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While I share your sentiment I think the article means sthg. Different. What I think it says is: If you have a plan and tell others about it's realization, you are less motivated to actually implement your plan.

Thinking about me it is bexause others start to monitor my doings, causing pressure and somewhat forcing me to work according to others schedules instead of my own. That's what workflife is about, no?
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So, in other words, you do have a problem with open offices.

The fact that everyone has a different idea of what’s acceptable behavior in a group setting is pretty much the whole issue with open offices.
Same for me and all the french/swiss french colleagues around me, I don't think its that special of a skill. I can easily block them talking right through me and they don't interrupt my thought process.

English is a bit harder since I am much better at it and subconsciousness catches up. Never worked in open space in my native language so no clue, probably the hardest.
Even if you're an outlier, the overwhelming evidence suggests that the overall output of an open office is substantially less for virtually everybody. People get sick more frequently, and lots of time is lost in non-work-related conversations. This has been measured, and I don't know that it's really up for debate.
I'm not a fan of open office spaces, but I don't think the article fully captures the problem that the open office space is addressing. Our company has a team dedicated to the design of our office space, and they're trying to balance against multiple stakeholders' needs, from different functions (engineering vs legal), to work environment needs (1:1 vs meeting room vs quiet place), all shoved into a fixed and (relatively) small space. The result is you have to do trade-offs, just like normal engineering problems.

From my understanding, it's easier to scale environments that are open-office. For a startup that's always have to contend with finding space for their ever-growing teams, I can see why executives may reach for an understood solution to that problem, even knowing the downsides.

My guess is there's a necessary iteration to work environments in the future, since I don't think open offices truly optimize for knowledge workers. Presumably knowledge-based companies (e.g., tech) will eventually start thinking about how to optimize their internal efficiency as a lever to growth in addition to their product development.
There was a much less juicy bug in the previous iteration of Chipotle's website. Due to demand, the pickup time would often be several hours away from time of ordering. But there was no server validation of the time being sent. A little manipulation of the dropdown picker, and you could send any time (or indeed, any text at all), and it would be printed on the ticket at the restaurant.

It was so easy that half our office was able to figure out that you can right click the picker, "Inspect", then type in any time you like.
> The ability for an open office to foster pair-programming and intense collaboration was a real benefit, though it certainly doesn't suit everyone.

How much of your day do you spend in intense collaboration?
> Governments lie in much more obvious, and less noble, ways than "imagining a future world and spreading it"...

Perhaps but what I'm attempting to describe is something that all governments necessarily do.

Also I'm not arguing that this is "noble". Whether you think it's "noble" depends on what you think of the government's ends and means.
I more or less agree with your second point. Presently the philosophy of artificial intelligence is kind of like theology, it is molded by how people like to think more so than it is determined by reality. Sales pitches also tend to be molded by how people think. AI has that theological essence that makes people love it even if they don't understand it, and that makes it a lot easier to sell big GPU farms to companies that don't have a legitimate use.
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>It would be doomed to fail. These business models run on VC funny money.

No reason a VC couldn't invest in a co-op. Or if they feel they aren't getting the unicorn returns they want, then instead of a co-op it could be organized as an employee owned and operated entity.

I think that is the future, and the disruption SV needs at this point...stop the madness of centralizing the wealth among founders and investors, and distribute it to the workers.
I don't think it is utterly destructive in the anti-vax movement. Dangerous and stupid, sure, but what if the government was trying to force you to put something else in your body that you thought was not in your best interests or that of your child? Isn't it an absolute good that you're able to speak up and resist?
Also, like it or not, the SAT does predict pretty well how a person would do in a typical college program.

Maybe too many people are going to college! And/or we need other types of post-high school education.
I love the "check if integer addition will overflow" in Python:

def adding_will_overflow(x, y):
return False

I have no idea if it's actually true but I find that funny.
>Damn. It does seem that stupid mistakes took him down.

One possibility on the "cautionary lessons for the rest of us" front is a classic bit of wisdom about asymmetric adversarial situations: the other party only needs to get lucky once. There is a fundamental challenge of scale and time for any entity or individual that tries to run something dealing with persistent antagonists over long time periods, it just plain becomes hard to keep track of it all without further infrastructure systems in place. And its also hard for any single human to stay in the zone persistently, we're not really wired that way, hence the need for non-human support structures.

And that in turn is the same challenge for any business dealing with significant organic growth, criminal or not, it's the classic "that TOTALLY TEMPORARY one-off excel spreadsheet someone made 15 years ago now runs hundreds of millions of dollars" issue. It's hard to know ahead what will be important and sticky or not, even if experience helps. And it's hard to decide how to allocate limited resources too. Infrastructure you build helps you scale properly in the future, but it doesn't do anything for you right now, you might not even know you could need it. And overbuilding upfront might mean there is no tomorrow to worry about anyway.

It's a tough nut, though fortunately it's one area that is probably worse on the black side of things since there is less room for recovery from mistakes. Maybe it's one of the structural forces that can help encourage law abiding behavior, legit companies can mess up badly but still potentially recover if there is enough meat to them, whereas a total opsec break for criminals can mean the end of the enterprise.
You can't patent math, as per patent law. Software is just abstracted math. Therefore, software should not be patentable.
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They seem to be working with me a lot better on iOS 13.1 than they ever have in the past. Might be worth having another try?
It's much easier, since it mostly affects browsers and websites, not ISPs and routers.
Much simpler. For IPv6, every hop in the path between the client and the server has to understand the new protocol. For HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, only the endpoints (the client and the server) have to understand the new protocol. And since they run on top of TCP (HTTP/2) or UDP (HTTP/3), not even the operating system on either endpoint has to understand the new protocol; only the client application (the browser) and the server application (the HTTP server daemon).
Can you elaborate on the nonsensical aspect of it?
I know this is an odd opinion, but I actually like open offices. It's akin to working in a coffee shop or public space.

I listen to music 90%+ time I'm working. I'm either using in-ear or closed-back headphones, so background noise isn't an issue. Having people milling around feels nice to me.
IME split bills are super easy in France/Italy/Switzerland, the waiter brings their EFT machine to the table and tap tap tap all done. An no, you don't tip in Europe, even spare change, but the quality of service is more dependent on labour market conditions and choice of restaurant (i.e. wages are very high in CH and staff are hard to come by).

Bill splitting is a major pain in Australia and I've done the whole yelp outrage thing after rude staff have refused to split the bill (when we said at the beginning!). I much prefer Denmark, where the bill is always split, and you have to take someone's bill to pay for them. See also: a year of living danishly https://www.amazon.co.uk/Year-Living-Danishly-Uncovering-Hap...
I'm in a mixed setup, 3 days in the office plus 2 from home, works fine, as long as they see my commits in Github they have no problem with that, I'm planning to change it to 2 days in the office and 3 from home.
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So this was happening in my office too. Turns out the person didn't know how to do their job and was interfacing w/ someone back home to get the answers if you will.

Basically the overseas contracting house figured it out was profitable to just get someone hired and have a team of people that actually know what they're doing that can provide support working back home. It's a pretty interesting model but sucks if you get stuck w/ someone like this on your team.
>There's a lot to unpack here. "Efficiency" of a hydrocarbon doesn't make sense, unless you talk about a specific application, such as an internal combustion engine, in which case you're comparing 100+ year old technology and chemistry to relatively newer forms that simply haven't had as much light of day becoming more "efficient". Depending on what exact "efficiency" is being measured ("energy density"? Nuclear wins) will open more questions than answers.

It's not that controversial.

The "haven't had as much light of day becoming more "efficient" is not relevant, as the parent means among forms existing today (he said "we know of". Even if there might be a future more efficient, we don't "know of" it yet).

And the measurement is usually EROI, and looks to be as the parent said:

https://ruayres.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/rua-eroi-fig-5.p...

>I don't think those regions are comparatively safe.

I'd say the parent doesn't talk about that safety, it's about in applications, transport, etc. Wars happened before oil too...
Yes, maybe mine aren't the best, but the only way to drown out noise with them is by playing white noise and eventually that gets irritating. I'm also (overly?) concerned with the long term hearing affects of using them.
Please be mindful of the pronouns you use in hypotheticals like these. Your intelligent straightforward manager may not use he/him.
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It's much easier to get the adoption flywheel moving for new application and transport protocols than things farther down in the OSI stack.

To get critical mass for HTTP/3 we'll need large server implementations (eg Cloudflare) and large client implementations (eg Chrome and Firefox) to build support and drive adoption. Which is what is happening!

Contrast this to v6 adoption which requires software support _and_ support from hardware vendors, network operators, etc.
"If you know Dimon’s actual reputation, him getting suckered isn’t surprising. From what I heard back in 2009, Dimon is a mediocrity who essentially got lucky his bank was too slow to get in on the subprime scam in 2006; he then used his bank’s incompetence at getting into the bubble as justification for how prudent he was."

I take issue with this.

Nothing to do with Dimon or the subprime crisis particularly but rather, what I think is an important logical fallacy.

I think (hope) there is a formal name for this - please correct me - but I internally label it the "missed extra point fallacy":

"My team played better but they had a weird, missed extra point and so they lost the game - but they are certainly the better team."

This is wrong thinking, in my opinion.

There was a game. The game had rules. People participated. The team with the highest score when the game ended was, by definition, the better team.

I don't know how much credit one should receive for not being wiped out by the subprime crisis, etc., but however much credit that is, Jamie Dimon should get it.
> Pay is line with the market

Presumably pay should / can be lower in a place where you actually want to work for than in a shitty work environment?

> up to date with technology and great chances for resume building.

What do you mean "up to date with technology"? IMO most "recent" technology is mostly hype and/or vaporware, and as I get more experienced, I see more and more value in old, reliable, well-supported technology. I mean, I'm not dissing on all new tech (Rust?), just saying that just being "new" doesn't make it also "good".
Yes!

I wrote an automation yesterday that simply says

When Connected to Carplay
Media > Pause.

So far, it seems to do the trick. Doesn't require manual intervention.
I've been following the hydrocarbon industry from development stage E&P to vertically integrated supermajors for the best part of two decades. This website is not a source of information that I would use.
Better title:

Adults are bullying children
re-read the parent, this isn’t a hypothetical.
The iPhone Xs was my first ever iPhone. Before that I had been an Android power user for 8 years. I installed my own custom ROMs, xposed framework, rooted, etc.

Although I'm firmly in the iPhone camp for privacy and other reasons now, I miss the automation provided by Tasker and the Android OS.

I used to have many useful location + time based profiles. For instance, I had a profile for if I was at home and it was between 9pm and 7am, Do not disturb mode would be turned on (which still allowed 'emergency' calls) and i would switch to a dimmer screen brightness profile. If I was at work, my media volume would be put to 0, phone would change to vibrate, etc.

The point is, many repetitive tasks were easily automated on Android and it required ZERO interaction from my end. No shortcut button press or anything. Smart phones should make our lives easier.
> these women in her 40s rode the cock carousel far too long

Not cool. Please don't do this on HN.
Oil and Gas companies are going to kill themselves because they made the critical error when they decided they were Oil and Gas companies and not energy companies.

I don't why none of the large Oil and Gas companies aren't leading the way to renewables?

You would think at least one or two of them would strategically realize that as the tech gets better, wind and solar will gradually become the main energy source.

And you can either hold on to your dying market (not dying now, but it will eventually).

NONE of them seem to have any real vision for a post oil and gas world.

My guess is that they are fixed on making sure that solar and wind power stays a small percent of energy consumption rather than being a market leader.

I wouldn't be surprised if in the near future more damming evidence comes out that proves the major oil and gas companies have been trying to fuck the solar and wind industries for decades now.
How do you cram for the SAT?

I've always understood the ACT as more about content and the SAT as more about aptitude, which means studying for the SAT is less useful than studying for the ACT.

You can teach test-taking strategies but those hardly require 2.5 years.

I agree some schools provide a better learning environment than others, and also engage in selective admissions either explicitly or via the socioeconomic status of the students' parents. Both of those could cause standardized test scores to improve but I wouldn't call it cramming.
This sounds like something from the 1800s. At least in the US, "working class" is more or less synonymous with "blue collar". It's hard to define exactly and a lot of people in this category would call themselves middle class instead. But, I've never heard anyone say that a doctor is "working class" because they're not independently wealthy.
> Remote work does not allow developers to collaborate easily

Laughable; phones have worked for decades. Your brain and mouth and ears don’t stop working, do they? Furthermore you are greatly overestimating the proportion of high intensity local collaboration to grunt work. The vast majority of tech jobs could be remote overnight and nothing would even slow down. These jobs are not hard or collaboration intense regardless how cool your employer makes you feel about coming into the office. It’s just hard work like any job, and in person collaboration is a miniscule part of that. In reality people like their offices and that’s 100% fine, just don’t ask me to move to your city so you can feel more comfortable asking me how something is going or what I think about x idea.

I think acceessibility is a broader issue with remote work—remote desktops don’t play well for the blind.
>Wirecutrer review tells me nothing about the actual headphone frequency response -- all the graphs are NC and not FR (freq response). [Or did I miss it?]

No, but did you miss where I wrote: "But what they excel is noise cancelling -- and it's irrelevant if they don't "publish any measurement data" as tons of outlets measure them, and have repeatedly crowned them kinds in the area (with the exception of the latest Sony MX1000M3)."
These kinds of articles surface every couple of months, and when they do I always leave a comment about how much I hate the open office design.

I have trouble focusing with people talking around me (like most people), and I have trouble focusing on coding when I'm listening to music. I don't have an office, so how am I supposed to get stuff done exactly? I could work from my basement office at home, and I do sometimes, but at that point, wouldn't it be better to have just given me a proper office (or at least cubicle) so that I'm actually in the building if people need me?
People who should have reinvented the wheel but didn't end up with legacy code and still maintain mainframes.
> Working in an office is cultural

Culture changes, and there's a such thing as subculture. Many individual companies have created remote-only subcultures, and they'll become more influential over time.

(Wearing suits to the office used to be cultural and "never going to change".)

> we're missing a lot of valuable bandwidth

But you're also missing lots of destructive bandwidth (interruptions, gossip, etc.)

Remote work allows you to create time/space for the good connections without also formalizing the bad ones. Socializing becomes opt-in instead of opt-out.

> We're social creatures and no amount of technology will change that.

People socialize outside of offices all the time. There's nothing stopping remote coworkers from meeting in the same place every day, going out to lunch, etc.

> A good middle ground would be a mix of remote and in-person work.

This is a difficult line to toe. It works better if the company is 100% remote, or if going to the office is opt-in (like a free perk for those who want it).

If you start with onsite-by-default and try to transition to remote, the people who stay onsite become resentful of the remote workers, and everyone assumes the remote workers are lazier, distracted, etc.
Thank you for the comment. Do you have any idea which question you missed?
You can't discount it that easily: they report bursts unobserved by other instruments, which could be a second burst mechanism that hasn't been seen before due to its lower flux.

Also FAST has discovered about 100 new pulsars, in at least one case they detected a pulsar at a position Arecibo had observed three times already and not finding anything.
But that's not what was being automated. The only part being automated what the part that happens AFTER arrival in the designated arrival area. And apparently, that's not being automated (well, partially).

We could go all the way up that chain till we get to the point that anything at all is not automated. But that seems ridiculous.
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This.

What people miss is that the value of education isn't the job you get right after college, it's the job you get 10 to 15 years after college. A good education gives you fundamental knowledge to can leverage your whole life.

Let's check back in with these trade programs in a few years and see how their people are doing then.
Indeed. We do have to solve the issue for everyone though, or we are hosed.
The same way we do so already: using telescopes and particle detectors.
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Software engineering for a large portion of open positions is a trade, it's not computer science. Bootcamps make a lot of sense (when done well). Trying to pass off "web stuff" or "mobile apps" as work that is beneath someone with a "proper engineering education" is extremely elitist and just ridiculous. What the market is showing is that to get a developer who can contribute and make meaningful additions to add value to the company and codebase, a computer science degree is not a requirement. This has always been the case, there have always been people who self studied and got jobs. It largely depends on how motivated you are to pick up new things.

A traditional cs education is still a great thing that holds a lot of value. What you learn there will give you a leg up when trying to learn new things throughout your career and if you just go to a bootcamp, you'll probably want to study a lot of those concepts in your career.

Comp sci grads need to get off their high horse if they believe what you say. You're not special. What you learned can be learned by a lot of people and it is. It's not a wall gardened career of "nerds" who are separate and unique to the rest of the population.

What Make School seems to be offering is a career focused education that is done at a accelerated pace. I'm not saying it competes with a top cs education, but with the many colleges and universities where people don't focus as much and don't have to apply themselves that hard. What I saw (and did) at school was not work that hard and get along just fine with the coursework I was given. Even when I started pushing myself harder, the school work just wasn't that hard. It wasn't until I went to a bootcamp, surrounded by students who were actually really interested in learning and being there, was I pushed as a student.

Sure, there are a lot of bootcamps that do not turn out good students. Many of them have turned into cash grabs and it shows as there students can't get jobs and the schools are going under. But that does not mean all of them are bad and all the schools were useless. There are bootcamp grads at probably every company you can think of, contributing in a broad spectrum of languages across all ranges of products. People who are interested in learning and willing to push themselves will succeed (given circumstances) and bootcamps were just a way to get started.
You know that Do Not disturb and Nightshft can both be scheduled to come on at 8pm without automations? (Not that I'm knocking you, if you just wanted to tinker).