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This is a huge problem for my wife, a resident doctor.

She has reverted to ordering from Barnes and Noble and local book stores because she doesn't know what she'll get off Amazon. If she misses something important because she inadvertently got a knockoff with missing/incorrect info, she can't use the book as an excuse.
My current employer was formerly owned by Thoma Bravo. They "supported growth" on the surface. Under that veneer was really juicing up the company to make us more attractive for their exit - short term decisions that have resulted in a lot of employee burnout and have put us in a bad place under our new ownership.

I hope to not have to work for a PE-owned company in the future, as their goals (to position for their exit, usually 3-5 years after initial purchase) often result in short-term oriented choices that hurt a company's long term potential
Magento.

Note: am employee.
Hey, what part's wrong? I didn't focus on actual salary, just compensation policy (yoy bonuses & refreshers are usually 0 unless you have a compensation cliff in which case they extend your RSU's a a couple years out). The biggest loss IMO is loss of 401k options, almost no other company I checked claws back contributions. They also have a comp. band policy.

In terms of actual salary though, it's still pretty high so a new grad could do very well there!
Being truthful is not bold. Or maybe it is from your standpoint.

If you don't think that the category of semiautomatic longguns that have detachable magazines is not overreaching, then more power to you. Sorry, I mean bless your heart as they might say in the South.
I highly recommend this site if you want to explore the spectrum: http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
Thanks for the heads up, I added an EDIT. Have they stopped the bundling of Azure in renewals also?
Incorrect for two reasons:

1) They follow a different code path (which is what makes them a superior way to handle errors over return values).

2) They cannot be emulated by sum types when all you want to do is not handle the exception and let it bubble up the stack frames.
There are regulations, trademark law for one, the question is why don't enforcement teams act?

In the UK Trademark enforcement seems to be something only large companies get action on against very smalltime operators.

So, presumably it serves government aims not to enforce the laws, in this respect, that help citizens.
Not political activism, but Peter Thiel was also doing research into using the blood of the young to rejuvenate himself and prolong his life.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiel-wants-to...

(Wanting to live forever seems to be a not-uncommon desire among the hyper-rich. Larry Ellison's only known voluntary charitable contribution is similarly to a foundation he set up for researching the prolonging of life... specifically, his.)
Fyi, cheap iphone adapters cannot work. Apple makes their decryption chips (for anything audio, not sure video) very expensive. If the product is priced low enough, it cannot possibly have the chip, since it’s like $3 in bulk, which adds like $10 minimum to final price.
Amateur radio changed my life. In high school, I thought I was a nobody, maybe I wanted to be a truck driver, or a psychologist...who knows. Who cares? I was pretty depressed.

I'm 28 years old and I fucking love amateur radio.

I always had a curiosity about radio, being so interested in two-way radio that my parents had me tested for ASD. My mom had a police scanner and it had a button titled "HAM" [sic]. I found a repeater and no more than a few weeks later I was absolutely enthralled and was licensed in 2007.

I got a radio, an antenna, installed it, and I was absolutely hooked. It did not matter that the average age of a ham was around 50 or 60, and I was only 15. It was just so much fun and there was so much to do an learn using it. I studied for my General and got it a few months after my first Tech license. A few months after that, I got Extra. All the while, I ran a YouTube channel documenting my experiences.

I chose to go to Missouri S&T (formerly University of Missouri - Rolla) because they had a ham radio club (W0EEE). I declined a full ride to Truman State in Chem or CompSci, and went to S&T as undecided engineering. I naturally nestled into EE realizing a lot of the basic circuits knowledge was already covered under the Extra exam. Myself and one other ham became de-facto President and VP of the ham radio club, which we re-grew from near death.

I ended up working at an Electromagnetic Compatibility lab for a while, before having a co-op at the Very Large Array radio observatory in NM where I ran cabling, designed antennas, and worked on mitigation of RF interference. My manager specifically sought me out because I was a ham.

Acheving full time employment was also a no brainer. I applied to Rockwell Collins, Raytheon, Garmin, Boeing, Honeywell, Black & Veatch, maybe a few more, and had offers from everyone but Garmin (apparently proving my way around a smith chart dedicated to quiz grad students in the off-site interview, but choking at an unannounced op-amp circuit analysis by hand while two managers watched on-site wasn't good enough for them!). And now I design antennas for a living! All because of ham radio.

Ham radio never ceases to entertain me. There's science, there's experimentation, there's socialization, and there's public service. I'm a advocate for youth in ham radio, and I'm starting to get into things like ARRL reformation and other politics, since - like the author says - ham radio has a bad image. Through programs like YARC[0] and YOTA[1][2] I'm trying to help change that.

[0] https://yarc.world/
[1] https://yotaregion2.org/
[2] http://ham-yota.com/
Is using whatever mechanism is available to you, including company privileges, in order to organize perfected by law? As a customer support person, would you be able to add "you have the right to sue Google," simply because they did have the right, and I felt like it? Am I allowed to write a script that helps draft automated verbiage to assist you in suing Google?
History is repeating itself. Google+ was fixated on Facebook, and ...
My Logitech G700s has a AA NiMH battery in an easily replaceable door, no need to open the mouse.

The battery still charges over USB if you have the mouse wired, and switches to wireless when that's unplugged.

I like it a lot, if you run the battery down you can just pop a new one in and put the dead one in the charger. But I assume the one they're using here gives them higher capacity, so it's a trade-off.
Just imagine how much Facebook would pay up if a hacker had exfiltrated the database of all private Facebook messages, and was threatening to release them.
You're right, once corruption becomes pervasive enough, addressing it becomes way too boring and obvious. Better to do nothing.
Glob is great but on some OS (Linux maybe?) it doesn't guarantee maintaining the order of files. If order matters, it would make sense to sort the results prior to processing.
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I have started using Best Buy as well because of proximity. Their prices are very much on par with Amazon's and I can trust them to sell me real products.
Does Facebook have people manually reviewing and approving each ad? That doesn't seem feasible. Regardless it's not like the ads were overt:

> Posts with titles like “Our Votes Don’t Matter,” “Don’t Vote for Hillary Clinton” and “A Vote for Jill Stein is Not a Wasted Vote” were specifically aimed at black voters, the report says.

It does not seem outside the realm of reason that ads advocating for or against an individual candidate, or even questioning the legitimacy of the system would be legitimate Is there a good reason a reviewer should prohibit ads advocating against a candidate? I mean a reason other than "but I like that candidate".
I want unlock able scroll on the mx ergo.
Also worthy to note that Logitech has decent macOS support.
> It's up there to messing up your kids with homeschooling...

Presumptuous much? Have you met a wide range of homeschooled kids?
I always get a feeling articles like the OP (and there seem to be many) are pushing some kind of mysticism instead of clearly explaining...

Can anybody give an example of mathematics that mathematicians consider “true”, but which is not provable in ZFC?

If no such mathematics exist, then mathematics is essentially just a game of symbol manipulation, right?
Here in the DFW area, I can get same day delivery of some items from Best Buy. I bought my SSD on cyber-monday that way and had it the same day. You do have to check the box that says in-store items or similar. Can't remember the exact name, but that will filter out all of the marketplace items.
Perhaps it's a good idea to limit religious organizations to (monitored) operating costs and disallow them to become businesses?

I don't see this as a strike against religion but rather a return of religion to it's proper function: religion rather than business.

There are a lot of scams in religious organization and have been for some time. Removing some of the perverse incentives (i.e televangelists worth millions with private jets) may help with that and I don't think infringes on right to worship according to conscience in the least. As it sits now a lot of bad behavior gets a pass because "can't interfere with religion".
I don't think it was just security issues, but policy issues in general, so co-opting it was perfectly reasonable.
Point well taken... oh man, that's depressing, I did completely describe the Internet as a whole.
> We want to have confidence that the administrators who run the systems that access user data cannot abuse their powers.

So "Binary Authorization for Borg" is a defense against getting Snowdened.
I really love the MX vertical mouse. The scroll wheel is the only current bummer for me as well.
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> I understand that, I'm just saying that if your risk calculation concludes that LTS is less risky by default, then it's based on false assumptions, based on misunderstanding.

I agree with you - and I don't think LTS have less inherent risk. The distinguishing feature of LTS releases is the length of support - you can still release minor versions weekly, but still bless every 25th minor release as the LTS versions and it would work out the same because the users will know that version will get support for X years without full requalification.

You could very well be right about the 3rd-party patches/back-porting (I'll take your word for it, I'm now at the periphery of the JDK world), but their existence could be a sign of how Java users are desperately unprepared to support evergreen releases.
A writer hired to write the wording on Google's websites could submit a change that rot13s every word on Google's web properties. This would not be against the law, additionally it would be exactly what the employee was hired to do. But the employee should be fired all the same.
> Less than 48 hours ago, the cybercriminals behind the Maze Ransomware

I'd rather just call them "criminals".

The "cyber" prefix is generally unnecessary, and sometimes even misleading.
I still have a pair of G5 mice that I use at home and work. It’s good to see Logitech bringing back that design! Other than the MX Master 2S I carry around for mobile use, I’ve never had a mouse fit my grubby paws do perfectly.

Other than a cable replacement and a switch cleaning, both of those original G5’s are still perfectly operational after over a decade of regular use.
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I'm sympathetic to this. But the fact that it's a security tool being misused is what I think made for the very harsh reaction. Two scenarios:

A) Rogue employee messages a bunch of internal email lists about having the right to organize

B) Rogue employee configures a security extension to issue a popup saying "Happy Birthday Sundar!" every time an employee visits google.com on June 10.

I am confident that A) wouldn't result in any formal adverse action (they'd mostly get a pile of nasty responses about spamming internal lists), and I am confident that B) would at the least earn the employee a reprimand and plausibly get them fired.
Or Thiel is a malicious libertian and wants to tear our republic apart to rebuild it in his image
Do you have a description of how you made your own security and what it provides?
This is the primary reason why I sold my car and went carless the instant that was a feasible thing to do. If I should need to own a car in the future, it will be an older, pre-spying, one.
I agree the pay is competitive, you can usually get a solid offer - but what I'm highlighting is after the offer is signed, you're not really getting much else compared to other companies.

That's kinda the focus of my site (perks/benefits ontop of what you would normally get)
What do folks in Europe use instead of Amazon.de for computer parts for a few years old computers and accessories that are not the most common ones?
I guess everything because Parkinsons is a catastrophic illness from a quality of life perspective.
LogMeIn is a public company. Almost 90% of anyone who bought shares between mid-2016 and early 2019 probably saw a negative return from this because $86/share is still below the price it was at during that time.

If this was a private company/startup, of course you'd be laughing all the way to the bank. Not so if you were a public investor in LogMeIn. Far from it.
The trick is to not care.
Personally, I can't wait for the inevitable medical breakthroughs discovered through the service that we paid for, that GSK will sell back to us for thousands of dollars per treatment.

There's something so purely dystopian about paying a company to collect our genomic data, which then helps to create medical breakthroughs that none of us will be able to afford.
I think that's just half of it. Founders and CEOs get a lot of shit, but they're paid well for a good reason: they manage to sell and profit.

Take a successful factory, remove the officers and management, leave it to the assembly line workers - it's a good bet they will fail even if they have some cash to keep it going for a year.

And look at all the startups with insane $$ invested that failed.
I don't care if people sell clean, safe, reasonable things that are gleaned from a dumpster. That's waste reduction and a net good.

What I hate are all the low quality and fraudulent items on Amazon (It's not quite as bad as Ali Express, yet--Ali Express also happens to sell everything ever conceived and people generally accept that a certain portion of things are counterfeit, Amazon pretends to enforce quality.)

This is the opening that Sears should have been waiting for. They used to provide the service of selling a curated selection of pretty much anything you would need. Back in the day they had 3 of everything, you needed a widget, you could go to Sears by buy the "good", "better", or "best" version of that thing at a competitive price.

Sears, if it were managed worth a damn, could do that. They still have stores all over the place to serve as distributed warehouses, show-rooms and customer service centers.

Maybe Target will figure this out. I don't think Amazon will. The closest Amazon has come to addressing this is making their own house brand (a la Kenmore). Which is fine, I guess, if you don't have congress calling you a monopoly. If anything is going to bring Amazon down a peg, it is going to be the ingenuity of fraudulent sellers outstripping the ingenuity of their anti-fraud systems and policies.
But see, I've done my dream vacation several times. It means driving out into the Mojave Desert, by myself, and car camping. It basically costs the gas to get there and back.

Dropping $10K on a vacation without thinking about it? No, I'm not there. Taking the vacation I want without thinking about the cost? Easy - I just don't want that kind of vacation.
Sometimes it's worth running a project at a loss in exchange for other benefits, such as enterprises' trust that you will be a good product steward.

If they kill GCP, what CTO in their right mind would ever choose Google for a mission critical service?
I think if there's a money saving argument, you wouldn't need to put that in the union contract.

Companies will want to save money and you don't need to force them to save money.

It's clearly a "job saving" argument and not a "money saving" one.
Why is this up for a debate? Is it not profitable already?
The "curse" of being data driven without the right data or the broader picture. Netflix seems to be suffering from the same thing.

It's hard to capture long-term sentiment towards a product, so short term optimization end up dominating conversations.
OK, but from what I've read, it can still get online if there's an open WiFi AP within range.

You'd need to find the WiFi radio, and physically disable it.

Me, I just buy the largest gaming display that's available. And view videos stored locally. From DVDs or torrents. From a machine that has no internet access. Just ethernet LAN connectivity to an otherwise isolated machine, which is online only via nested VPN chains and Tor.
As someone else guessed, I'm near RTP. The triangle has companies like IBM, Red Hat, Cisco, and SAS. The focus here isn't just banking and finance.

I don't know what other places in the area pay but I only took a small pay cut when I moved here. Once you factor in the cost of living that pay cut works out to be a decent raise.
> The Perfect Cities. Without further ado, here are the 13 cities where the temperature is wonderful year round, in alphabetical order:

...snipped...

> Sydney, Australia

Tomorrow it'll be 40C in Sydney....?
Downside of such complicated mice with fancy circuit boards is that you can have issues like my s2 had, where the thumb button got stuck. This somehow caused a software lock, rendering the rest of the mouse unoperational; a nice 90$ paperweight. I don't mistreat my electronics either, it was not dropped or anything like that. This sort of stuff should not happen on such an expensive mouse. Coincidentally it happened 2 months after the warranty expired.
I think you can get from level 1 to level 4 just by being careful and wise. You might even get to level 5 by the time you die.

But level 6 will require taking risk and that risk paying off big-time. Usually it requires taking several risks. Jay-Z got from level 1 to level 6 by taking the risk of going public with his craft. He decided he would put in the work, make the connections, and not fear the rejections.

The reason entrepreneurs get rich is they take the risk.

There is some luck involved but most people (me included) aren't willing to risk their current level to level up.
Very true. Many countries are on their way to developing entire industries around tech. This was previously only exclusive to US, maybe Japan.

Some of those countries are attracting previously unheard-of talent and subsequent funding from the US. It's hard to imagine how future US startups can ever compete.
Walmart is the same marketplace and it's not like I shop there for "premium quality" but I still can't trust the stuff they send is legit.

Never thought I'd miss the old monopolistic, competition killing WalMart that raced towards the bottom...
Let’s take the raw numbers then. 4.8% compared to 47%.
In my opinion, it's just a consequence of the culture of stack ranking. The only thing that promotes you is if you deliver something. Not supporting something well. Not having an established, loyal customer base. Or, even if you provide good support/bug fixing. It's make something go public. Doesn't matter in what state. It's why I wasn't in the least shocked about Stadia's problems.
The new mx518 is not as good as the old one. It required some software that did not work properly on macs.
I've been quite pleased with the Azure stack myself. There is the issue of figuring out what the marketing team named the damned thing you are looking for, but I had the same problem with AWS.

I am focused primarily on .Net though, so your YMMV by a lot.
What do you mean by "someone who doesn't agree with her message"? You mean someone who believes that Googlers don't "have the right to participate in protected concerted activities"? That would just be ignorant of the law.
I have an MX master and now own two triathlons. I love them because one AA battery lasts months, it's bluetooth or can use the receiver which the mouse can store inside of it, and it supports three devices. All for $25. I pair it to my iPad and use it or at work for 8 hours straight. Definitely check it out since it's basically a baby MX master without the thumb scroll.
Shoot....Forget about this one...

But warranted, Google Fiber had never grown to Google Cloud's importance I would say
Google and I believe Facebook have uniform monthly vesting, so these figures are accurate for any amount of tenure.

TC is not computed using the total value of your grants, it’s based on the amount that will vest over the course of a year. Yes, that means there are engineers getting grants of $2m+ over four years (putting TC around $700k+)
+1 for Costco.
Amazon turning into Oracle is bad but it's a lot less disruptive to a company's operations than GCP shutting down.
It isn't just web sites. Many software repos still use http or native rsync. Some would argue that you validate the packages with GPG, but you would be amazed if you saw how many people install the GPG public key from the same mirror they download software from.
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Representatives don't write legislation, that's what their staff is for, and experience is a valuable assent in a staffer. The longer a poltician's term lasts, the more they trend towards being the governments representative to the people instead of the people's representative in government.
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There's no way for Google Cloud to achieve this. Even if Google does everything perfectly, both AWS and Azure are just too entrenched to be dethroned in such a short period of time.

Therefore, this story is almost equivalent to saying 'Google will ignore cloud from 2023 onward'. Were I ever to consider GCP, this alone would cause me to run far far away.

If Google is serious at all about cloud, it would issue a quick denial. If it does not, well, it would be evidence in favour of the story's credibility.
one day they will be the boss and when they're the boss they aren't going to want their exploited employees to ruin their bottom line.

Spoiler alert: they're never gonna be the boss. It's like that meme where people on the poverty line vote against their interests because one day they think they're going to be the billionaire.
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Riot seems like a good option these days.
Two things prevent me from using best buy (in Canada)

1. they too have a giant marketplace of who knows who

2. they require you to stay logged in to paypal if you want to use it for "convenience". The entire reason I use PP is to prevent sharing my payment data with yet another retailer and provide some isolation.

If I need something from them I just order to the store and pay then.
If the business model for a piece of software is ads I will not be using that software.
> I have this theory that the tactical essence of football-soccer is continuous-time chess

Heh, I've been called crazy by chess players for saying that out loud. Glad I'm not the only one.

I also think basketball/handball tactics are a lot like checkers.