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I have told several coworkers in private that if money was all they were interested in, that there are more lucrative fields.

I was referred for a CtH position at a small company years ago where they turned out to be, to quote the old CIA line, looking for a certain moral flexibility. I declined to convert, and I also don't accept referrals from that person anymore.

I was not at all surprised to see a couple of those people end up at an online gambling company in my neighborhood a few years later. And relieved they didn't seem to recognize me.

I keep hearing there are people who went into CS entirely for the money. I have deluded myself that I hadn't met many of them. But you encounter a bunch of them in one place and it's pretty hard to ignore.
If an American tech company tried to do something like this some employees would refuse and you would hear about the employee protests. I think because of the compulsory military service and their multi-generational dirty war Israel engineers don't seem to have these kinds of moral qualms.

(Normally I get flagged on HN for saying things like this, would love an explanation if it happens this time.)
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Rare, yes. I’ve had it happen and had it happen to colleagues but it’s been a while. And that’s on a pretty large sample size. Anecdotally better than it used to be.
The second reference cited above includes the passage:

"There is an interesting story about this frequency offset. At the time of launch of the NTS-2 satellite (23 June 1977), which contained the first Cesium atomic clock to be placed in orbit, it was recognized that orbiting clocks would require a relativistic correction, but there was uncertainty as to its magnitude as well as its sign. Indeed, there were some who doubted that relativistic effects were truths that would need to be incorporated [5]! A frequency synthesizer was built into the satellite clock system so that after launch, if in fact the rate of the clock in its final orbit was that predicted by general relativity, then the synthesizer could be turned on, bringing the clock to the coordinate rate necessary for operation. After the Cesium clock was turned on in NTS-2, it was operated for about 20 days to measure its clock rate before turning on the synthesizer [11]. The frequency measured during that interval was +442.5 parts in 10^12 compared to clocks on the ground, while general relativity predicted +446.5 parts in 10^12. The difference was well within the accuracy capabilities of the orbiting clock. This then gave about a 1% verification of the combined second-order Doppler and gravitational frequency shift effects for a clock at 4.2 earth radii."

It makes sense that offset corrections can be handled by a lumped model, as any relativistic corrections on timescales longer than an orbit will be constants of the satellite orbit. Making sub-orbit-duration corrections might require a model that captures more of the relevant physics.
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One man's maturity of past times is another man's unwillingness to confront injustice in society.

But on a broader note, I think a lot of it can be traced to the current president. He seems to go out of his way to do things that stir up deep anger in his opponents. There's a reason why millions of people hit the streets the day after his inauguration to register their dissatisfaction with the fact that he's president. That was unprecedented in US history.

Combine that with how little an average person can do to influence what happens in Washington, and you get a whole lot of angry people desperate for something they can actually impact. Tech employees have leverage over their employers, and they're using it for this because it's the only avenue they have to vent their anger at the current state of politics. The candidate they probably supported in 2016 got more votes but lost anyway. They probably don't live in a state that's competitive in the electoral college. Their local representatives probably represent their views well but are similarly limited in how much impact they can have. This is one of the only ways they can actually do something about what's making them angry, and they're taking advantage of it.

I'm surprised it's not happening at more companies.
The trick tends to be grounding the conversation in the misdeeds of people to whom the person you're talking feels no affinity. If you're talking to an American, use the current Chinese government or the UK as an example of how face tracking can be abused.

Putting an organization that a person has faith in on trial in order to make a political point runs the risks both of getting distracted and of failing to convince in a way that backfires.
Username checks out. No, but you really don't want to be a collaborator either. If other parties are willing to step up then they can be addressed if and when that time comes. Principles always were a 'circle of influence' thing.
> The population in Catalonia is 7,5 millions, and the people that voted independentist parties are 1,6 millions. Have you consider the possibility than not all those "inexistent" people are independentists?.

7.5 million including kids and people who don't vote. 5.5 million people that can vote, ~4.3 that voted (2017 numbers). Over 2 million votes that voted explicitly pro-independence parties [1].

Those are the real numbers.

> Lets assume that some strangers would appear at your door requiring politely you to leave your home and work and go away because you aren't in the right kind of thinking and your bloodlines are Spainted. Oh, and you are not a US citizen (or a german citizen, french, whatever...) anymore.

That's sci-fi. It hasn't happen. It won't happen. If Catalonia would become independent, why would they kick anybody out?

> If you really want to educate yourself, a simple search in youtube will provide you with plenty of data that debunk this idea. Think about it.

Go to Barcelona, report back if that's a war zone or not. The problems/fires have been extremely focalized.

[1] https://eleccions.ara.cat/parlament-21d
We can't talk about sex on the internet but we can still have civilized and gentile conversations about the need for genocide.
Sorry to mishear your prior point about omitting the field entirely..

But let's set that aside and focus on the pre-declaring of your ADTs, as you suggest.

This is no trivial matter. In fact this is the crux of the issue if not a large part of the issue.

Pre-declaring what knowledge is "allowed" to flow through your system -- if you throw all other objections away -- this one is a enormous blocker still for the Clojurist. (Well, I should only speak for myself at least..but I suspect.)

Clojurists rely almost universally across the board on ad hoc knowledge (ie dynamic maps) with zero ceremony required before getting to introduce and capitalize on this knowledge .... and Clojure is the perfect 'glove' for handling these ad hoc packets of knowledge..it was explicitly designed afaict on this exact way of handling data.

So if Haskell is not oriented around this same construct then I don't think your read that Hickey's philosophy is much-realized by Haskell is accurate.

You can take this further and make the very obvious point that in real life we never ever have to go through any pre-declarations or ceremony like this.

And in my experience if productivity in coding is a function of anything it is _how close the programming model is to your natural way of thinking about the world_. When that cognitivie impedence is reduced massive creativity is unleashed.
In addition to the the frustration, I think there's a lot of idealism around programming, whether that comes from the media, forums, Twitter, the blogosphere, etc. You dream of best practices and beautiful code and trendy frameworks but find the reality is writing error handling code for malformed CSVs you import from a website that looks like it was last updated in 2002. As in all things, you learn as you get more mature that the world is no where near as beautiful as you were told, and often the messengers are nothing more than that, and haven't written production code in years.
Yes, of course. But how can I contact you?
I think also in the age of internet, cell phones, constant surveillance, and more, we're also much more aware of these atrocities and the governments do not always have the power to simply hide it.

I mean: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-01/satellite-images-expo...

It's hard to imagine the average person having access to this kind of reporting 40 years ago. (the 1990 was 30 years ago next year...)
The article covers this in more depth, but the short answer is: The hybrid approach has benefits when your workload has both shallow-and-wide (fetch all data for user X) and deep-and-narrow queries (calculate the average number of logins for all users). Row stores excel on shallow queries, column stores excel on deep queries. For time-series data you want row-oriented structures when the data just comes in and convert it to a column store after it ages.
It feels like closer to 50% noncitizen where I work, but could be closer to 90% if you include naturalized citizens.
Yes, my dilemma goes away and comes back. The tedium can be good, neutral, or "sub-optimal." I value the dilemma, not necessarily the tedium.

Good advice from other posters here, I found myself repeating it so I'll keep it short.

Enjoy work if possible. Find happiness.
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It's well worth the effort as it it will also pay dividends in the longer term. Speaking wo filler words in normal conversations (especially in the workplace) can help you immensely.
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To me a planb is to have a few hotels, bnbs in ideal locations i can book at reasonable short notice. I know they have space and they are in my budget. I have extra cash so I don’t have to wait for a airbnb refund if they take time. I don’t use other airbnbs as a planb in case something happens with airbnb. A couple of years back we booked a lovely place in normandy, france with indoor pool for feb half term. The owner cancelled while we were on the ferry. Luckily i had a plan b we drove to a lovely chateau near mon st michel and enjoyed our stay. Airbnb did refunded me quickly but not in time to depend on it for checkin at the chateau. I booked a flat in the uk for a colleague to stay while in uk for a few weeks. The host tried to bait and switch i refused and found an alternative airbnb which as it was went ok. I had to wait for a refund because i paid for 3 weeks.
I haven't used this combination, I haven't used FUSE in awhile, and I forgot to add a disclaimer. FUSE in general has been flaky for me, too. Syncthing has worked pretty well for me though, so I looked to see if Unix Philosophy&trade; could be used to smash a couple things together. I think that at the end of the day, they are both deceptively complicated technologies.
I'm absolutely certain that the Earth has space for a finite number of humans. I don't want to live in a pod and eat a protein slurry of crushed bugs. Note also that human population was more or less flat for a long time of our existence - explosive growth happened over the last 200 or so years. That has been long enough that we structured our economy around it, but it's coming to an end. The free lunch can't last forever. Quite similar to the end of Moore's law and for much the same reason - people don't want to be packed too close together and transistors can't really get much smaller. I see it as more of a return to a norm than some catastrophic event. With proper sustainable resource usage humanity, should last on Earth until the Sun kills us. Which is a sort of tautological statement if you think about it - if our resource usage is not sustainable, our population will shrink eventually to the point where it is.
As another commenter mentioned, the most factual way of describing that group of people is "people residing or working in the country illegally".
There aren't laws against people, there are laws against what people do.
I am not sure I completely understand:

Is the host able to unilaterally change the dates of your booking on AirBnb? Did your agreement to the text (asking for $20 extra) allow him to make the changes?
Every mobile app: "Sorry your version is incompatible with the service as it existed three months ago, you have to update."
There's a nice plot stemming from there.

“A rogue big tech employee puts on a grey hat to orchestrate a hack + personal blackmail on government officials, to instill a deep fear out of them and make them realize the folly of refusing end-to-end encryption.”
All the anti-population growth popularity here would seem at odds with the HN population of outer space-expansionists.

Elon isn’t going to have enough settlers.

Perhaps another Great Filter candidate.
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And my response would be, "My party voted in the government, so yeah, we voted for the right to look through your phone. Now hand it over or do you want to be a law breaking criminal too?"
That just means that the brain is the entire ship. All the same questions still come up
Except the 10th guy has more stuff than the other 9 combined.
It's a misdemeanor -- on the same level as jaywalking.

and for that, they get executed, their children get raped and sold into slavery, and their women simply disappear.

but sure, it's about punishing criminals :eyeroll:
> "We're writing the same software, just better" isn't a reason to come up with a new language.

Define better.

Also, Go isn't really an all purpose programming language. It's application is fairly specific even if it's something a lot of people would use. It's good for fast, simple concurrent applications especially for web related projects. Bonus points for easy binary distribution. Microservices are a big deal, and golang is really well suited to build one.

On the other hand, it's never going to be the cool kid on the block like python where there are a tonne of clever libraries that are a lot slower but easier to build with.
Because that's been the social contract for hundreds or thousands of years, and we know they'll probably fuck it up anyway.

The question is will they percolate to the top of the priority list? Small time offenders often get away with it.

[edit:] if you ask me, which you kinda did, I think we're using a self-organizing system, where people self-select into active positions in society and then we cull the worst actors - if we can - before they get too powerful. We get enough pleasant surprises out of this arrangement that we tolerate the bad ones. Trying to plan this stuff out ahead of time? You get a boring dystopia or a scary dystopia.
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My observation is that Scrum/Agile/<your favorite SDLC methodology here> is just a proxy for team competency. If you have a team that is technically proficient at what they do, have reasonable time management skills, and are motivated and incentivized properly, it doesn't matter what SDLC they use and they'll figure out an efficient way to succeed. At the same time, if you have a rag-tag team of developers who don't know what they're doing all the time, it doesn't matter what SDLC they are using, they are going to fail. SDLC might give some guidelines for managers to feel safe but it all comes down to understanding the economics of the team and figuring out what works best for them.
I’m sorry to hear you hold this view, there is a lot of great content on YouTube when you don’t subscribe to those trying to turn a quick dollar.

For example, high quality educational content on YouTube is invaluable and only possible because of the support of their audiences.

How YouTube rewards content however, is an issue.

Rewarding longer videos, incentivising click bait and prioritising regular upload schedules invite a breed of video that isn’t high quality and ought to be the focus of change.
Yup! And that commoditization of hardware has made it really inexpensive to have a Data Lake, where you first put all your data in raw format (so you only need to do EL - and not T all in the same step). And then, because of the way C-Store sources like Redshift are built it makes a ton of sense to just do your T step as a set of Views (materialized or not) onto of that Data Lake.

It allows you to not do E & T & L all together. It's really nice (less complex, easier to implement, less costly, and more flexible) to have that T part pulled out and done after.
'On the one hand WhatsApp probably have more people working on the app'

From a career in software development, I tend to feel that the more devs, the buggier. Maybe, MAYBE (number of QA)/(number of devs) = reliability coefficient.
There are also hotel brands and official indeoendent star ratings.
It's absolutely not bullshit. I've worked places where this is true and places where it isn't. In my experience, the former is more common.
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Applying for asylum is not a crime.
> It might, yes, but that doesn't mean that making that modification is illegal (it's not).

Using the modified device where the public vehicle code applies might be, even if making the modification, alone, is not strictly illegal. (For instance use of the device so modified would be illegal on a public road in California, where it would violate the screen use law, which only allows screen use if it has a lockout of all but specified allowed functions while the vehicle is moving. Note that under the text, even if only the functions permitted while a vehicle is in operation are actually used, it would still violate the law to use the device if the lockout was disabled so that it was possible to use other functions.) Cal. Vehicle Code § 27602.
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Every country has concentration camps then. Not a single country is so relaxed about illegal immigration. EU dumps asylum seekers on Greek Islands. Or what are these perfect countries that accept everyone unconditionally?
The Signal client is open source. The back end not so much.

A lot of Signal is basically "trust Moxie".
Oh no... they might have to pay for an editor if they want to retain all the features!

Seriously, I don't know why this is news. Boycotting something that is free is going to accomplish what, exactly?
So? Smart people can figure out that they can be made "illegal" by the stroke of a pen, even if they've complied with every rule they've encountered so far.
Ok, you are reacting to the exact term the GP used, but it doesn't look like it was used as a term of trade, just as a general characteristic.

Using an airplane as a first stage of a rocket gives the exact same air-breathing advantages as using a rocket (or better, because the planes uses air as reaction mass too). That makes both equivalent on practice. Yes, an hypersonic engine makes for a larger stage, and an dual one that can operate with and without air makes for an even larger stage, but they are of the same broad category.
Not just that -- github is now PAYING to support ICE. They're actively engaging in whitewashing. it's a corporate bet to them to continue supporting ICE.
> On top of that, everybody has been trying to murder Jews during the entire history, so there's a lot of natural selection.

Wow! Does it work too for the blacks? Maybe, blacks run fast to escape from whites on electric cars!! And women! Women are prettier than men to manipulate men!!

Please, don't do that. Please DON’T.
The traveller is penalised the full price of the stay if they cancel late. Why is the host not penalised the same amount (which would then be credited to the traveller as compensation)?
It's also the case that, at least for Postgres, building a new low-level storage format isn't feasible until PG13.

And also this approach allows us to leverage alot of the battle-tested stability built into current storage layout with TOASTed pages, without starting from scratch.
Thanks Jerome. And sure, no worries. I thought you’d probably had a few people working remotely apart from the office :)
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I don't think it's meant to be deceptive. When companies say they're being apolitical, they don't normally mean they're attempting some careful calibration where nothing they do is relevant to any political cause. They just mean they don't want to participate in political battles.
> conflict resolution is becoming a dying art

Conflict escalation is a deliberate choice by those in charge. Such as ICE.
I think those people should absolutely be educated, but there's more to the issue and IMO high-level coverage should reflect that more as more than a footnote. I do agree that the history you're talking about ought to be a powerful factor for convincing certain groups that this matters.

In the end I'm just one person, in my bubble just like everybody else. I could be totally wrong. What I'm saying is just based on my own observations of how people respond to partisan issues, and unfortunately social justice is a partisan issue.
You might be right. I was replying to the parent comment which said facebook should have a ad free subscription product at $2-3 per year. Just tried to say that the Revenue per user is more than that.

Also, the numbers you posted include all the inventory - facebook news feed, ads on the side right on desktop, instagram, messenger ads, stories ads, instant articles, and even the ad network. According to facebook (read somewhere) 70% of their ads are on the ad network.
Your argument is pretty bad, but also, have you heard of prison abolitionism? It's a thing. We don't need the carceral state. The US prison system in its current form is a monster, arguing anything different can only be done from ignorance.
do you separate children for jaywalking? or littering? because that's what the "crime" of "being illegal" amounts to. it's a misdemeanor.

so the next time you get caught speeding or get a parking ticket, remember that they could have taken your kids and sold them into sexual slavery. have a good day.
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Gawker was trying to destroy someone by publishing tabloid news and then overpowering them in court, until someone richer than them showed up (because they did the same to him before).

It was their own strategy used against them in a legal battle, over tabloid news instead of some hard-hitting report. They aren't a victim in any sense.
And the only reason for that is you haven’t taken enough of my money?
> Why?

Physics. Entropy.

If it absorbed energy that touched it, it would heat up. You could then use the difference between it and its cooler surroundings to run an engine. Waste heat from the engine could then be absorbed to keep the engine running. You'd have created a perpetual motion machine, which is considered impossible.
High levels of investment, mandatory military service, and exceptionally good education.

If you ever get the chance to talk to someone from Israel, especially someone in tech who was raised in Israel, I recommend it. Ask them about where they went to school. You'll learn a lot.
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There's a lot of nonreversability in the way a processor interacts with memory though.
You mentioned a minor downside to limiting paid political ads online. We get a huge upside in return.

The game we want is one where political movements can organically gain traction based on popularity.

In this world where political ads are banned, movements don't need financiers to be as successful as they could be. In your example, it's ironic you mention the civil forfeiture movement, because they are exactly the type of people who aren't spending money on ads. PACs and Super PACs for election campaigns are doing the spending. I wish you would acknowledge this.
On mobile it has horizontal scroll to read text to the right (after the leading banner/header stops), but to the left it's cropped with no way to view the text there.