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I'd say this is one of the things Apple has been very successful at. Releasing a new version of iOS has become a highly anticipated event for a staggeringly large portion of the user base. From the way they handle updates on a software level (auto-updates and persistent notifications) and on a social level (turning it into a large PR event tied to their new generation of devices). It's something Google was never able to do, and I don't think it's any accident that Android updates are lagging so badly.

I think there'd be a veritable shitstorm if, say, AT&T suddenly decided to withhold iOS 13 for 6-12 months, while it's effectively SOP for Android devices (where you have manufacturers needing months to release a new version, then providers who delay it even further to test ... something).
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Here's a USB version: https://windfisch.org/rotarydial/rotarydial.html
No it crashed because the MCAS malfunctioned.

That malfunction manifested as the plane pitching down consistently. No matter what the input of the stick, it'd point to the floor.

Now, if a big flashy light+warning buzzer had been sounding (like with a stall warning) then this would have never happened. But it didn't, and because the pilots were not trained for this specific feature (cause it had the same rating) They didn't know what to do.

Its nothing to do with stable. the MCAS silently pointed the plane at the floor regardless of user input.
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I just don't think they care, and they're under the assumption nobody else cares too.

I work for a news publisher in Sweden, and when we got acquired by a larger one the CTO of that company held a huge speech about why working for a news companty was so much more rewarding than working for Spotify. You get to make sure democracy functions, keeping the power in check. Sure, we can't pay you as much as Spotify, and it will not look as good on your cv, but at least you can go home and get a good night's rest knowing you did good. After the speech, minutes later, it was announced to us that this would probably be last time we saw him since he was going to start working for an online gambling business. Kind of took the air out of that whole spiel.
Which could well be a good thing. Reagan's dictum is often invoked to mindlessly reject any such possibility.
One may suppose, too, that a healthy smattering of works by the great Edgar Allen Poe might come in handy, disregarding, of course, their largely unscientific nature; furthermore, if one wishes to write in such a fashion, one must devote oneself to the cause of attractive semicolon usage... a largely forgotten art in these modern times.
Yes but you can't expect the average use to learn this. It's not user friendly at all.
CO2 was first hypothesized specifically as a gas making up the difference in mass between charcoal and the remnants of burning it in the 1600's by Jan Baptist van Helmont[1].

That respiration of animals emits CO2 was determined at least by the 1750's.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Baptist_van_Helmont
You are not alone, lookup "USB rotary dial" ;-)
Do you mind quoting some prices? I would be really curious what French/European cheese costs in Japan and what is considered a 'reasonable price'.
Any mushroom guide which encourages people to forage and acknowledges it has two alternate species which look similar but have unfortunate outcomes is skirting a disaster.
OMG, I'm glad I mentioned Fry's. Maybe I'll stop by my local store one last time before it goes to the Great Mall in the Sky. From the comments listed there, it looks like my local store is already running out of things to sell.
Congrats on the job!

First day you aren't going to be doing any coding.

You are likely to be doing a lot of admin nonsense, getting your dev environment set up and learning how their source control works / is structured.

After that you will be told to pull something from source control and will probably spend next couple of weeks familiarising yourself with the particular code base you are going to be working on. Don't treat this as an easy slacking off period. Take it seriously. If you are going into a code bases in the 100K+, 1M LOC size then this is a fairly hefty task on it's own to try and understand the architecture / structure.

Ideally they will pair you with someone senior for a few weeks if you are a junior developer.

Do you know what source control they use? If so it's worth getting to know it before you start.

If you are a junior developer, develop a thick skin, you will likely get lots and lots of comments on your code and potentialy a lot of them negative. This is fine, this is expected. Learn from it. Don't end up in your feelings or take it personally.

Be prepared to ask lots of questions, again if you are a junior developer this is totally expected.

What would be nice is to get included in code reviews from the start, look at the comments on other peoples code reviews and learn from them! This will help you pick up the expected style as well, if they have one (and it's not enforced by some auto-formatting).
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Hey, Buggy Boy on the Commodore 64 was amazing.
It is interesting to play compare-and-contrast. The US government has a policy that is substantially similar in many respect - if I want to have a digital conversation without the US government getting a copy I'm not sure how I would go about it in practice. Certainly in a work setting, everything may as well get CC'd to the local government and US government offices.

The Chinese are upping the ante and this policy is going to be a social disaster for anyone involved in politics. But it is a good moment to reflect that the problem isn't the Communist Party of China specifically, it is a lack of private digital spaces. Spy agencies don't make us safe.
Feel free to ask questions. As much as possible. Then it will not be so comfortable
Hey, are you open for remote candidates outside the USA? Thanks!
I'll recommend fastai course [1].

At the end of the course you will be able to implement almost any ML state of the art solution (classification, regression and Computer vision).

Sounds too good to be true? Jeremy have that effect, The other day in a podcast they told him Saint.

[1]: https://course.fast.ai/

It's free btw.
You can solve this globally by getting eye glasses that filter blue light as long as you're not doing any sort of colour-sensitive work.

After a day or two you don't notice the colour difference anymore.
Why not on Android? You can just install Firefox: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fi...
You will screw up at some point. It's ok. It happens, we all took a website offline or merged the wrong branch. It's part of the learning process.

Learn from everyone, there are many different ways of doing everything, don't just follow blindly one person, observe what everyone is doing and choose whatever works for you.

Be always open to improving, learning and becoming a better dev. This is a job that is ever evolving.

Read the error and understand it. Don't click blindly "ok" or "close" on error messages, they might contain essential clues that are too easily dismissed. Error messages are often done poorly but are also one of the main tools we have.

Don't overdo it. It's soooo easy to burn out, be conscious of your health.

Have a great first day!
No amount of "stability" is going to correct for a system constantly adjusting your nose to point into the floor.

All mcas does is adjust the offset on the elevator.

it is a failure of UX and oversight. Pilots weren't trained, Alarms weren't installed. Its as simple as that.
Can you cite sources for the factual claims you're making here, which contradict what's claimed by Wikipedia and many media sources I've read?
You’re talking about perhaps 10 tonnes of wood each year for each person. It’s an interesting concept, though, I wonder what uses we could find for it if we tried to do that.
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So what does it mean for US companies that have an office in China but most of its trade is outside of China?

China govt gets to read all their data?
Small bug but something wrong with character encoding e.g. Busáras (bus terminal in Dublin) renders as BusÃ¡ras in right column
I had the same experience showing my daughter Cut the Rope.
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> if I want to have a digital conversation without the US government getting a copy I'm not sure how I would go about it in practice

Use an E2E encrypted messaging service?
Dell and HP are having trouble sourcing Intel CPU's and started rolling out way more AMD machines. Customers needing a new machines don't have a lot of options and has resulted in AMD having about 1% server market share to about 10% in just months.
The exceptions are only rare if you're not poor! Car ownership is near 100% among affluent people, but drops to around 50% in the lowest income quintile. Which is why the LA bus system that "nobody" rides has 800,000 daily riders.
Yeah, that is neat, but it doesn't have the nice punch of must have necessarily resulted. from above.
I speculate that in the future the trust aspect of using third-party hardware might be solved technologically. And I agree that today the tinfoil sentiment is not baseless.
Could be a nice captcha.
What happened to that? Have we seen any positive effect stemming from that? I haven't heard much about it since.
> internet ... it turned out ok

Did it? The internet I see is largely overrun by bandits and shysters looking to make a quick buck at the expense of every sucker they can find.
It might not be Silicon Valley but the German market for software development services is very much a seller's market, too.

In general, software developers have no problem at all with finding a job (or clients as a freelancer).
Thanks for this, I was not aware. For now I think they are still my best option but I will definitely keep this in mind and adjust my setup.
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https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-api-no...
Yes, happened to me about 6 years ago. I'm a software engineer. My daughter was about a year old then, wife had left her job because we'd moved cities and later to care for our daughter. I had a car loan and home mortgage.
It was devastating and a blow to my self esteem, frankly. Took me about 2 months and a lot of sleepless nights to figure out what I wanted to do in life. I had savings to last about 10 months but that was it and my wife also wasn't finding anything since she'd basically been out of the work force for almost 2 years by then.
Thankfully, a lot of stars aligned and a former boss who was starting up hired me. The first thing I did was pay up my car loan and home mortgage by selling another property we had (sold it for lesser than I wanted to, but I was done managing assets that weren't really bringing me enough). The next was building up finances. My wife eventually found a job and the last 6 years have basically been about saving money. I have around 70% of my retirement goal now and pretty happy about it.
I've learnt that my job (and employer) are a means to an end. It's not my life. A job is a contract. One works for the man, and gets paid in return. That's all there is to it. My eventual aim is to leave a regular job in 4-5 years if all goes well, and work on something that interests me more.

PS: My manager sold the startup last year to a big corp and I have a bit of Stocks/RSUs from that so that'll also help in the retirement goal of 4 years.
Additionally make the drag a lot more forgiving. After all, the rotary dial guides the finger around the circle. To emulate that, people should be able to drag in a very inprecise way and the dial should be reliable in rotating anyway.
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I'm always sceptical when people say that diversity of colour somehow leads to diversity of thought.
Glad to see Joshua Davis (Praystation) in there. Now known as https://joshuadavis.com/ he was way ahead of the times IMO.
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I remember selling 1 BTC so I could buy an AMD Radeon 290x to mine even more. Still have about .5 BTC left and just can't part with it.
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That’s certainly optimistic. I can see a boot stomping on a human face forever.
You know which planes crash the most? Tiny planes with less than 6 passengers. Almost no automation, and by god are the pilots excited while they plow into the ground through their own error.
If everyone wears them you should to when doing color-sensitive work. Granted that's a mighty big if.
Western governments are covert about surveillance. China is overt about it, you continuously feel insecure and watched... and much like US's security theatre in airports that's the aim. So anyone who might wish harm to the communist party's agenda to feel threatened. How much are people willing to tolerate this sort of behavior? Hitler showed us all the way. In fact from a social development point of view China is going through what the world went through when it experimented with Fascism. So how does this end? Well, probably with some sort of war, likely a cold war of sorts.

It's also obvious that just like in WW2, American business will align itself with business interests even if those interests seem to be outright wrong. No matter, money is money. You would think we'd learned but we have learned nothing.
Have you tried the standard Regus offices?
Thanks for the link, that's a really cool little project. If I find some time I will try to replicate this.
HQ in Paris killed the Singapore branch because the company was not making money. I was given 1.5 months of notice, which seemed like plenty of time. There wasn't much drama to it that was intrinsic to the situation. I would have really liked a remote job at the time, so I tried a couple of the ones listed on HN's "Who's Hiring" thread, but didn't get any offers. With a week left before I was officially unemployed, I then interviewed with a startup and PayPal. The startup was ready to move forward, so I asked if PayPal was going to give me an offer as well. They said yes, so I rejected the startup's offer because I wanted to work somewhere where there was scale. Unfortunately, PayPal then experienced a management change, followed by a hiring freeze, after which the guys who assured me an offer was forthcoming, to their credit, continued to try to get me that offer. I waited because I trusted them but they were ultimately unsuccessful, which resulted in me being unemployed for about 2 months. I eventually got a job with another startup. I guess the moral of my story is that an offer is not an offer until you get your first paycheck?
> I do not expect anyone to use Tilton, but I use Tilton every day.

char* newString = new char[newMaxLength];
memmove(newString, string, maxLength);
delete string;
string = newString;

It's great that it works for Crockford, but he's right. Peeking into Tilton reveals a tool obviously built to work well enough for a developer.

That's fine.

But nobody else should probably touch it.
None of the games I mentioned are orphaned in any sense of the word, and that was the point I'm making.
Indeed - and there have been cases of dangerous goods being shipped, e.g. counterfeit chargers.

I've stopped buying things from Amazon and instead gone back to using bricks and mortar stores with online presences and do click and collect, there's just too much crap to sift through these days.
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I'm glad Mr. Sullenberger spoke up about this. As some people have pointed out in this thread, Langewiesche is indeed a terrific writer, but the tone of the piece in question was off-putting.

For those who're interested, Patrick Smith (aka Ask the Pilot) also wrote a critical piece about the article last month: https://www.askthepilot.com/plane-and-pilot/
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What I mean by "SAFT is dead" is that the purpose they were overwhelmingly used for - which really was to try to sell token futures as a security, but have the resulting tokens not be a security - is a non-starter.

Sure you can try to construct exceptions to this - but dodging the Howey test was what SAFTs were invented for, and I feel reasonably confident in stating that this complaint against Telegram makes it very clear that this just isn't going to fly.
Ah yes the "I heard someone say in some internal meeting that this might be possible to do, so I'll sell it" move.
Great story, all that isolation from Silicon Valley probably helped you focus on your craft and didn’t provide distractions.
How do people justify working for any controversial company or authority? If there's one thing humans are good at it's rationalizing bad behavior as good or at least acceptable behavior.
Nope, I know our Spaces is converted from one but I never worked in it before that or in any other Regus. Any idea how they compare?
Yes to both.

A Google Scholar search based on "carbonic acid gas" and "coal" found Babington, William. "A case of exposure to the vapour of burning charcoal." Medico-chirurgical transactions 1 (1809): 83. at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2128797/pdf/med... :

> When carbon in combustion combines with oxygen we obtain carbonic acid gas, and at the same time in proportion to its moisture, more or less hydrocarbonous gas is evolved.

A Google Scholar search based on "carbonic acid gas" and "exhalation" found Allen, William, and William Hasledine Pepys. "XVII. On the changes produced in atmospheric air, and oxygen gas, respiration." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 98 (1808): 249-281. at https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstl.1808... with quotes like:

> In this experiment we meet with a remarkable fact, viz. that as much carbonic acid gas was given off in 5½ minutes, as in the former experiment in eleven minutes ; so that it appears, whenever atmospheric air is taken into the lungs, it returns charged with about 8 per cent, carbonic acid
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If there was an option to disallow caching, I'd consider converting some of my websites to AMP, if only to get an icon in the search results. But the only way to opt out of caching is to make an AMP page invalid:

https://amp.dev/documentation/guides-and-tutorials/learn/amp...

I'd also be curious if this implicit license tied to a file format is really enforceable.
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> You can't prove a negative, so there are no aliens.

That's self-contradicting.
My wife will not allow me to go to Costco unsupervised. :)
Makes me want to lawyer up for relatively small shit than this but nonetheless shit, for an employer calling me low energy on taking a day off for flu and then telling me that my next 6 months' leaves are withdrawn.
I was following it up until the vendor FUD. For most of the code your part of the orgs wants to run, chances are, you aren't hiring the world's best dev/prod/designers to dedicate their lives to say your website's anti-spam comment forms -- they're going on the differentiating stuff! For the boring whizbuzz widget, the top vendors in the field will already have centuries/millennia worth of worker hours & experience behind it. And, even if you picked a wrong vendor, should be waaay less political to replace them.

One phrase that I've increasingly come to love is "torpedo in the hull" (https://allaboutstevejobs.com/blog/category/steve-jobs-histo...). It's tough seeing senior folks tolerate vendor-outsourcable projects going to weird internal special projects & artisinaly-managed OSS. We know most folks switch jobs every couple of years now, including those behind that fancy internal project, and inheriting unnecessary code & ops is such a drain. Why encourage planting timebombs?
I think you misunderstand the quote. It says that the level of freedom in a given society is comparable to that of dissenters.

Of course people who are in favor of the system and benefit from it will never be the one who are censored. But the fact that they are not censored is not a good measure of the freedom in that system.
What?? There's lots of job for developers in Berlin, I've been interviewing these last few months and got offers from at least 15 companies
It's unfortunately very common for people to believe that they'll get bought out based solely on the ingenuity of their product.

The business reality is that almost any software can be easily replicated by BigTechCo for a max of a couple million dollars, far less than any founder is hoping to get acquired for.

In an acquisition, buyers are not buying the software despite whatever PR-friendly face gets put on it. They're buying something they can't just easily generate by locking a few of their already-employed engineers in a closet, which means either a) intellectual property via patents; or b) an audience/userbase that the acquiring company can't already easily access.

No entrepreneur should go into it without internalizing and understanding that. Code is cheap. If you want to be acquired, you have to bring something to the table.

(also note: for Google and Apple, "a lot of mobile users" isn't really part of that equation)
That's sort of hilarious! Makes you wonder, who wrote it, did he laugh at you poor sods on the inside for maybe having "morals" and other inferior things ripe for exploiting with "free" people like him. Or whatever else went on inside that head. If anything in particular.