amtrak at all unless it’s business or first class, and typically I just buy far in advance or simply don’t travel if these fares are too high. The price for coach tickets is ludicrous to me when accounting for the crowdedness / mad dash to get seats.

The last time I rode coach on NE regional lines, my girlfriend & I arrived over an hour early for the train & we had to stand up and hold our suitcases for the first 90 minutes of the ride because there were simply no seats. We walked back to front every coach car and every seat was taken and all of the luggage racks were filled. I get frazzled by hectic transportation experiences so it was especially nasty for me.

For a $70-80 fare, I expect easy access to a comfortable seat, ample space for 1-2 bags / suitcases directly at my seat area, and easy ability for multiple people in the same party to get seats directly next to each other.

I hate that Amtrak locks these (basic) amenities behind business & first class fares, and essentially acts like a slumlord towards their coach class service.
You might like a cruise.
For us this is exactly the correct approach. We could have spent millions of dollars and thousands of man hours hardening things to be resilient to single region outages. But for what? We aren't GE or Google. If our conference line goes down for 2-3 hours per year because we don't have apocalypse-proof infrastructure, literally nothing bad happens to our business. In this exact outage we are discussing, all of my coworkers are at home having breakfast with their families and doing various weekend activities. No one but me will know there was even a problem until I log into the AWS console and find the alerts. Worst case, I have to reboot or restore a few affected instances on Tuesday morning.

It seems like a lot of businesses are chasing this ideal of perfect and end up much worse off than if they had just stuck whatever application on a single server in a semi-reliable part of the world.
Is this what's really bothering you? Personally I'd prioritize helping drivers over punishing tech bros. Limiting the app's share isn't a price control, and the most direct way to prevent all the value accruing to a handful of people.

> Maybe we could start with not making developers millionaires in their 20s and hiring 1k+ sales people for a company that makes a smartphone app.
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I do have a thing for trains, but 39 hours in a coach seat sounds pretty rough regardless of the scenery. I can see why there would be a downward pressure on price for such a journey.
A compact and reliable 470 uF capacitor could cost comparable to to a low-end uC.
There is no proven method for sorting a pile of candidates such that the absolute best engineers will float to the top

[for the sake of argument] -- yes, there is a method, if you want to find out the top few best engineers. Look at their experience. Jeff Dean, Linus, John Carmak. I think my algorithm fulfills the letter of your search criteria by finding a few 10X engineers in an ocean of regular people.

Unfortunately, the 10X (or arguably, 100X in this case) engineers may not be enough or not be interested in the job opening you have.
I agree with you. What makes me lean towards my solution is that I can pass the plate to the WordPress documentation if anyone else want to know what the code is doing and we can follow the trail of callbacks and hooks while that request check can be (and in this case, is) sprinkled all over the codebase.

What I noticed is that people following the first method ends up hacking core functionalities of WP because "it just works" but in the end that makes the code unstable and harder to maintain because it relies on undocumented stuff and a coding style that is very personal. It can also messes big time with stable things expected from the CMS (mangled taxonomies, hijacked hooks in the core instead of the WP pile that make it hard to debug or to play nice with other plugins/themes).
Check out Carp: https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp
It's not the cost of maintaining that matters most, it's the cost of recovery when it fails. I'd rather pay a 3rd party for storage. Just not Dropbox.

Edit: and yes, i have 24/7 machines.
^^ This.

Also, your real job is making your manager look good to his manager, not actually the nominal job of writing reliable, stable, flexible code that you signed up for in your employment agreement.
US-East-1 was the first, IIRC. Lots of early adopters have grown significantly but have various hardcoded assumptions about running there.
My Simple white plastic card became discolored very quickly. It'll depend enormously on the material (a new leather wallet is gonna bleed dye) and it's partially because the white card shows more than a darker color.
some might argue the proper comparison is to the severity and scale of the offense itself.
Signed up for alpha. Definitely sparked my curiosity regarding the type of client needs you encounter for things like form builders.

We are currently working on our own visual app builder, starting out with Vue/Vuetify. Demo:

https://youtu.be/6ywDYebcxdo

https://youtu.be/jdb0j_vN9RM
Sure, not putting people in position of power into prison when they break the law is a huge problem of our society.

At the same time I can respect the good things a person achieved in his life and look down on the bad things that he did (and shouldn't have been tolerated).

I view the author's view too simplistic: ,,What if “brilliant jerks” are just plain jerks?''
The headline is misleading about the article, which never seriously questions the brilliance of the jerks in question.
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Justice systems only work when only a very small minority of the population is unruly.

That is not Hong Kong in a nutshell at the moment.
Syncthing can work. You don't get the centralized server though. Well you can run it on an always on system. I'd like this to be a VPS, but the files sit on the VPS in clear text. I like syncthing as it syncs file mode bits as well.

Resilio Sync is decentralized as well. And lets you setup encrypted folders, so only peers with the password can decrypt them, but other peers can take part in the syncing. So I can run an instance on a VPS and not worry too much if it gets compromised. I find its Linux support lacking and wasn't as reliable as Syncthing for me. I'm going to try it again sometime.

Seafile. Centralized server, can do encrypted folders. I'm going to look at this one again, but found the sync took a real long time, and I don't think it synced file mode bits.

Nextcloud. Centralized server. Can do encrypted folders. Seemed OK, but didn't do mode bits.

Currently I'm using Syncthing, where my central always on machine is my home server which would be running anyways. I like the idea of having a 'central' server in the cloud, but need that to be secured in a way that Syncthing can't do. So I'm not sure its my permanent solution yet.

I also use Unison for much larger folders, like my code directories.
A big pro of using phone #s is that it allows users to effectively take their social network with them from app to app instead of being locked in.

IMO phone numbers are a pretty terrible system (you would never ask people to remember dozens of IP addresses for all the websites they want to visit but historically people have been expected to remember phone #s for all the people they want to contact), but they are the system we have and it could be worse.
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