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I graduated with an associate's degree in Chicago in 1999 and went looking for a job right away. My skillset was mostly C/C++, but I was struggling to get responses to any of the resumes I faxed out. The crash was still over the horizon, but I think my lack of experience and lowly AS degree kept a lot of doors closed. The Midwest wasn't like the Valley in that respect.

I finally took a job with a company whose flagship product was a browser front end over a 30 year old Pick database. They hired almost anyone off the street and gave them a two week training course before turning them loose in client code (customizations to the flagship application). They were literally training new hires to program, and I was kind of at a disadvantage because I knew what I was doing and got things done quickly, which is a liability when you bill by the hour.

The twenty year old company re-branded to a dot com and was planning an IPO. We got new business cards and letterhead with the new name and everything. Then the owners saw the writing on the wall. They silently dropped their IPO plans and we got new business cards with the same new name except no ".com" at the end.

With only an associate's degree and with my only professional experience being an outdated database system + programming language, all recruiters wanted to talk to me about was roles with this same outdated system that was apparently running in places all over the world. If I wanted to hitch my wagon to a dying platform, I had a place in France begging for someone like me to one work on site for a couple months.

Even those calls stopped when the bubble burst. I took another job on that outdated platform that paid better and kept sending out resumes. Things eventually got better, but I still couldn't find a role outside Pick systems.

It wasn't until I spent my own cash on a Java certification AND the market improved that I started getting calls again. But then I faced a different challenge, because my Java experience was the wrong KIND. I had worked with Oracle Application Server and their suite, not Websphere or Weblogic. I understand now that a lot of that strict filtering was to prove that nobody local had the skills that offshore developers had. Yep, the early 2000s was all about offshoring!

It's my opinion that starting my career in that time and place set my career back at least five years. That experience is irrelevant now, thankfully, and I'm in a pretty good spot these days managing a devops team.

I don't want to be all "you kids don't know how easy you have it", but it's so easy today to spin up a web application, host it for practically free, and maybe make a business out of it. I would have to fax over code samples, and now you have recruiters and hiring managers cruising GitHub profiles looking for coders to reach out to.

I do worry about the possibility of another bubble. I'd probably be fine, even if I had to do something outside tech for a while. But for young folks outside SV things could get pretty hairy again.
how time flies!
Infosys had a reputation as one of India's most transparent companies. Reputation is somewhat a nebulous concept so I am going to use a proxy: P/E ratio [1].

According to theory, investors pay up a premium PE for well managed companies and although it is an imperfect measure, lots of evidence suggests that it works (Look up HDFC Bank in India relative to its peers or government owned companies v/s their private counterparts)
In India at least, Infosys had always had a premium PE compared to its peers [2]. So the "pristine brand" may have been with the investors.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/INFY/infosys/pe-ra...

[2] https://www.motilaloswal.com/article.aspx/1202/How-and-Why-t...
I finally read some more of the stories around here. It's great to see others with similar stories.

I'd say, I don't think a recession will be so bad for the engineers this time around. Afterall, there's a ton of outsourcing to other countries that happens these days, and a lot of companies seem to have thin engineering teams in the states. I know there's big-tech where this isn't necessarily the case, but I already think that companies and their engineering budgets are much more modest compared to the old days. Also, with the few exceptions for those crushing it on stock options in big tech, I think salaries are a lot lower over all in software engineering, even 18 years later.
I don't think that's a problem. A lot of valid work has been done on simplified models and they're there to illustrate what might be going on rather than absolute proof. And yes you can criticise them, since that is the point.
Yes I see what you mean, but that is a bigger trend than just Apple e.g. Google keeps trying to hide URLs in Chrome so you can only get around the web by clicking links and running Google searches. But Apple is definitely trying to hide the concepts of files, filesystems etc from users, that is something I find particularly annoying
At least they had a password /s
Pressure from the higher ups to release to production can force you to dump all the IT security knowledge you accumulated over the years.
You've got to wonder when the government continually awards huge projects to the same outsourcing firms time after time, and time after time the project is either a total failure or not fit for purpose, and it's delivered years late at a multiple of the original price. And the next big project that comes along? They'll award it to one of the same companies again, and they'll get the same outcome again.

There simply has to be some major skullduggery afoot.

The internal GDS seem to be bucking the trend, delivering good services and contributing to OSS. Surely this demonstrates that an internal team is a better way? Even if they don't deliver entire projects themselvea, they could lead them from a requirements, architect and tech perspective, and have sway over which firm gets the outsourced part.
Equifax failed to protect its main database with user name "admin" and password "admin"

FTFY
the python script will be fine frankly
That's great. I was one who left Redmond, but never made it back. I still have "some" regrets about leaving, but have gained a lot of great experiences. (I'd have no doubt been better off financially staying there, though.)
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Seems like the internal Avast network was _compromised_, but not the products itself.
Yea, I think this is the normal thing that happens to good people that do their work and contribute to the team. And you are so right, don't take it personally because that can eat you up and it was almost never personal.
The demo of https://www.mozilla.org/de/ shows what I consider to be a big missed opportunity in the approach: it only suggests a machine translation, and not to switch to the English page, which is probably a better course of action.

Specifically, the page is marked up with such tags as these:

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-GB" href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/" title="English (British)">

I would prefer the browser to first suggest “do you want to switch to the English (British) version of this page?”

Sure, I may actually want a machine translation of the text I see on page—the content may be different on the other language’s page; but if the page indicates alternatives are available, I’d prefer to try that first.
Euston road isn't even subject to the congestion charge. Only side roads are.

Furthermore the vast majority of traffic circulating in C. London traffic all day are busses, Taxies, phvs and commercial vehicles. Not private vehicles.

There is nothing in that note which indicates how, when they came to these conclusions. It's pretty much impossible for the headline claim to be true as a result of the ulez.

Where is the supporting collateral? This is political grandstanding.
So there's less pollution in the zone, but do we know whether it's simply moved to outside the zone? We want to have less pollution, not just spread out pollution.
FYI, you can report taxis idling with their engines running to the TfL. I wrote to them last year after regularly seeing waiting taxis idling their engines in front of my workplace, and they wrote back saying it’s unacceptable, and to email them with location, time, registration, and ideally some photo of the taxi.

Although I have seen an improvement in density of taxis idling their engines while waiting, though I now regularly ask normal drivers to turn off their engines when why’re clearly just waiting, often getting angry or hostile reactions.

So many drivers aren’t even aware that they shouldn’t run their engine while parked. At least in most London boroughs idling has become illegal with on-the-spot fines.

Some boroughs let you report any idling vehicles, eg Westminster :
https://www.westminster.gov.uk/report-engine-idling
That's not good, but it's also only one of the many, many things a bank does, though. The most important one is keeping the money safe of course. It's entirely possible for a bank to do some things right and other things wrong.
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Your argument is "it's not fraud because others do it"? Yes, going forward knowing full well that you have no intention of fulfilling your promises is fraud regardless of "whatabout those guys".

You have at least a dozen comments on this thread defending these practices and pointing fingers at the likes of Theranos as if that's a good justification. If someone needs Theranos to look good they must be pretty shady. Your line of argumentation sounds very biased.
> Black Cabs, used by the rich

Ugh. I don't know anyone who at some point or other doesn't use cabs.
What you just said is totally acceptable as opinion. But claiming "they deliberately craft misleading and false stories" is not provable by your person, since you do not yourself work there. There are people who really believe their drivel is true. I don't claim to know why this is, but flat-earthers seem to exist, even today, just as a side example.
The climate news needs to be looked at with extreme caution, I agree. Newspapers tend to spin scientific reports in a specific direction (both "alarmist" and "denyist"). However, in general the scientific literature is very cautious, and presents models, measurements and conclusions along with their uncertainties and assumptions. The interpretation of these uncertainties and assumptions is often lost in translation when presented to the general public, which is a shame and should not be endorsed. From a PR perspective, it may be nice if the Meteorological institute(s) would give some public interview or explanation when doubts are cast on their work. The discussions get political really quickly, which leads to a blurring of the lines between what the facts are and what (politicians) suggest the solutions should be to curb carbon emissions. This needs to end. Unfortunately, we are still in the situation where people outright deny the human role in climate change and politicians on the "denier" side of the spectrum abuse this to continuously cast doubt on whether any action is required at all.

That being said, you claim: "the satellite measurements had to be corrected, an action which was explicitly rejected by the recent Deltares report I referenced" but I couldn't find it in the report. The report (section 6.9) says [rough translation]: "The trend between satellite measurements and tide gauges [in the Netherlands] shows some agreement, along with their standard errors." and later "[..] satellite data are a less suitable source of deriving sea level rise". Note that this last quote should be interpreted in the Dutch sea level context, not the global context.

> It's the alarmist media that blow it up to huge proportions.

Agreed. That needs to stop.

> I'm noticing strange patterns, in for example picking starting dates for graphs

This, if true, is bad and needs to stop. It is the same behavior as the "deniers" have used for years (for example, the "no warming since 1998" meme).
Is his name L Bob Rife?
so napoleon wasn't ingenious either? what about sun tzu's art of war? does it have zero ingenuity too?
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do you prefer trotsky's nemesis stalin?
It doesn't even need to use machine learning. I have written several analyses of metamath databases to look for common patterns, and then recommend definitions or theorems to simplify things. If some expression is repeatedly used over and over again, that suggests something that should be created once for reuse.
Private cars represent around 10% from what I recall.
Public does not mean that filming is allowed. The UK seems to handle it the same as for example Germany does.

Constant broadcasts of real court sessions seems to be a mostly American thing.
Nope, I opened a business account with them in March this year. Same exact experience like you described.
Yes, it can definitely be the opposite. And product companies can have the hardest time if their target audience was the bubble companies or those that supported the bubble companies. This is also part of why I think a lot of things are different this time around, although we could still crash, but I personally feel it would be different.

Last time much of the entire market and product was new, e.g. web purchasing was barely in its infancy, companies were building up around that and the web wasn't an integral part of peoples lives, yet. Today, everything we do is around smart devices, the internet etc, so I don't think a collapse like we saw during the dot com boom/bust is likely. But that's just my opinion, could be totally wrong.
A system and methods for extracting value from a portfolio of assets, for example a patent portfolio, are described.
By granting floating privileges described herein, a portfolio owner can extend an opportunity for obtaining an
interest in selected assets from the portfolio to a client who lacks the resources to accumulate and maintain such
a portfolio, in return for an annuity stream to the portfolio owner.

Their IP lawyers must have had a lot of fun writing that one.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20070244837
For those not familiar, here's a map of the ULEZ.
https://www.ulezchecker.com/ulez-zone-map-london/
It further erodes any case 'the West' has to argue against the behaviour of China.

And that is a sad indictment on the path the 'victors' of WWII have followed.

(Edited to add: if the account given in the article is relatively accurate)
Would it be possible to shut off the engine when entering the peripheral of London and coast into the station with zero emissions? Perhaps use an electric locomotive to push or pull them out of London, again with zero (local) emissions.
This is a good start but needs to go further.

There are plans to extend the ULEZ all the way to the North and South Circular ring roads, which will really make an impact. But won’t happen until Oct 2021.

Hopefully the good results here may help them push this date forward.
This clickbait headline should be a bannable offense on HN
Thing is, they are very good at the sales part.

I worked for a small IT company that serviced only a handful of clients, but had done so for several years. We got bought by one of the big outsourcing firms, and in a remarkably short time they were winning large new projects from our customers - we could never have convinced them to part with so much money!

All of the projects we run have a mix of western and Indian people, a mix of onsite and remote. There are always several manager types involved in nebulous ways that nobody understands, and there are always random Indian devs based in India who the client pays for, but they literally do nothing.
A slightly different take on Eternal September:

In the old days, when you joined a community it could be very insular. That's okay, there were communities for everything and everyone. So you had to read the rules, learn the lingo, and shut up and lurk for a while so you didn't invoke the wrath of the mods. Or you were gone.

Anti-social, attention-seeking, spammy, obnoxious or controlling behavior was simply not tolerated. What right did you have to come into another's home and begin making demands as to how they live their lives?

All of that has changed. The above behaviors are the new norm, thanks to the simultaneous nature of the walled gardens of social media and the fact that the walls are low enough that everyone can see into your garden.

Suddenly you have nosy neighbors saying, "Hey, I'll be honest, that crabgrass in your lawn is making it harder to appreciate the beauty of my own lawn. Maybe you should clean it up, everyone else is doing it, so you must be anti-social if you don't.

The entire meaning of the word "anti-social" has completely changed. I would consider most modern online communities to be extremely anti-social.

The only answer is a return to form, going back to individual communities where we can more freely express our opinions, just making sure to network our communities in such a way that compassion and sincerity flourish, and we don't just return to the echo chambers of the 90's (they did exist!).
I've heard lazy evaluation makes performance problems a nightmare to track down: some seemingly innocent piece of code turns out to trigger evaluation. In other words, the lines of code in the diff that introduces the performance regression, can be very far from the lines that do the heavy lifting, and both can be far from the line that actually needs to be changed to fix the problem.
Because the closer you get to peak performance the wider the gap gets.

Women athletes will no pass qualifiers for their respective men’s Olympic events even in the same weight category.

Muscle mass, nervous system joint stability biological males have a distinct physical advantage.

Sure a female athlete at 75kg might wipe the floor with you on some events however take a 75kg male athlete and they might as well not be the same species.
Anecdotally, yes. When I was younger, seeing women in tech roles made it feel like an option for me.
The conversation around bank bailouts involves more money than the wealth of entire countries flowing through the financial system like a leviathan; so deep that we paddlers in the oceans of finance barely see the shadow.

It is an excellent time to be cynical; and a great time to recognise that if anyone were ever to be tempted to conspiracy this is the sort of value that would tempt them.

The woefully uninformed I'm not going to quibble on because agree with you on that point.
Mentioned this above but taxis are not allowed to idle their engines waiting at taxi stands. You can kindly ask them to turn off their engine (most do without argument).

Or you can also take photographs and report them to the TfL.
I've seen these in the Netherlands, nice vehicles. I think a retrofit kit for the old cabs would be nice. Keep the chassis, frame and wheels, swap the engine and tank for a full electric driveline. Given the scale it might be cheaper than new vehicles.
The Art Of War emphasised winning without fighting wherever possible. So not really comparable.
This is not a 3D drawing, it's a restaurant in Korea
Another thing you should note is even though The New York Times is "the newspaper of record" there are tons of things they get consistently wrong, and seldom ever retract an iota as far as I've seen.

You also have in the news industry what is acceptable fact. There are facts, which if any one party find them negative to anyone reported, simply won't be reported. This is why the ideologies of China (blocking or discrediting news) fit so well with the US right now - we're already basically doing this.
Sure, you can do that! I was answering the person's question, in which they wanted to get paid for developing their FOSS.
Theoretically, even if never plugged in, they should get much better MPG due to the regenerative braking and the ability to always run the combustion engine at the most efficient revs (which for city driving should ~halve fuel consumption alone).

The reality is due to a series of poor design choices, that's rarely the case. Normally due to certifications on the braking system, the regen braking isn't actually hooked up to the brake pedal, so most braking is done with the regular friction brakes. The engine also doesn't normally run at the most efficient RPM because users don't want to hear the sound of the engine revving while they're stationary. Combine that with the fact there are efficiency losses in the battery and electric motors and the added weight of the battery, and you suddenly have a system worse than a regular car.
Yeah - I have purchased a few of those tracks - not really "ambient" though!
One thing I will add too, is if you do go back to the enterprise or at least out of tech, make sure you don't allow yourself to stagnate or miss the upswing. I saw that happen to friends who got salary stuck making half what they would had they joined the broader market during the recovery. Enterprises can rescue you in some instances, but they are not usually great for salary growth outside of a few key places and people.

So I'd only caution people to pay close attention the whole time so you can know when to jump back into the market and to capitalize on that next salary increase.
Work from Oslo has shown that building machinery is a major source of carbon emissions and NOx in cities. I would also expect buses to be a major source if they are not included in the numbers above.
>The company relied upon a single individual to manually implement its patching process across its entire network.
Yeah, that's true " a portal used to manage credit disputes"
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Agreed, but lower cost access to space could also change the game itself. If launch costs are 1/10 or 1/100 what they are now, your bespoke $100m absolutely-cannot-fail-at-all-costs satellite can similarly be blown away by satellites that can be built without the super-expensive verification required to make them infallible. Just build them cheap and good enough and if/when they fail, throw up another.
> Report on first six months of scheme confirms no increase in pollution around the ULEZ boundary
The pretext of the lawsuit is that Exxon misled its investors, but the real aim is to attack a fossil fuel giant. Suing Exxon obviously hurts its shareholders. There is a Wall Street Journal editorial on "New York’s Climate Show Trial" https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-yorks-climate-show-trial-11... .
I think this is an important point actually.

Programming languages (at least in the context being discussed) are just a means to model a problem domain. Some people find it easier to model domains in strongly typed functional languages but at a much larger percentage do not. Let's for argument's sake say it's 1% of all programmers. That is still a huge number of people though.
Cheques haven't even existed for 15+ years here in Ireland. America is quite slow on the uptake of tech considering they are arguably the most disruptive innovators in the world as a country.
> Sounds like a huge personal bias to me my friend.

> I feel sorry for you.

That's very disingenuous and insulting. You're implying you have no bias which anyone reading your comments on this thread would find really hard to believe.

Your whole reasoning relies on accusing everyone else of bias and claiming that other companies also have these shady practices. That's not a defense.
No, it is not the responsibility of parents to force things on their children. Children are not property to be owned and controlled by their parents against the children's will. That we've wound up believing this is honestly embarrassing.
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