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Preventing calling the devs requires dev to front-load ops. Ops needs triage documents, remediation strategies, architectural and workflow diagrams, dependency charts, distributed tracing, intelligent logging, custom application metrics, and tests they can run during incidents to isolate causes.

The devs can do all of this on their own, teach ops how to use it, and then they'd only be called when it was a code issue. But as a dev, you probably don't know all of the above, so ops has to go to dev and be like, "hey y'all, if you don't want to be called, this is what we need."

And this is what DevOps is intended to fix: get everyone in a room, talk about problems, find solutions among everyone. If your org isn't doing this, you can start the change.
Yeap. I'm in my 30s and I've seen enough writing on the wall to know that there is no way in hell I should be relying on being a software developer to feed me in my 50s or beyond. We can talk about how it shouldn't happen or it's illegal for it to happen all we want - but clearly it happens.
Its only recently that we started to frown upon genocide. The atrocities committed in the Middle Ages aren't fresh enough. Mind you, its not "just the numbers". Here's a US example [1]. Or think about stories in the bible about the ill.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials
NO, but at least the older candidate can get their proverbial foot in the door before being screened out. Of course, the CV/resume is likely long enough to infer age within a decade or so. It's a hard problem to solve.
When I saw that google, amazon, apple and Microsoft weren’t bothering with EV certs, I figured I didn’t need to either.
For someone who played muds less for the grind and more for the discovery aspect, I could see this being an entertaining experience.

I really enjoyed reading the article, btw. The writing was great, almost as winding and random and dreamlike as the subject matter.
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I worked in a grocery store for 5 years in the produce department and we sold a loooot of unpackaged food to customers that came to us in a lot of packaging. From stabilizers to keep produce from jostling and bruising - all the way to the shrinkwrap the pallets came in with...

I dumped a lot of plastic into the trash compactor. I dumped a ton of styrofoam into the trash compactor.

Sure, it might show a desire to the producers of food if we shop better - but I doubt your food is as plastic-free as you imagine. And I tossed more plastic daily than the average household did in months.

The supply chain needs to be plastic free before we stop having a problem.
Your fear is well-founded in this field, sadly.
One thing I don't like, which was present in this article, is throwing up our hands and saying "but there's nothing we can do". Of course there is. Nobody says that about racial discrimination.

You think people aren't racially discriminating when they hire people!? Seems to me they absolutely are, which is why I don't think "we can do" much about age discrimination either.
Yeah, that does sound plausible.
In my experience age discrimination is real. All large companies explicitly discriminate against young employees because US law does not prevent it (50+ becomes the protected class).

Most young corporate employees are promoted on a schedule. The inputs to that algorithm are age and performance.

Large companies explicitly discriminate against young employees by paying them less and refusing to promote them without considering their age.
Sorry if what I'm about to say is rude, please file that under me being ignorant rather malicious.

Given your struggles to get a job and your very valuable experience, what's holding you back from going as a contractor / setting up your own shop?
Cooler terrorist plot, bigger action scenes, and more variety in the setting: plane, airport, snowy fields, etc.
You're right in that a working EV system can indeed protect people. However, as this article suggests, even a basic check can be very hard for CAs to implement. If you can't even do a spell check on the state or country name, can you be trusted to verify the identity of those who rely on you to meticulously verify a company?

There's also the point https://stripe.ian.sh/ made: it's not just about registering the same name in a different state. People don't know in what state your (parent company) headquarters are so they would need to dig deep into the organisational structure to find out if the EV cert they're presented with isn't from a company with the same name in another state. Want to add more years of registration? Just buy an old, probably no longer used letterbox company and change the legal name. Whois info can be set to anything you want for most domain registrars as well. People will still need to find out if all the data matches.

There's also this demonstration of how EV can actually be used to help phishing by using the "green address bar" and the hilariously stupid Apple address bar design: https://www.typewritten.net/writer/ev-phishing/

I believe there is value in EV certificates if you can rely on the identity verification that they come with. Sadly, most providers of EV certificates seem to view them as a way to make more money, not as a tool to bring trust to the web.

An EV-like system will probably be reinvented in the future, giving us a fresh start on identify verification on the web without the crappy practises and standards that plague the EV system today.

Lastly, for such a system to work, all (big) companies need EV certificates. Even before browsers started cutting back on EV UI, nobody knew what site does or doesn't have EV. Some subdomains used different certificates, some didn't have certificates at all. How do you know if a (sub)domain is supposed to have an EV certificate? Will you tell people to just not log into Facebook anymore because they don't have an EV at their login page?

EV doesn't work because it's the wrong way around. For security indicators to work, you need to warn for danger instead of turning off the "everything is okay" light. The OV/EV system has been designed around the latter idea and as long as EV/OV isn't freely available all over the world, nobody's going to mark DV certificates as "insecure".
> improve the UX related to certs

They’re actively making them worse, actually. I can’t even view the details of the certificate chain in Chrome on iOS. I used to be able to save them from the browser on a computer, and now I can’t do that, either.
Self-Hosting Your Own Cloud – Part 4: Movies and Music Using Emby
Richard Stallman Defends Epstein: Victims Were ‘Entirely Willing’
3 is my favorite. The addition of Sam Jackson and NYC is just great. I honestly don’t even think about anything beyond the original trilogy.
Vim for Ruby and Rails in 2019
Are you by any chance from Poland?

It's so frustrating that many people here work themselves to death, using up rest of their time for the time-sinks called children.

After that they have no time left for participating in the civil society, contribute to open source or otherwise make impact in their community.
Because I imagine someone who would expose their mongodb instance to the web would also just terminate HTTPS at the CDN, rendering curryfinger/cloudflare.py useless.
The problem aren't old people, it's people who sit in their cushy employment for ages, don't want to learn something new and try to do things the way they know.

Those can be young too, but I guess since time is a factor here, the older people are the higher the chances they got >5 years of business as usual in their pockets.

I personally prefer diverse ages in my teams, but I also met some awesome devs who learned their skills with analog computers, haha
Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis
We all know it's like having 2 jobs. But having kids is a choice. Don't do it if you can't pay for it or you have to keep leaning on colleagues to cover for you.

As for the prospects of other people's kids paying for my retirement, that seems very low probability given the projections for the future of social security. When planning for retirement you should assume you receive zero from social security.
Yes, I don't use desktop linux. When I spoke about dell/lenovo I only have experience with Windows. If I ever did buy a deskop linux machine I'd buy one of the preinstalled ones to ensure I wouldn't have to fight the tiny issues with multi-screen DPI, various sleep states etc. Those things are hard enough for manufacturers to get right in windows and Mac OS it seems.
That's a really obscure example. I have a lot of family around me and we have many weddings. Most of the time the venue is the caterer since that is what they charge for the venue.(500-900 people weddings, over 10 a year). Not always though.

BUT STILL, weddings are a really bad example here.

The people getting married get to chose from whom they want the table and chair covers, flowers, singer/band, catering, belly dancers/entertainment, lights people, AV people.

Those are choices you got to make and the bills will obviously come separate since there is clear distinction of entities. Heck, the venue and the singers might not even of said a word to each other, let alone have a billing agreement.
Yeah, but have you noticed over the last few years it's getting better and better (i.e. less and less nonsense).

This is the beginning of machine reasoning and procedural storytelling
> a family photo frame with the SQL Server 2000 logo molded into it.

I just... how could this be real?
> "A full feature search engine that you can converse with"

Except I can't, because the site is just harvesting emails for their beta waiting list.
Same here. It has everything and more character than any other RTS ever made. The damn menu music puts me into Warcraft Meditation Mode. When playing on a CRT monitor the particle effect are "lickable". Major sense of accomplishment playing hard in single player too.
I think rather than the world flipping, what happened is the absolute value of the age difference between you and the hiring manager was large, small, large. They prefer like kind.
It feels more like a chat or than dungeon crawling.

I feel like one would get better results by procedurally generating the world then using words just to describe it. Although I'm sure something like that must exist already.
The point isn't "always do multiplication" but to do what makes logical sense. Don't pick your operators for performance, pick them for readability. The compiler will handle the performance aspect for you.
I think the rejection might actually be good for you - they certainly were looking for a young, naive, and enthusiastic person - to exploit to death their desire to work in game industry, and pay them peanuts.
The first? Plan 9 (9front to be specific) had support for it for a few weeks now.
It's funny that this has even a name and is so wide-spread. One can also apply this principle to talking and I used to work with people that were obsessed with this style. I totally agree with you that there are pitfalls and probably one could even add more to the list.

Probably there is a good reason why people usually talk the way they do: build up a context, make the listener (or reader) familiar with what is going on and why we are talking about this. And then explain what we are actually talking about.

This inverted pyramid talking style is so artificial and makes me question whether the advocates of it are just using it as an excuse to not read or listen to anything. It makes people indeed just hurry through communication.
Someone should put this in Dwarf Fortress, or even better, in Minecraft. Imagine Minecraft generating proper dungeons for you to explore. I don't know about game design to know how to do this or what's wrong with this idea.
There is only 600 km between the two cities (I'm french distance between SF and LA was unknown to me before :) ), a normal train (200 km/h, with TGV it would be 2h and some) would take a bit much than 3 hours; with google map I only see fields, desert and mountains for nearly 550 km, why sleep in a bus ?
> Wait, are there people who really think chroot offers security?

The real answer is that this is a bad question. chroot disables some attack vectors. For example a path traversal vulnerability in a reverse http proxy is almost entirely mitigated by putting the proxy in a chroot. There may be extra details like access to cache or configuration, but chroot largely prevents harm from that issue. It does little against people with local access. So basically - it's more nuanced. "X offers security" is a trap.
I believed this, too. But it’s apparently not true...

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17067350
CC3: The Russian Front was amazing! It feels kind of like it fits into a separate genre of “digital tabletop war games” (due to the fact that you pick your units from a large roster using points, rather than build them in-game, and had a focus on campaigns where the balance of power swung back and forth).

The demo of the British one (CC2 maybe?) was the one that got me into it.

I think they were remade by another company a few years back actually - but I’d definitely throw money at a modernized take on a similar concept.

Does anyone know other similar games?
It's hard to tell if there is a clear distinction between social/"fun" and food rewards.

Experiments have shown an "anti-freeloading" effect in most species, except cats: Within reason, a reward for work is preferable over the same reward for no work.

I also don't think cats care specifically whether or not their fun and playing leads to food or not. It just happens that their idea of fun would lead to discovering and killing small animals in a natural setting. Maybe they hunt because it's fun, not just because they are hungry.
This is the same in Sweden fwiw. I was agast when CVs started passing my desk with seemly random self-portraits on them.

Why the hell do I care what you look like?
It doesn't have to be a government list. Any recognized (vague measurement I know) will do.
But you need to be registered in a country.individuals cannot take one.
>Working hard is a shared value across all religious and ethnic backgrounds.

You'd be surprised.

And let's not even go into the ancient Greeks, and Romans, where "working hard" was for the lesser classes (not necessarily slaves), and it was not considered a great virtue. As Nietchze noted, nobility and honor were attached solely to "otium and bellum" (leisure and war).
Warcraft 3 Remastered is coming quite soon, supporting all old custom games! :)
You might be right about there being more cars in the rural areas.

In cities, it's no contest, there are hordes of scooters and only some cars. And 99% of the scooters were electric, in my experience.
In the footsteps of country star Charley Pride (2016)
Startup idea: Remotely activated tickling devices.
Tooth and Tail was pretty good, and it's only playable with a controller. I also played the hell out of Battlezone 64 back in the day, which is a FPS/strategy game.

It's a doable thing, people just haven't tried (aside from the above) very hard.
Google respects robots.txt files from webmasters who don't want Google to scrape their content
That is the route I am now going. Until my last breath I'm going to build a sw company and hire 100's of people. Like all companies I'll have a page on my site that says how moral and inclusive we are except that we won't be hypocrites like most (all?) other sw companies. This is my delusional dream.
Thinkpads do not have this crapware installed and can run Linux exceptionally well. You should look into one, because they're the best engineering laptop on the market.

Thinkpads have excellent keyboards, are user serviceable, support SIM cards, have tons of ports, are rugged yet lightweight. The manuals have hardware break downs to help you reinstall battery, RAM, drives, modems, etc.

The machines last forever. I have a few that are over a decade old and are still a joy to write software on.

Thinkpads are truly at another level.
> if you can't express yourself clearly or understand native speakers without them having to make allowances, then I don't think you should get credit for being smart

Why? Engineers have to "make allowances" for understanding what managers or people from other departments say all the time, even when it's said in perfectly-articulate, perfectly-accented English. I can't remember the last time I heard someone outside a technical department use "speed",
"bandwidth" and "latency" correctly. And yet I've continued to write correct specifications and improve products -- even when that required entire meetings to get people on the same page, as opposed to a simple question to get me over the language barrier. Shall we stop giving credit for being smart to designers, marketing specialists and product managers, too?

> This isn't me stereotyping, either

Yes it is. Difficult communication is a major problem in our industry and it's an unfortunate reality even in teams where everyone is a native speaker of the same language. It's far less difficult for a designer or a product manager to learn correct usage of technical terms in their native language than it is for someone to learn a whole new language -- but you wouldn't tell a manager that the fact that they can't be bothered to learn what a few words mean is "at best a nuisance and at worst detrimental to productivity and working relationships", would you?
Cotton requires a lot of water and pesticides that hemp doesn’t
I'm sure the rats would have preferred to do this without implanted electrodes...
What is the one thing you've read that changed the course of your life?
That may be true. I don’t have enough in this game to follow the literature. I’m responding to the above post and here with anecdotal experience.

What it suggestsed to me is we need to talk about social skills necessary to navigate roles and relationships between young managers and older workers.

When dealing with junior and inexperienced colleagues, the power relationship seems more ‘natural’. People can reference many years of clear social hierarchies—parent-child, teacher-student, adult-child.

Where is the template for the reverse relationship? Younger, and socially/life inexperienced managers, with ‘junior’ workers who are older by years, and maybe socially very experienced.

Let’s face it, no manager wants to hire someone who threatens their position. And I’ve see the workers who feel a new older worker also threatens their growth trajectory in the company—as if you’re jumping the line.

In my experience some of these problems change dynamic when you work for small businesses, and flatter organizations.
So truck drivers don't overnight at UK supermarkets? What do they do when they can't park at a truck stop and they're out of legal driving hours for the day?

I'm driving a semi truck. I'm parked in a Kroger parking lot in Fort Worth TX (in an out of the way corner), having slept here overnight. Kroger is unusual, I mostly use Walmart when I can't find "legitimate" parking, because the lots are generally bigger, near interstates, and easier to navigate a truck and 53 foot trailer through.

I tried a nearby truck stop first, but there were no spaces.

Two nights before I slept on an interstate on ramp on Alabama. There were ten to fifteen other trucks on that same ramp, and when I left the next morning most of the subsequent ramps were full of trucks.

Which is to say, I'm a frequent Walmart parker, by necessity.

I've never seen a specific time limit at a Walmart lot. Sometimes I see no truck parking signs at Walmart, or no overnight signs (and sometimes i park there anyway, especially if there are other trucks there).

I have seen time limit signs at some rest areas, for six or eight hours. Yet truckers are required to stop for at least ten hours between working days. I ignore those signs.

And by the way, depending on the part of the country, those rest area off and on ramps are usually also packed with trucks.

I've only been told to move once, waking me from sleep, when I accidentally parked in a paid reserved space at a truck stop. (Yep, they have those, more and more.)
I can't help but compare RTS to TBS more: Civ 2 came around the same time as SC, and the Civ series has kept growing in popularity. People are ok with the long feedback loop IMO ie. chess. The gameplay just needs to be fun and challenging-enough, which SC/BW and AOE2 had in spades for both beginners and experts. Like the OP says though, subsequent games in the original RTS mold just weren't as good.

Certainly F2P, and genre-mixing happened, but those players could still come back to playing RTSs. My main point is: what truly distinguishes Brood War from everything else is the level design and gameplay. Which is what games like They Are Billions is bringing back even if only in part. RTS level design peaked with BW it seems, and is only now making a come back. Over the past ~20 years, you can see the evolution in action/RPG/platform/sim/puzzle/TBS games as they have added to level design and gameplay where RTS games didn't and thus lost out. Focusing on what made BW good; make better level design and gameplay than BW, and you'll get people playing again.

I played Warcraft 2, SMACX, AOE2, and SC pretty much when they came out, and I've only recently played Paradox games, Homeworld and Total Annihilation. People have their favorites, and I can see liking any of these games based on the type of gameplay and story you enjoy the most. I just hope AOE4 has enough new ideas in level design and gameplay compared to AOE2 like the difference between Civ 2 and Civ 4.

You can also see what the major studios have been up to: Valve went into publishing tech, Blizzard is going more and more into F2P (Tencent is almost all F2P), but it's the studios/publishers like Square Enix, 2K, Sony, and Ubisoft and indies which keep making games that aren't lootbox filled.
It would seem that one could develop validation standards for certs that check for data entry errors (and missing data) and apply them at CAs so they can't issue them, and optionally at clients so they can't even accept them
Yes! Also blatant discrimination in the other direction. Older folks can also have energy, eagerness, and an openness to learn new things.
>Religion tends to incorporate ideology, not just produce it.

This. Religion is basically a convenient vehicle for "lifestyle", "ethics" and "ideology", encoded in stories, symbols, and imperatives.

(Which is also why modern "atheist" phenomena like soviet communism or Californian ideology are themselves religious in nature).
Ancillary expenses make college hard to attend, but that's not because the school is ripping you off, it's because life is expensive. The absolute cheapest housing in Cambridge, MA is in the middle of downtown on Harvard's campus.
I would expand on that and say 'concise code executed by directly invoking the parser in a shell-like environment using special flags such as a,n,p and e.'
The capitol corridor goes to Sacramento and not LA. The Amtrak from SF (well Oakland) to LA leaves at 9am and arrives at 9pm. The one coming back leaves at 10am and arrives at 10pm. Hardly convenient timing and 4 hours slower than the bus (and that's without even counting the BART time to get into SF itself).
See the recent "FAT: A Documentary" (Amazon Prime has it) or the book "The Big Fat Surprise" by Nina Teicholz for many more details. I found these entertaining and compelling.

> The Frantz children always felt fortunate that their father brought his work home, his beliefs about the dangers of saturated fat shaping what the family ate. “Other kids would have ice cream; we had ice milk,” recalled Ivan Frantz. Bob said they were “reared on margarine,” foreswearing butter’s saturated fat.

I think this is key. This debate isn't about corporate shills, but honest disagreement between sincere, hard working scientists. It shows how hard nutrition science in particular can be.
This thread is about paying for books and clothes when tuition and room and board are covered by grants.