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The demise of program design

The argument is that programmers immediately start coding. I've worked in many shops that developed products. Nobody does that. You can't code what you don't understand. After all, you have to "explain" what you want to the computer which is MUCH harder than explaining why you want it to a human.
> Beyond Meat has never claimed to be a healthier alternative to meat and it's a bit of a straw man to comment like they did.

Not sure why you'd think that's a straw man when they explicitly state it on their website. First sentence on their Products page:

"Imagine your favorite meaty dishes like burgers and tacos delivering the juicy, delicious taste you know and love, while being better for you and the planet." [0]

[0] https://www.beyondmeat.com/products/
SEEKING WORK

Location: Berlin, Germany

Remote: Yes, part time remote is fine too

Willing to relocate: No

Email: martinpuskajler@gmail.com

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The previous 4 years I worked as an Scrum Master, Product Owner or Project Manager for digital agencies specialized in native mobile apps and webportals(CMS based).

I supported my crossfunctional teams (UX, UI, Data Analytics, Development, QA) in removing impediments, moderting all of the scrum events, backlog grooming, requirements engineering and customer handling.

During my time i gathered exprience in several tools and methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, Google design sprint, story mapping workshops, Product field etc.

I am a EU citizen (no need for Visa in EU) and Im eligible to stay in USA for 30 days without Visa (Waivers programme).

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinpuskajler/
Cablevision/Optimum (now Altice) added a modem rental charge and network expansion fee, which was the impetus for me to switch to Fios after having Optimum for 15 years across 3 different homes. I ended up paying almost half for the triple play (it will go up after a year, but is still significantly lower overall even after the discount expires).
What's not to like about Tesla? Charismatic CEO, moon-shot of an idea, the product (car) looks fantastic, moves like a bat out of hell (when the battery is fully charged), has a luxurious interior, and has has just the right Techie Chic mixed with "I'm doing this for the planet" aura -- as well as being a car that shows off your wealth because you could have bought a BMW for the same price.
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Repairing Macs is an issue though.

You should keep a few replacements in reserve in case some minor component fails.
I've wanted to study Sanskrit for a while now but nobody around where I live can teach it. So I've been nibbling at at occasionally. Some points of pronunication are a bit vague such as there being two kinds of T's and D's which sound almost identical to me. I've read the Gita and the Uphanishad s in English (Eaknath Easwaran's translation). Here's my impression. It's definitely worth reading through a translation. You can read it not as philosophy or religion but simply to read it. That's why I read it. To climb the mountain of life a little bit higher to see more. To see a tiny bit of what men like Oppenheimer, Ghandi, Thoreau and 1.3 billion others have been inspired. I can now read most Devanagari characters, enough to recognize simple words when they appear to me in stores like "Dharma", "Karma" or "Tantra" etc. That said, I identify more closely with Judaism than anything else. You need a place to call home. Still, the Sanskrit language is fascinating and the Hindu scriptures have made a deep impression on me.
Cars with high-tech safety systems are still bad at not running people over
Not agreeing with: even factoring in the social services that Europeans enjoy

Nobody goes broke here when you get sick.

And still, ISP for me is 43€/month, fixed, unlimited and stable.
There’s no competition because of lobbying (aka corruption).
A modular world

"A successful, modern incarnation of literate programming is going to have to fully support our current module-based world."

Have you heard of "Volumes"? That is, multiple, self-contained books?
I wonder why they chose to trumpet Libra with a big announcement and all this rhetoric implying it would be a major competitor to fiat currency.

Surely that wasn't necessary to popularize it. It could have been launched quietly and promoted in-app to the target audiences, and the furor from the press and various governments could have been largely avoided.

Was there a benefit gained that outweighed that cost? Or does Facebook drink its own kool aid so thoroughly that they simply didn't realize people would push back?
I mean if you want to get that extreme about it, sure. When I read it I initially interpreted it kind of like "rags to riches" where a person "starts with nothing".

Obviously there's still a person, they're still alive, they had some history and have probably made some money and experiences up to that point, but we still say that they "start from nothing" if they eventually become successful, and you can google "start from nothing" and come up with tons of articles of financial advice about saving and whatnot.

I wouldn't be surprised if several designers interpret the theme like I did. There will probably be very few that actually have the game begin as a blank screen, as that severely limits what types of games you can make, I imagine.

But thanks for pointing out that it can go more extreme than how I imagined it.
What counts as an interaction? It seems to me there can be an infinite number of interactions between just two atoms.
I still think there are subtle issues with the semantics. Does "jobs created" necessarily imply "careers started" or is the case something else? Where are the boundaries? How much of its personnel contributions are part-time workers or independent contractors?

Nonetheless, I think you have a great point here. There's a subtle positioning difference between "employees" and "jobs created" -- the latter most directly connects a company's economic impact/participation with its contribution to the domestic labor market.
On the other hand, just because MKUltra existed, it doesn't follow that it was successful and that the CIA can control your mind through your television and through chemicals in the food and water supply. Yet "tinfoil" people assume the latter from the former almost universally.

Let's not abandon the premise that extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof in favor of assuming that any conspiracy theory, however outlandish, should be assumed correct simply because some conspiracies have been proven to exist in the past. People don't doubt "tinfoil hat people" because of who they are, but because they don't care to present evidence to back up their claims, or accept evidence to the contrary.
Hey look an influence operation.
Maybe someone can help me because the exact details seem to escape me... but I remember hearing a story about a man that stumbled upon a secret government signal and he reported it thinking that it might be Russian spies. Well the government basically misled him into thinking it was an alien signal for years. The guy never could believe the truth even after his handlers told him that it was all lies.

Sometimes crazy is just crazy; other times it is nurtured along. Intelligence ops use this as a tool for sure.
I practice what I preach. Axiom is a 1.2 million line computer algebra program, in literate programming form. Look at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_(computer_algebra_system...

And, if you want to see a "gold standard" example of literate programming see Physically Based Rendering
(https://www.pbrt.org/) which won an Academy Award)

This book has deservedly won an Academy Award. I believe it should also be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize — Donald Knuth
Ice itself is a potent eroder of mountains, but with regard to aridity, both the northern Himalayas and parts of the Chilean/Argentinian Andes are in arid regions - though not arid enough for them to be ice-free, at least for now.
Chapter 2 (Chapter 1 is "About This Document") is "New Features Summary".
The point is though that this should be part of the list price, not a fee added on top.
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"call for quote"
There is no mention of it on his Wikipedia page, he died 1967 while mountain climbing. Only later people would be aware of Project MKUltra.
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I’m not big on organic produce per se, but the other side of that argument would be non-organic just means your food has been lathered in chemicals that the insecticide industry puts a lot of money into “proving” isn’t carcinogenic and destroying the food chain in other ways.

It’s easy to see bugs, it’s not so easy to see or ever know the externalities of invisible chemicals.
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you must be joking, what crimes? /s

they probably payed him a big bonus and set about incorporating his results into standarized procedures to be used against "enemies of the state"

he apparently served as president for several Psychiatric Associations.. yikes
We used SQLite for a while until we were limited by IO on our crappy SD cards for our embedded product and wanted a database server with more tuning options. Before that point, it was a very capable database, she I wouldn't hesitate to use it for pretty much any product that doesn't need high performance, cross thread access (basically any crud app) or the ability to run in a cluster/dedicated server (e.g. high storage requirements).

It's fast, simple, and easy. Perhaps my favorite feature is that backups are just a copy (in fact, when I'm debugging an app, I often copy the database into a temp directory and go to town).

I totally agree that SQLite is a great first option for startups. If your database will fit on your filesystem (gigabytes, not terabytes), it'll probably do really well. It's really easy to switch to something like Postgres later, and it's really nice to not have to worry about the complexities of a database server until you actually need them (e.g. you're considering hiring dedicated IT/DBA staff instead of just developers). And there's a good chance you'll never need anything other than SQLite.
I was thinking that he could encode the already read card data in a modulation of the RFID transponder itself. If the signal were randomised then it would just look like a noisy power supply or something?
I'm talking about how you could do this in Python. Don't know much about Haskell.
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The beauty of electricity is that it can come from anywhere. And you don’t have to change anything in your process to change source of electricity.
Microsoft and Google Cloud’s Battle for the Enterprise
Maybe so but your bank is not going to send money to someone unless they have proof that you are the one sending the order. I doubt you can just mail a letter to your bank and ask them to send money out of your account.
I'm not so sure about the services part. These include healthcare without copay, education for your children (usually university included), and pension. For all citizens, not just the top earners in tech.
A RoboCop, a park and a fight: How expectations about robots clash with reality
That’s just it. Most of the fees that Comcast charge aren’t government taxes but are made to look like them.
Curtis is a great story teller, and I'm yet to find a factual inaccuracy in his storytelling style of reporting. Full recommendation on anything by this guy.
Browser extension: nonstop streaming from Bandcamp feed/collection/wishlists
For people who like listening to music on Bandcamp. The site forces users to press play on the next track after the current one finishes on these pages - they don't allow continuous streaming. This extension works around that and provides uninterrupted playthrough of everything there. Now it's perfect for me to listen to while programming :) It also does a couple other neat things like shuffle your entire collection and show album prices on the fan activity & new releases feed.

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bandcamp-streamer/hopclencgmfjiipjmlenfcdgcdblfmjh

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bandcamp-streamer/
Technique #1 - 'FORUM SLIDING'

If a very sensitive posting of a critical nature has been posted on a forum - it can be quickly removed from public view by 'forum sliding.' In this technique a number of unrelated posts are quietly prepositioned on the forum and allowed to 'age.' Each of these misdirectional forum postings can then be called upon at will to trigger a 'forum slide.' The second requirement is that several fake accounts exist, which can be called upon, to ensure that this technique is not exposed to the public. To trigger a 'forum slide' and 'flush' the critical post out of public view it is simply a matter of logging into each account both real and fake and then 'replying' to prepositined postings with a simple 1 or 2 line comment. This brings the unrelated postings to the top of the forum list, and the critical posting 'slides' down the front page, and quickly out of public view. Although it is difficult or impossible to censor the posting it is now lost in a sea of unrelated and unuseful postings. By this means it becomes effective to keep the readers of the forum reading unrelated and non-issue items.

Technique #2 - 'CONSENSUS CRACKING'

A second highly effective technique (which you can see in operation all the time at www.abovetopsecret.com) is 'consensus cracking.' To develop a consensus crack, the following technique is used. Under the guise of a fake account a posting is made which looks legitimate and is towards the truth is made - but the critical point is that it has a VERY WEAK PREMISE without substantive proof to back the posting. Once this is done then under alternative fake accounts a very strong position in your favour is slowly introduced over the life of the posting. It is IMPERATIVE that both sides are initially presented, so the uninformed reader cannot determine which side is the truth. As postings and replies are made the stronger 'evidence' or disinformation in your favour is slowly 'seeded in.' Thus the uninformed reader will most like develop the same position as you, and if their position is against you their opposition to your posting will be most likely dropped. However in some cases where the forum members are highly educated and can counter your disinformation with real facts and linked postings, you can then 'abort' the consensus cracking by initiating a 'forum slide.'
I once read similar sentiment regarding the nazi efforts. I was curious, because I saw, probably like the U.S. did when they agreed to the exchange, that experimenting on humans like we did on animals could not possibly fail to give insights that would be almost impossible to get otherwise.

Reading what they did, however, it really looked like the valued cruelty over science. The people they hired for that were not qualified (heh, turns out that sociopathic biologists who bought into nazi racist theories were not the brightest) and disregarded any kind of scientific method.

Also one of their goal was to prove the inferiority of some races. Many experiments only had this goal in mind.

I thought they experimented on humans like we do on animals. Animal experimentation may be cruel but cruelty is not the point, actually stress can impact the result in a big way.

I remember they made experiment to see what temperatures the human body can handle. So they subject prisoners to various extreme conditions and... do not even note the time they were exposed to it. It was THAT amateurish. I really feel it was just torture renamed. "Hey, let's burn some Jews! We'll call it science!" "Ok, I'm in." Experiment result: the untermenschen died.
I suppose it's time for the Guatemala syphillis experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala_syphilis_experiment and Harry Haiselden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Haiselden next.
Checks are almost a specialty item now. I was shocked at how much they cost even from the discount mail order printers. If I keep the same bank, this order, the smallest they produce, likely will last the rest of my life. Guess they have to cover their costs on what is no longer a high volume business.
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For those interested in parapsychology check out Dean Radin's talk on whats new since the 70s - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUw9kT19EVc
That’s still not the point. McDonalds tells you on the menu how much everything costs.
Even in Malaysia expenses for tools such as computers and software is small compared to wages for skilled professionals.
The US cares about money laundering by US entities abroad as well and there's no get out of jail free card for "well, the other guys said it was okay". On top of that one of their selling points is how universal and frictionless it's supposed to be. If they can only operate in countries with useless regulation they're kind of doomed on that.
I regularly quote PCBAs in different countries. If you are looking for any place as cheap as China, I can't say that such a place exists. The only way that the math works out is by building the product yourself with a cheap SMT line. Using a domestic CM is a non-starter for a low-margin consumer product.
I will say two things. First it has been a real question whether WeWork made any sense forever and it is a real business case that you can analyze rationally and quantifiably.

Second this article is not that at all. It’s contribution was entirely in its headline. The rest of the article is a high school essay of rhetorical filler to meet the demand for anti-capitalist theatre.

While many would have the natural inclination to agree with the conclusion, this article is not the best example of the argument unless you are tracking the politics of society’s increasingly negative views of Silicon Valley.

Finally the New York Times style inspired me to write equally pretentiously. How did I do? :)
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Yup, that Delhi-Lucknow Ganga-Jamni tehzeeb is deeply rootless. I’m sure Mamta didi et al and the by now Bengali minority in Kolkata are happy you’re dubbing them as deeply rootless.
I’ve always wondered what the energy density of superconducting rings is? I guess no one has ever tried to optimize one for weight or size.
Have you tried? I bet you they would. Mine does it with a phone call!
Olive oil is not that good for you, and most importantly, it burns at really low temperatures, and ends up tasting horrible when it happens.
I know what is the PCC's ideology. And it is socially more acceptable to dislike it than to boycott Facebook.

I don't even know what is Zuckberg's ideology. And I am actually more confident about the Chinese knowing what they are doing than about Zuck.

Yeah, I want something equivalent. I want digital euros. I get to vote for the guys who put that into place.

I don't care that a solution is "western" if it is not democratic.
He’s a closet Hindu nationalist
What is proof but just another way to increase the likelyhood of an event?

Got a DNA match on a murder scene? Sadly a match isn't unique and several people can be matched.

Got your suspect caught on the crime scene? Might've just been at the wrong place at the wrong time.

A cop caught the suspect murdering? The cop might be the guilty one and just trying to frame an innocent.

This kind of statistic is as good as proof, proof isn't 100% reliable either.
I'm reminded of their existence when visiting Canada / US. Their continued existence is baffling.
Great! Thank you for this.
A Separate Kind of Intelligence
Maybe saying "opponents have [2 cards not 5]" indicates pre-flop? The communal cards are often referred to as what someone "has" despite being communal.
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Would it? The point of reporting like that is to create reader confidence by disclosing any possible conflict of interest. Taking a narrow, technically-correct interpretation of the rule, rather than a bend-over-backwards approach is a bad way to do that.

Also, your "huge lag" point is a strong argument in favor of disclosing. That suggests funding relationships have a more lasting effect.
It might lead to fewer allocations in complex programs, as the compiler is able to put more in the stack under some edge cases.
Bolt's record, while impressive, is by no means unexpected or "crazy". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men's_100_metres_world_recor...
this is an excessively dramatic take on the situation. apple isn't doing anything sneaky here. their whole brand essentially boils down to a line of locked-down, tightly integrated products that do what they are intended to do (by apple) very well. I don't think anyone is confused/misled about this. if you don't trust apple to do the right thing for you most of the time, or if you don't like the idea of a company deciding what the right thing to do is, this is not the brand for you.

I used to have this exact argument with my dad all the time in the early 2010s; he liked apple and I liked android. I couldn't understand it at the time, but my dad liked how locked-down all his devices were. it removed a major source of anxiety he had using technology. years later, I realized it was pretty cool that we could both have phone OSes the way we wanted them.
I wonder if IR imaging can be used to read the books burned in 1944 by the German army at the Krasiński Library in Warsaw [1].

Many manuscripts among them were never reproduced. A random example: Jan Ostroróg's chess primer written between 1602 and 1610, where he supposedly invented the algebraic notation (a-h 1-8) over a hundred years before Philipp Stamma, to whom it is usually credited [2, in Polish].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_book_urn.jpg
[2] https://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Encyklopedia_staropolska/Szac...
In most cases, they're hoping they can take a shortcut and avoid all the long, slow, and most importantly boring-to-voters work of setting the scene for a healthy ecosystem.
> but even those that do, don’t know how to achieve it

Yes, I hand't considered that, but it's like 100% (or 99.999%) correct. I work on a sprawling campus and about 10% of buildings are ~100 years old, and many others 40 or 50 years old. As they remodel and build new facilities, they try to go for trendy cool SilVal lite and... yeah, it kind of doesn't work. I mean, nicer than the old cramped facilities, but that's it.

For finance etc., I'm not sure locked doors & frosted glass are sufficient if they're embedded with other offices and there's lots of intermingling foot traffic in the area, but I suppose with relative few additional precautions it could work, and it would be very smart for WeWork to enhance themselves in that area. However these business frequently want longer term leases, so WeWork would also have to expand their options for 5+ year lease terms. Getting a good baseline of such customers would also offer a nice baseline of guaranteed revenue that could help weather temporary downturns in either the overall economy or startup/vc availability.
Care to name those companies?
It's really not a problem. I use statically typed languages (mostly Go and Rust), and everything just works as long as my database later retrieves and stores the right types. The only slight complexity is currency, which would be stored as an interger because there's no decimal type.

Unless you have really strict requirements (generally not the case), SQLites storage classes (NULL, INTEGER, REAL, TEXT, BLOB) are sufficient. If it really bothers you, you can use extensions to provide whatever abstractions you like. If you're mostly doing CRUD, you really shouldn't have any issues.
Lots of Wikipedia articles today lol pretty interesting, especially all the groups working on human experimentation.