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* Always be learning and doing. Never be stagnant. Even if you are in a very boring team you can still learn and supplement your skills / knowledge on the side. This may or may not help immediately but definitely helps long term.

* Really practice open/active listening and critical thinking: there are very smart people and it's really good to assume good intent when they talk. Critical thinking and question is more around 'where is the disconnect? How do I try and actively move towards and see their point of view'.

* Questioning authority and being able to say no.

* Don't use code reviews as a debate forum but instead as a learning forum. Granted time is of essence, so a timely resolution may be necessary but learning and actively listening through reviews helps your skills as a coder.

* Cut through heirarchy and organizational politics to achieve the larger goals for the team, the project and ultimately for Google.
And God help them if they somehow have a work/school and personal Microsoft account and don't remember which one they used.
There's definitely a happy medium here which involves all of CDs, streaming and vinyl. I like listening to vinyl records (as I am right now http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/20190908_183833.jpg) but only because it's a lazy Sunday afternoon. There's a joy (really) to the ritual of getting up and changing the record over, and admiring the 12 x 12 inch artwork. But the rest of the week I'm busy and listening to MP3s off a USB stick.
we can't see it. add something to your "about" section which is empty right now
Also for future satellites(or other space tech) if you don't have your own rockets you will have to use US,Russian or other countries tech. so your money would go in foreign pockets instead of your own scientists,engineers and other local workers.
Would we miss the Media Lab if it were gone?
I find the complete 180 to be true. Very easy to get a business into a competitive space, but it’s hard to build a capable team of engineers. If you have both money and a solid idea to generating revenue (business plan) then you have solved both problems easily, relatively speaking. Engineers come together with the universal language.. money. Something startups don’t have.
Go to https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database/ and select only LP/EP and vinyl single. Or just LP/EP.

Including both and just looking without inflation, it’s above 1989 levels and could hit 1988 levels eventually. It’s 5x higher than mid 90s through late 00s. Almost 4x since 2010.

Take out vinyl singles and the increase is absurd. It’s 9x to 40x+ increase from any year between 1991 and 2007. 8x from 2008. Almost 2x from 2013.

And this is all for 2018 figures. 2019 will bump things up even more. Though the pace has slowed a lot.

Even if you add inflation, the resurgence is still there. IE for LP/EP, 2019 will beat out 1989. After a low of nearly 25x less in 93 and 05-06.
There was one of these for sale years ago. You put it in rear window and you could scroll messages along it.
See also: the XY problem [0][1].

[0]: http://xyproblem.info/

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
In my defense of the inaccurate numbers, I calculated it using a rule of thumb I know as a pilot and the numbers are accurate per the rule, and I didn't look at any other tables. To quote myself, "Obviously this rule of thumb gets less accurate at high altitudes, but it’s not supposed to be perfect." In particular, as you go higher, there is less atmosphere pressing down and the decrease gets smaller, so your quoted numbers are likely accurate.

Regarding you spending a night above 26k ft, I guarantee that you were in nearly peak condition, trained for that hike, and spent time at high altitude getting acclimated (or you live at high altitude and were acclimated unconsciously). Even then, most trained hikers at 26k ft can only sustain a walking pace for a length of time. These geese retain enough aerobic power to maintain flight at that altitude. Saying that you were a "bit knackered" the next day is not recognizing how close to the edge your body was- did you measure your oxygen saturation levels and would you care to share them so that everyone can see that you calling yourself a "bit knackered" had you well into the clinical range for hypoxemia, and every doctor in the world would tell you come back down the mountain?

While not everyone will die, the zone above 26k ft is literally called the death zone. The lack of oxygen is like a poison, every body handles a different amount, but 26k ft is certainly high enough to say it "kills humans." People have survived cobra bites as well, but most people agree that cobra venom is lethal.
Maybe the next fundamental step for humanity is detaching rule of law from physical enforcement at a macro level. This has already happened at the individual level. Most people treat their neighbor with respect, not because they fear arrest or a vengeful God, but because we've internalized that we're all better off when we treat each other better.

It's similar to getting off of the gold and silver standard. Money used to mean something because it was backed by a physical good. What we learned is that humans can operate at the macro level based on abstractions instead. Rule of law doesn't have to be backed by physical violence.
> in the UK you must maintain a physical line of sight with the drone at all times, this makes flying winged craft virtually pointless.

Why do you say that? I've flown line-of-sight fixed wing RC airplanes before and it was loads of fun.
We will communicate purely in emojis, obviously. No words necessary. A square of LED hieroglyph expressing annoyance, sorrow, gratitude, yes I want fries with that, etc.

Imagine it. Doesn't it feel totally natural?
The large corporation was Amazon.
Something designed as an unmanned orbiter will have better sensors than a "man in a can" like the Apollo Command Module.
It's a hashcash:

https://wehatecaptchas.com/load.php?name=captcha-worker.js

Proof of work is trivially parallelizable, and 2^(5*4)=1048576 options are super easy to go through for spammers.
Framing this as a partisan issue has the causation reversed. The people funding anti-climate change propaganda are the oil and coal companies. They're only "the right" because the places with oil and coal under them happen to be red states, which allows those companies to control those politicians more easily because they have more constituents who would lose their jobs to meaningful reductions in fossil fuel usage. It only becomes partisan once the representatives of those districts push it into the party platform.

You can't defeat that in the long-term by voting the other party in because the nature of the two party system is that each party is in power half the time. The only way to fix it is to reform the Republican platform so that it's one of the issues both parties agree on rather than every administration just undoing whatever the previous one did.

> Perfect example is when global warming was rebranded to climate change, largely by the Right, after which right-leaning politicians have spent every moment saying "See they had to change it from warming to change! They clearly don't know what they're talking about."

Propaganda is propaganda. When it was called global warming they would claim that some places were getting cooler rather than warmer (due to changes in ocean and wind patterns etc.), which was true but not actually any better. If some places get drier and some places get wetter, well, droughts and floods are both bad. More to the point, the ecosystem in each place is calibrated for the previous climate and rapid changes start causing things to go extinct regardless of the direction of the local changes.

But that takes longer to explain than a talking point about how some places are getting cooler and not warmer or any of the other irrelevant nonsense about how temperatures decline every year during the period between summer and winter. Calling it climate change was an attempt to defend against that nonsense, so naturally the industry now spends all day claiming that rhetorical defeat as a victory because that's what propagandists do.

Pitting both sides against each other is how corporations get what they want. The enemy is Exxon, not the people of the state of Nebraska.
To attempt a generalized version of sibling comment from radford-neal, the energy that goes specifically into changing the position of the payload is the same, but how much of the total energy spent goes into that, depends on the method. For the rocket energy goes into so many things other than lifting the payload: kinetic energy of the exhaust, high temperature, sound, and - most importantly - lifting the fuel itself, quickly.

Or to think another way think of all the challenges with human powered helicopter where the record is reaching 3.3 meters in 64 second flight, whereas any moderately physically fit person can climb the same height on the rope much faster and hang out there indefinitely, because they did not have to lift the weight of the helicopter and send the big masses of swooshing air down from the blades just to combat the force of gravity.
Not doable in the current economic system. Many schools would be more than willing to invest in training, should a very promising although very poor, talented kid knock at their door. But how this kid could have been introduced to classical music or any other activity requiring costly training if his/her family had to struggle every day with temporary underpaid jobs to pay the minimum necessary (clothes/health/food/school etc.)?
Potential talents do exist everywhere; I'm pretty sure there are at least a dozen potential pro golfers among the homeless in any country, but they should have been grown in a moderately rich family that allowed them to start practicing at least until someone discovered them. Our economic system however is designed to make the rich richer at the expense of the poor, so I don't think this is going to change anytime soon.
It really doesn't matter what the questioner wanted. The main utility of sites like Stack Overflow is not to give this one person the answer to their specific problem, but to be a useful landing page to people searching for things related to the question later.

A lot of those people are novices when it comes to regexes, and it's useful to make it clear that there's some things that are better solved with other tools, even if you can abuse extended regexes syntaxes to solve them.
Five Years Ago, Tim Cook Unveiled the Apple Watch
I am still awe at how bad MS is at making Windows apps. To Do is a poster child. I think Visio uses less RAM, is extremely laggy, slow to load, crashes many times a week and has awful layout for pen input.
which is exactly what that so answer was
It's all about the money and is backed by the US government
You don't usually have to tell this to an adult, but: no backsies.

Your can't have your cake and eat it too. You can't sell your company and keep it too. Basic.
Front bumper sticker in reverse font to be read bu rearview mirror:

“Please get out the way/this lane/go faster”
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I was surprised to learn that America makes 805.3 TWh[1] but France only 519.4 TWh[2] of nuclear energy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_the_United_St...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France
That's a single project (though a large one). I'm thinking of lower layers where there are many downstream projects.
Why does it matter at all if they are sold at Walmart? That’s very shallow honestly. Either the vinyl gave you joy or it didn’t. It shouldn’t matter if others have easy access to it.
Hmm, I think you interpreted my comment about "making a small change to shared components" differently than I meant it.

I am guessing that your changes did not change the semantic behavior of other people's code. e.g. you were replacing one hash-map implementation with a more efficient one. That's something where obviously Google's tools do cancel out the inherent inefficiency of large organizations/code bases.

My point was that Google has the level of efficiency of a small organization, despite being a large organization. That the default for big organizations is to "just suck" as you described, makes this remarkable, but I never felt like this resulted in a superhuman level of productivity that you might expect considering how advanced the tools are.
You could argue that the 'Green New Deal' touted by left-leaning members of Congress and some Presidential candidates is an (indirect) policy response vs the right's preferred approach of building more fossil fuel infrastructure.
>There's a pretty famous public sector counter example: the initial ObamaCare website.

It's not a counterexample. Just because this method failed doesn't mean agile would have been better.

And GP wasn't saying that the alternative to agile is better. He was saying that in such environments, the key stakeholders do not agree with agile (regardless of what they claim). Their demands and actions demonstrate this. People will not provide money for funding without guarantees that agile says not to provide.
The question is wrong. UBS does not imply services are provided by the government.
If you were a tiny band why would you release a cassette tape album instead of an MP3 or digital stream?
> The success of food stamps is based on how many people are on the program, not how many people are helped off the program

Has anyone done this analysis?
Crop monocultures and habitat destruction enabled by the use of pesticides are a real issue though, which significantly reduces the resilience of our food supply to future threats.

These are also issues around patented seeds, and soil degredation that organic producers tend to be better at, even if it's not technically what organic means...
You really can't help, it's already gone.

I think socialized healthcare would go a long way. Would allow people to take risks instead of clinging to crappy jobs in order to keep their healthcare. Also a lot of people lose their money to a medical bills. We are ALL going to get sick and die someday and it will be expensive.

A lot of this pain is self-inflected, in my opinion. Consolidation of wealth was another large part of it. These communities were mis-managed into the ground.

Boondoggle public works programs have wasted a huge amount of public money for very little benefit and a gigantic maintenance cost. Why does a town of 2000 people need miles and miles of blacktop that lead nowhere?

The funding for education dropped out. Nobody wants their kids to go to a shitty school. Why does a town of 2000 people need its own school? The quality of education is HORRIBLE and there are tons of little towns scattered around my area, each with their own school. A few small towns banded together and consolidated their school systems, and the results have been AMAZING. 3d printer labs, advanced placement classes, WAY higher pay for teachers, you name it. My town decided to not join in, so we all ended up staying at my tiny school that only offers 3 years of classes and 0 advanced classes.

Additionally, wealth has been drained out of these communities by big box stores, Amazon. But before them, there was Walmart. None of the money that people spent at Walmart went to the local community. It went out of state and out of the hands of locals.

Small town butchered their main streets by putting large roads through them, which caused people to drive through the town instead of hanging out at main Street in spending money. It ruined the charm and made the community not pleasant to live in.

Finally, and this is just my opinion, small towns suck to live in. I moved out as soon as I could and I consider it one of the best decisions I ever made.

There are no well paying jobs for educated workers. Trade jobs are very hard on your body, and often don't pay as well as people think.

There's no culture, nothing to do, nobody ambitious hanging around. It is mostly just the leftovers. This was not true when my parents were growing up, it was actually a brilliant little town with a lot of wealth and a great little community, but it is definitely true now.

Everybody left for the well paying jobs in the city. There's a huge brain drain in small to America.

Check out strongtowns.org if you want a good overview, a lot of the content I have read on that site rings very true.
Jonathan Franzen is not an expert in the possible effects of climate change.

He's an expert at writing novels in which everyone sounds like they have a Creative Writing MFA from Swarthmore.

This is silly.
I second KeePass, but use a special dropbox account to sync. It does use a third party provider, but I hope my specific setup is uncommon/customized enough to defend against drag net attacks. The benefit is being able to access my passwords even after losing access to my current devices.
Many laptops do it too. Lenovo even markets it as a visible (and annoying) power management feature. Most however simply handle the charge cycles behind the scenes, and adjust their definition of "100%" over time, so the user can remain blissfully unaware (and less likely to change the setting).

I don't mind this really. Batteries degrade over time; that's kinda just how they work, and I'd much rather have 100% mean "my device is done charging" and 0% mean "my device can no longer run." The specifics of what voltage or charge level or whatever actually translates to those numbers is not important, and honestly the battery / laptop manufacturer probably knows the right settings for those better than I ever will, so it's fine.
Call me cynical but if they wanted it to be in good hands ... maybe don't take the money and run?

Dude in one way or another cashed out and now wants to have his cake and eat it too.

We get so many "founder sad about how things turned out after it is sold". If the founder hands over the keys IMO to some extent they're "responsible" for what happens next.
Since Europe and the US have committed to total reforestation, it’s only natural to expect Brazil to.... Oh wait a minute

Seriously, everyone up in arms, let’s put together funds and lease those lands to protect them. I’d contribute money myself. Since avoiding the damage is more valuable that their commercial activities we should be able to outbid them... right?

Or are we saying Brazil should bear the costs themselves?
Alongside this is a story celebrating how more people are using 100 - 200 grams of internationally-shipped and hand-delivered plastic on the equivalent of a 256mb usb stick to distribute music instead of the internet.

Most of us can't wait to replace our massive-carbon-sink computer with a new one and put the old one in a cupboard.

Sacrifice was key to beating this and we didn't do it and we might be getting worse.
Well tell that to Skype :)
That's why I posted it - using DNA to prove trespass seems wildly disproportional to the gravity of the offense, while being insufficient to prove participation in any more serious crime.
Epstein wasn't just gossip or a one-off terrible person. He was a network, he provided services, and his clients/friends/co-conspirators were some of the most prominent people in the country. Not because they were popular but because they were powerful.

Corruption at the highest level that goes far and wide. You shouldn't ignore it because it's "just" sex abuse and not anything important. When you shine light on any kind of high level corruption, you get corrupt people out of their positions. The collateral damage is that the other corrupt things they do which might be more "important" and honest people who don't do those sorts of things get promoted into the spots vacated.

Not to mention validating the many victims of similar abuse around the country who are most often the prey of powerful people.

If you don't care and think there are more important things than that... well ok, but I think that not caring about that kind of corruption and ignoring it is a real threat to the stability and longevity of the republic.
Yeah, that’s why he wants to buy it back. They will get their money back.
1. Even if we can't completely prevent it, we can stop it from being much worse.

2. Regardless of the climate changer factor, polluting the air causes cancer, damages ecosystems, harms our food supply, etc.

The mentality of "we can't prevent it, so why bother trying" is like accidentally shooting yourself in the foot, and when finding out it'll have to be amputated, proceeding to shoot your other foot because "what's the point?".
Pourquoi-Pas (1908)
For those interested in a more thoughtful take on this subject, I highly recommend the short book, "Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking"
by David Bayles and Arthur Morey.

Favorite quote, "When rich people get together, they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money."
When LibreOffice can run this, then I know that they have won.
Sort of. I didn’t mention it because level doesn’t really limit your scope. If you have a way to make a big impact nobody is going to tell you to not do it because you’re too junior. It’s just that the higher levels are expected to operate at company-wide scope all the time.

You can hide your level such that other people don’t see it, which is another difference between Google and my current company where people introduce each other by their titles, which makes me want to quit every time. Nobody at Google has ever said “And now I’d like to turn the meeting over to Principal Engineer Jane Doe”. Most people don’t mention it.
I think no-hope talk might have a paradoxical motivating effect and in a way conveys how bad it could be if we get anything south of a median scenario.
McDonalds goy boycotted for selling halal meat. There's also facebook group to boycott any manufacturer who sells halal meat. Me don't understand. It's not away from normal customers, so??
I don't think it's true to say that the rebranding to "climate change" came from the right.

It came from academics who realized that saying "global warming" was confusing to people when the climate swung wildly from unusually hot to unusually cold. It takes some time and a willing listener to explain that "warming" means increased energy in the climate system, and therefore more dramatic swings between hot and cold weather.

Saying "global warming" also does nothing to communicate things like change in precipitation patterns.

Using the phrase "climate change" does a much better job of encompassing these phenomenon.
>> I could see it getting banned here before it even takes off, which is a shame.

Maybe in the UK, but there are some interesting legal debates to be had. This is a freedom of speech issue. This is an electronic bumper sticker, one that can be changed on the fly but still a form of speech.

See Kovacs v. Cooper, 336 U.S. 77 (1949) for the debate re "sound trucks", vehicles with PA systems for making public announcements. They upheld the ban, but it wasn't a simple case. Freedom of speech goes a long way. A silent sign that can only be seen by a handful of cars behind you? Imho the 1949 court would have allowed it.
I gotta think that's the standard operating procedure and part of the deal for getting bought out ($$$) is the founders can't run off and just clone it.
The problem isn't with the surface syntax of HTML. Anything else, like S-expressions or JSON or whatever would have the same problem. The problem is arbitrary nesting of elements. No language with nesting can be parsed with regex (modulo various copouts mentioned elsethread). But such nesting is useful and necessary for a document language like HTML. This goal is important; "we must be able to use awk" isn't.
Unfortunately I don't have a link since I don't remember the name of the device or company, but I read about such a device that was using five lasers to do the tracking etc. The problem with this tech was that it was too accurate and would reproduce every tiny particle of dust in the groove as audible cracks or pops, where the traditional stylus would just have pushed the particle out of its way.
If you are buying Berkshire with as a short term investment and you’re not a market maker, you are an idiot.