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The fact that you wear different hats suggests that you are more hands-on than the typical manager in a mid/large company. In order to progress you might need to show leadership, P&L accountability, business knowledge. Technical prowess is rarely the path to upper management levels.

If advancing your career is your ambition, then you might need to side-shuffle into a role where you do more management and direct others to perform the roles that you current perform from time to time.
I used to be pro-MIT, now I'm increasingly leaning towards licensing my stuff under GPL. Yes, this means some of that stuff won't be usable in a typical commercial settings (and there were times where I had to roll my own implementation of some functionality at work, because the only good library available was under GPL). But I want to live in a world GPL tries to make happen.

MIT & friends are licenses that benefit developers. GPL family focuses on benefits to end users.
I'd love to hear about any examples good things they have done. The information currently available paints a bleak picture.
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Can you explain why it's ironic?
The other thing is not maintaining the lines or area surrounding them because of the NIMBY idealism of most Californians and/or graft.
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> In talking to people about this, I found a number of people who just can’t work from home. Whether its not being as productive as they’d like, or something else.

Quite true. I worked with a friend of mine for years who almost never worked from home. The only time he did was during critical production failures experienced late at night.

He had two children and normally would be in the office in the pre-dawn hours.

I asked him why he got into work so early and he told me, "if I leave before my kids wake up, it's easier on them."

Hard to argue with that logic, IMHO.
For what it's worth, this isn't a security flaw.
Or even legal system. That would be unthinkable of ;)
"Cloud" computing offerings are hard. AWS, for better or worse has an incredible amount of institutional knowledge on monitoring, metrics, and reliability. It's easy to sneer at this until you really think about it or try it yourself. Maybe this isn't the only thing though..

AWS' sites aren't great, and I love and use Redis. But look at RedisLabs site [0]. The buzzwords make me sick; where is the pricing? The Redis Enterprise "product" page is a wall of text [1]. The RedisInsight link [2] flat out gives me a "Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead" in Firefox because their cert isn't valid. Cookie overlay: check. Obnoxious chat bot: check. Next.

Elastic. Again, I've run Elasticsearch myself, it was a bit of a pain. And Elastic's site [3] is slightly better, at least there's a clear pricing tab. "Get Started with Elasticsearch" says "Watch Now", okay I guess it's a video... "Register to Watch"? Are you kidding me? How scummy is that?

Okay, so compare that to DynamoDB's page [4], not quite the same, but it's what I get when I search DynamoDB. Pricing tab - yes, the pricing is very complicated, do I need on demand or the other thing? But at least it's laid out in detail without me logging in. Quick tag line ("Fast and flexible NoSQL database service for any scale"), non-auto-playing video with length before I load it, links to sample code. Great. (To be fair, the AWS Elasticsearch site is not quite as good [5], e.g. no sample code.)

Sorry, bit of a rant. I want Redis and Elastic to succeed, and none of this takes a marketing genius. Their sites simply suck for me (but hey, not a CTO/CEO).

[0] https://redislabs.com/

[1] https://redislabs.com/redis-enterprise/

[2] https://acdn-live-redislabs.ps-pantheon.com/redis-enterprise...

[3] https://www.elastic.co/

[4] https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/

[5] https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/
I don't think it speaks to potential - it's just Wadler's Law ;)
The fundamental questions then become "do the freedoms you want match the ones they give?" and "are you willing to give up the freedoms required?"

If you answer "yes" to both, then there's no issue and you're happy.

If you answer "no" to either (or both), it doesn't matter. You're still stuck with them.

Therefore, the real "freedom" you have is to agree with them. Everything else is decorative.
Nice! it would be great if you are able to integrate a simple playground where getPainsIFeel() can be edited and the URL shared with anyone for them to enter `theirPains` for calculating Product-Market Fit.

Because getting people to share their problems, finding those who share the problem, getting those who would like build/have built solution for those problems in a single place is very hard. I've been trying to build a solution for it at needgap[1].

[1]: https://needgap.com
In the UK waged and salaried employees need to do nothing.
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> Do kids that speak english communicate more in english in cases where the input doesn't let them communicate easily using their preferred script? Are there new "hybrid" languages popping up in electronic communication where languages that use non-latin scrpit are written in latin in e.g. text messages?

Both, in my part of India. The latter used to be much more common in the feature-phone era, writing in Tanglish (Tamil words+English script), but seems to have become much less popular now. Not sure why, perhaps swype-type keyboards have made English so much easier to type.

The former certainly still happens a lot - I know a bunch of people (including myself) who would prefer to communicate in Tamil, but there's enough friction (not having a Tamil keyboard, having to get used to new keyboard layouts, the Tamil keyboard being buggy often enough, ...) to make it more appealing to go with English for normal conversation.
For the curious: https://opensource.apple.com/source/libmalloc/libmalloc-166....
I work as a Data Scientist/Machine Learning Engineer and I think that biggest issue with Nim are lacking libraries. Working as a Data Scientist is very iterative process, you spend most of the time preprocessing data. It's often try and see approach so interactive repl is a must. While I know Nim has some library to be used with Jupyter, I found it too immature. Other reason to favor Python is it's libraries - they are often written in cython which yields comparable (but of course a bit slower) performance to C. And to speed up custom code you can almost always use numba (llvm-based jit compiler that works with CPython).
In SF you will absolutely hear multiple of these things from the same person haha. I love it.
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That is a cynical conclusion, but the incentives are aligned for that it to be logical. The article framed the motive as to try "avoiding disaster". It seems like the most rational decision for PG&E to take considering the circumstances.
I find this kind of black hat cybercrime stuff fascinating. If I wanted to learn more about it (just for learning sake) what would be some good resources?
Banned tabs? Good to know. From now on I'll just ignore everything about Nim. I will also applaud the Go team's decision to include a formatter instead of such nightmare restrictions.
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It's an article about allegations from a court filing, not a story based on something overheard in a diner. What exactly is editorialized about the article? It basically just summarizes the details of the case. They even reached out to the parties for comment so they could offer their side of the story.
PG&E is a bit more nuanced and short-term, though the climate crisis might be contributing with the longevity of droughts and fires.

The issues around PG&E were largely self-reinforcing (I'm either oversimplifying and/or just plain wrong, but this is my understanding from someone who's probably not authorized to speak on the matter):

* PG&E devised fairly minimal maintenance schedules because money.

* Regulators approved said minimal maintenance schedules because it minimized disruption to residents.

* Residents largely perpetuated this by sponsoring politicians and policies that enabled the lack of upkeep.

with the inevitable conclusion being egregious levels of maintenance debt enabling or even causing disasters on massive scales.

Where climate change probably contributed to this entire circle is the "on massive scales" part.

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Disclosure: This is not my field. I'm parroting something I don't quite fully understand. Someone with more direct experience or exposure to the matter can probably clarify or correct me where needed, to include possibly all of this comment.
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Don't see many people talking about the additional environmental impact this is causing from people running generators nonstop.

PG&E should be buying everyone in their area solar panels and battery backups. That'd help alleviate a lot of the problems - and probably be cheaper in the long run.
Correct. If a fire is started and the ignition of that fire is shown to be linked to a utility's assets (power lines, gas line etc.) then all the damage caused by the fire could become a lawsuit liability for the fire.
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We are a non bank that may have a use case to track account balances and transactions and are looking for a backend system to support (the front end entirely on our side).

Even though most features of a core banking system (interest, loans, tellers, UI etc) wont be used, ledgers are complex and id like to avoid reinventing the wheel.

I spotted FINERACT which is incubated by the apache foundation. Does anyone have any experience with it or similar tools?
Altria bought their minority stake after Juul had already become the clear leader.

A lot of vapers were upset about this, but I hoped it would allow Juul to get some of that sweet regulatory capture. It’s a fantastic device for smokers who were disappointed by the vape pens that preceded it. (i.e. Me)

You should also compare the advertising Juul did before and after the Altria deal. Before they suspended all ads, it was nothing but 40- and 50-somethings talking about the switch use-case. Before, the ads were hip and trying to appeal to the younger crowd.
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The actual submission is about apps that install an unremovable piece of software that cause an escalation of privilege. The article you posted is about apps that can be removed just like any other software, don’t escape the sandbox and the most harm they can do is use an above normal amount of CPU and data.
Time to start burying the powerlines fellow Californians.
Contaminated (game)pods. That was about 70% of the story.
Sound is not discrete either, it does not seem to be a problem on computers, though.
Agree. I think Tesla car is a bad idea, especially if you don't have solar panels on your roof or a generator.
No, there's nothing to praise here.

When I delete all my repositories by hand, one by one, I expect to not find a joke in that email about how "this email is sent to you because you have an active repository on Gitlab".

When I delete an account on Gitlab I expect to be deleted from all further mailings (especially ones I never subscribed separately to), yet I got this email today. How many more places do I have to delete my information from to finally be rid of Gitlab?

How many more third-party companies Gitlab shared my data with at this point? Because that they do have it, there's no question about it - after all I just got this email.
Yes, this one sounds like a perfect use case.

I use docs.new and sheets.new several times a day. It saved me a couple of clicks per action, but subjectively it made so much smoother to stay within Google's ecosystem.
> But you are the debugger…

Ah thanks. My autocomplete didn't like the word "debuggee". Edited!
I'd bet that people were already uses to * and / instead of × and ÷ due to their existence in 64 bit codes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-bit_character_code
The problem is people often build homes far deep into these forests so actually deforesting the area would actually result in a massive amount of trees being cut down. Look at paradise, CA as an example.
Assuming that’s the case, can anything be done to GVR above ground cables to make them less prone to arching / creating fires?
PDF/A cannot run JavaScript.
I actually really enjoy coding in modern JavaScript. All these little conveniences have really added up. It's not perfect, but no language is.
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This is the definitive text. Read it many times.
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The xml, definitely. Without lisp-specific tooling that colours/balances etc, writing 5 consecutive closing parens (and not 4 or 6) is a headache. Also I probably couldn’t choose it on its own merits - I choose what the non programmers that edit the file can use (and they sure don’t have any other editor than notepad).

Then again: I’d usually only ever choose between formats with support already on the platform/standard library, if it was just some config or small data file. If the data is core to the product then of course it might be reasonable to include a new library or even write a parser. I’m talking java and .net now mainly.
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nim has a formatter
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Yes, this is a terrible idea.

Thankfully the legislature in California was forced to step in to protect the people of California. Almost no Californians are capable of understanding how uber and Lyft are taking advantage of them, essentially stealing their money.

Further, a large population in California are ESL or primary language is some other than English. These individuals don't have the capacity to understand the full ramifications of using such services. Stepping in to protect these minority groups was a no brainer.

Thankfully, our state legislature has a complete and full understanding of the citizens of California. It's highly unlikely that even if they mount some type initiative, it will fail or the state can use some alternative tactic to keep the people safe.
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Can you define `collectiveOwnership()` and `selfActualize()`?
Compared to BSON this looks safe.
Won't someone think of the malware company? How are they suppposed to sell their services to oppressive governments if WhatsApp keeps patching all the vulnerabilities they depend on?
There is some potent American law lurking about, so I'm not going to assume the GDPR is enforceable in ways untested in U.S. court.
Another issue I saw on the news was that firefighters couldn't fight a fire because the water pressure was too low. Turns out the water utility lost power and didn't have any backup power. They couldn't pump water from the wells.
> Watch Fox News some time. It's unbelievable how utterly insane the coverage is.

MSNBC is every bit as unhinged as Fox News. It wasn't always that way, but it's become worse and worse over time. Rachel Maddow's ranting and raving about the Russians, panel discussions about Tulsi Gabbard being a Russian asset - it's bad. I feel sorry for anyone who gets their news from either channel.
> So the motivation is to feel good at winning against not experienced players?

Contrast online matchmaking systems that take your assessed skill level into account. These are certainly... widespread. I don't understand why.

The design goal of such a system is that, no matter what your skill level is, you win or lose at a rate indistinguishable from chance. Are you getting better at the game? Doesn't matter; your win rate is constant. Are you getting worse under lack of pressure, since nothing you do affects your performance? Doesn't matter. Nothing you do can affect your performance. Your win rate is constant; the system will seamlessly swap in weaker players to play against you.

If I'm improving at something, I want to see better results than I was getting before. If I'm getting worse, I want to see worse results.
The "Unit 1" video presents atoms using aphysical cartoons misrepresenting size, behavior, structure, and properties. Nuclei size by more than 3 orders of magnitude.

One might argue that it's so obviously physically unrealistic and representational, that it's "clearly" iconic. Except that it could easily be made more clearly iconic, but wasn't. And arguments of the form "that's so clearly unrealistic, it won't cause misconceptions" are... just not what happens.

Then there are all the usual problems with computer graphical representations of chemistry, biochem, cell and tissue biology. Where "pretty"-but-misleading is prioritized over the messy multiple representations needed to avoid nurturing a rich ecology of misconceptions.

> thought [...it] looked pretty promising. Did you?

Better than many paper textbooks, yes. Doing the things we know are needed to produce good student outcomes... there's a ways to go. Promising? 3D graphics in general, oh very yes. But this project in particular, I've no idea. The incentives around education content are very dysfunctional. So actually providing deep transferable understanding... is usually not the metric of interest.
Seconding. I too always ended RPG games with inventory full of stuff I opted to save for actual emergency and not just some final boss. But it didn't translate to real life - I'm not exactly an impulsive buyer, but not all that savvy with money either (my current personal finance strategy is ensuring I spend less than I earn, and trying to increase how much I earn). In the past, I've experienced running out of money while being so burned out I could barely hold a job, and I vowed to never live through it again.

I think games are too different than life. Having saves changes a lot; e.g. I can refrain from using a powerful healing item in a fight and try to micro or luck my way out instead, because if I fail, I can reload and try again. I've noticed that in roguelikes, I'm more likely to use items - those games are harder and have permadeath. Also, in modern games I'm also more eager to use collected items, because the experience these days is so streamlined that I can rely on the game to provide me another powerful item just in time.

Life, unfortunately, doesn't have saves, and is not balanced.
> `array = Array()` ...which would break in Nim.

This is NOT true.

The first character is case-sensitive in Nim, so examples like yours are not only possible, but frequently used even in Nim compiler and standard library.
...which also works perfectly fine in Nim.
I have turned down immoral projects because I could afford to:

- a conference room proxy that intercepted and replaced HTTP ads
- an app for a quack that promoted a cancer cure
- a high-paying gig in gambling software,
- building a white-label browser that would give people in East Africa free airtime to punt horse-betting and hide its competitors' ads.
The Age of Napoleon is another good one: https://recordedhistory.net/the-age-of-napoleon/
Also didn't downvote personally, but I can certainly see why someone would.

Fundamentally, the problem exposed by this particular piece of malware was the ability for it to persist across removals and device resets, not that it was "sideload-able" by the user. Malware persistence should not be possible on a well-designed system, especially one where applications are generally untrusted and sandboxed. Had this been malware that requires sideloading but could be removed when noticed, it wouldn't even have made the headlines at all.

The problem with making the walled-garden argument here is like saying nobody will get sick if we just put everyone in isolation all the time. Like, sure, it is _a_ solution, and assuming the isolation is perfect, it _does_ achieve the goal... But this merely sidesteps the problem, and anything that slips through the wall (which as pointed out by other commenters, does happen on iOS too) will be just as dangerous as before.

The real solution is to "buff up everyone's immune system" and make it easy to restrict and treat malware apps when they inevitably end up on a device, walled garden or not.
Right. Xml is to .NET what ini was for MFC. It’s what the platform “makes” you use. The same is true for json on js of course.

On a platform that has almost no support out of the box (e.g python) the choice is open. But on a platform that has a couple of formats built in, picking a format outside that platform is a pretty big step. The return needs to be substantial for a .net developer to use yaml via an external library over xml.

My reasoning in this thread has always started from the perspective that xml comes built in and almost no other format does. This is the case for e.g java and .net but not for python or C for example. But the prevalence of xml comes from java/.net so if we are to ask why, then we should consider that.
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This. Also 0.95x and 0.90x. Even better, let user put whatever speed feels better. That way can also be used for improvement in foreign language accent reduction.
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McAfee: https://trustedsource.org/
Things like these should just be code in my opinion.
A contaminant is just something that doesn't belong in the product, but this doesn't tell us if it's harmful or not. There's a big difference between the contaminant being trace amounts of a different flavor, or the the contaminant being lead. It's really weird to write a whole scary article and not mention what the actual contaminant was.
Right, but it'd be a fire that PG&E aren't responsible for starting. This is the outcome of threatening to enforce responsibility on PG&E for fires caused by their lines.

Not to say this is the way it had to go, the alternative I see a lot of people proposing is that some level of additional investment in lines maintenance/clearing would have allowed PG&E to safely continue supplying power through the dry season. What I don't see there though is any consideration as to whether that made financial sense for the company.

Given that anything other than a naive view of the world tells us that a private corporation's focus will be it's liabilities and bottom line, it's hard to see (admittedly from the huge distance at which I stand) what other way this could have gone.