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> "Garry, "what are you doing at Microsoft? "You're wasting your time."

> "Garry, I'm so sure this is the right thing for you, "you need to quit your job right now."

How much does Pieter know the OP at the time? I'd probably be very wary working with someone with such a pitch.
This seemed like a likely outcome when he was stripped of his chairman role, the board needed a sacrificial lamb and he was it. Given the nytimes article yesterday the board deciding to cut ties during the week of Christmas is very telling. Muilenburg was not the CEO during the 737 MAX initial approval and served as the president for the defense side of Boeing, he was dealt a bad hand. However, the ensuring crisis showed he was not a crisis manager and had difficulties navigating the PR crisis that followed. But, the take home from all of this is that the brand took a big hit to its reputation.
Studying with veterans is an incredible experience. I'm lucky that my school (Columbia) has a very large undergraduate vet population. It adds a dimension of experiential diversity that many colleges fail to capture, and makes real what are normally distant and easy to abstract away geopolitical decisions, like deploying troops in Afghanistan. I hope more universities follow Yale and Columbia in creating spaces for returning serviceman to integrate into collegiate life - it's good for all of us.
That's a bit of a broad generalization. As with all history it doesn't hold up under scrutiny.

In the 1200s, the empire split into 3 warring countries. The one that took Constantinople was considered the continuation of the Byzantine empire, but maybe it's more correct to think of it as a spiritual successor, than an actual unbroken reign of a single nation.

Which would put it at less than 1000 years of rule. So "a few hundred years" would still be an accurate upper bound.
The chairman was also recently appointed.
I am sure you will when you will end up working in a huge organization with intricated and heterogeneous projects/teams interdependencies.

You will soon experience:

- dependencies hell due to transitive and conflicting dependencies

- one back-incompatible change in some obscure library end up breaking some other unknown service that happens to transitively depend and it

- the entire codebase will become a mess due to inconsistent code styles and formatting because hey we are developers and we can never agree on anything. Thus each team lead will have its own opinion

- each team will have to maintain its own CI/CD jobs

- heterogeneous builds: maven, node, sbt, webpack, etc ...

the list goes on ...

All (or most of) this mess is solved by centralizing the codebase in a monorepo.
Yes but the test was not supposed to be basic orbital insertion, it was supposed to be ISS rendezvous.
> The net result is a Bazel (and Blaze) that are less burdened by the baggage of legacy, but the cost is a faster treadmill to keep pace with changes.

(I work on Bazel.)

This is accurate. A few of the biggest breaking change themes are:

1) Converting functionality linked within the Bazel binary into the extensibility mechanism implemented in Starlark. An example includes converting the native Java, C++, Android, Python, Protobuf, Obj-C and packaging rules into rules_java, rules_cc, etc. Many languages now are already implemented exclusively in Starlark. See rules_scala, rules_rust, rules_go and rules_haskell.

2) Starlark and Build API cleanups that accumulated over organic growth and development within Google for the past decade.

3) New build system features to support seamless integration with other build systems and package managers.
Perhaps ironically, my kids called around to find a theater that didn't have the patch yet. Apparently their only interest in this stinker was seeing the goofs...
320 g's? Wikipedia says 5.5 cgs which is 0.055 m/s^2 - much lower than Earth's.. I think.
I"m not completely sure that's the case (and to be fair, I've not been following Starliner closely, so could well be wrong).

There are tests to prove out ideas during the course of development, but then there are tests which would perhaps be more accurately called "demonstrations"; where you're not trying to find flaws and refine your designs, but rather prove that you're [insert thing-name you're proving here] actually works the way you are representing it to work.

I understood this test to be more in the demonstration category, where Boeing would/should have had very high confidence, but they needed to prove to NASA that their spacecraft worked as advertised. If that's true, it was almost more a test on how much NASA should trust the confidence of the Boeing team than it was a test engineering and manufacture.

If that wasn't the character of the test, then I apologize for the distraction.
Call to the next village? Really?

Unless you were having that conversation two decades ago, they 100% were just having you on.
You sell yourself short - I didn't see anything on the wiki page that enlightened me more than your summary did.

Maybe I should track down that forum, but I suspect the experience would be akin to more than one experience I've had chatting with philosophers (one of which I am not, though I guess I've been exposed to a bit through one channel or another) where I try to draw something useful out of the discussion only to be told this isn't what it's about. "It's brave of you to try and summarize" were the words of one colleague giving a seminar at the time! Maybe I just don't get it, or maybe it's they who don't get it, but it seems beyond me to figure out which. Maybe this is where I get a bit middle aged and intolerant and decide that further effort on that part isn't a good use of my time, and if a philosophy isn't useful for something (including the valid use of just being an aesthetically pleasing thing to consider) then I don't have a lot of time for it. In terms of aesthetics you have helped me to see some more in ZAMM than before, though.

On my first reading of ZAMM the real epiphany moment was where he described the workings of a motorcycle then said "... one thing classical types won't notice about this is that it's really, really, boring" or words to that effect. True. I identify strongly with the classical worldview but also with all the "groovy" phenomena on the other side of the divide which I think are perfectly explainable classically it's just that most people fail to do so.

If you haven't come across Sheldrake before you may enjoy The New Science of Life. I may not endorse his conclusions but can heartily recommend his exploration of ideas.
After SpaceX's failures, lots of people were saying things like "This is why they test— if you're not occassionally failing, you're not pushing the limits enough".

I would guess that at least in part the difference in attitudes is because SpaceX is considered more startup-y and Boeing is more associated with the "failure is not an option" ethos.
This is such a weird post. Big fan of Garry, but I don't agree with most of this.

1. Just because it turned out that you would have made $200mm doesn't make it a mistake. If anything, that outsized return proves just how rare this kind of outcome is. If you look at the YC startups graduating every year, maybe 1 will ever generate $20mm for an early employee, let alone $200mm. Joining a new startup for that kind of outcome is stupid, even (especially?) if the founder is a big personality.

2. What is the bizarre pie chart in the middle of this post supposed to show? I'm very skeptical that it's actually based on data of any kind.

3. What is the line about it being hard to believe that any company other than Google is going to make money? Apple and Microsoft both earn more than Google, don't they?

Bottom line, if you care about comp, you should know that no early stage startup of any kind offers an expected outcome remotely close to the big tech companies. Yeah, you might make a few million after working your ass off for many years. But realistically, you won't. But you would make close to that (or more) if you worked for the big tech companies for those same number of years, at a much lower risk.

If you want to do the startup thing, do it as a founder, not an employee. Start with 30-100% of the equity, not 1% or 2%.

Again, I'm a fan of Garry's, but I'm very skeptical of these posts by VCs trying to convince you it's a good idea to work at an early stage startup. Startups are great for them since they have a whole portfolio of companies to spread their risk across, but it's a shit deal for employees if you care much about comp. I don't envy the hassle of trying to hire at a startup when big tech companies literally pay 2-3x as more, but that's where we are.

EDIT: apparently the graph I referenced in #2 is showing that the top 5 companies in the S&P500 (as of sometime back in 2018) are equal in market cap to the bottom 282: https://www.newworldadvisors.com/post/the-role-of-private-ma...

Interesting, I guess, but pretty useless stat for the topic of this post. It also ignores about 200 companies in the middle that have huge market caps as well. Like Visa or Walmart or Disney. More here: https://disfold.com/top-us-companies-sp500/
Four healthy lifestyle for am adult
1 Exercise is an activity that enhances and maintain physical fitness, overall health and the total wellness of the body. It is performed for different purposes such as regulating body posture, weight loss, improving health, preventing aging etc. Keeping up with daily and regular exercise keeps you a mile away from visiting the doctor often.
2. Reduce Sugar And Salt Intake Level: High intake of salt can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and can also result in high blood pressure. Even though salt is rich in calcium but a considerable amount is best required for proper intake. Meanwhile, sugar is a source of energy to the body but they are best enjoyed in moderation. High intake of sugar can result to body fast and even diabetes.
3. Eat Right Portion Of Food Regularly: Eating the right proportion of food that contains balanced diets regularly is the best formula for a healthy lifestyle. The quantity of food we consume isn't what matters, the real deal is eating food that are quality and rich in nutrients. Monitoring the size of food we eat daily helps us not to consume too much calories.
4. Maintain A Healthy Body Size & Weight: Excess body weight comes from the type of food we eat regularly, foods like junks, ice creams, yogurts, chocolates etc are foods that are rich in sugar and always result to overweight including diseases like diabetes heart diseases, and cancer. Avoiding such foods gives you a more healthy lifestyle.
5. Drink Plenty Of Water: Water is the best source of life to every living creatures especially human. Adults should drink a considerable amount of water up to 1.5 litres daily or even more depending on how hot the weather is or how active they get on daily activities .
I will fly on it. It will have gotten more scrutiny than other planes.
I think you're right about this.

In fact, I think the API ecosystem would be better served by trying to take inspiration from design teams to provide more standardized, compliant, and good-looking interfaces.
The fact that we use intuition in choice and not some formal rational system seems orthogonal to whether we're making choices or only experience an illusion of choice.

Legally determinism is rejected out of hand, interpersonally we assume that individuals bear responsibility for their choices, it's only in some abstruse metaphysical sense that determinism means anything, and there it's largely meaningless.
Anyone that knows better: why is the share price for BA 2.75% up?
This can be trivially achieved by moving the dictionary pointer and reserving some space on the heap.
"to Notepad adding itself to the Context Menu as an "open with Notepad" item"

I believe it's the job of Shell API, not NTFS filters.
It’s not semantics. I’m trying to understand what OP means by “real food,” because I suspect he’s peddling nature woo.[1] Heavily processed food, like sausages and cured meats, have been a basic part of the human diet for millennia.

[1] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nature_woo
I was talking with an engineer who saw two people burn out over Bazel, though the specific gripe was with Scala support. I'd expect first-class languages at Google (C++, Java, Python, Go) to get better support.
I wonder whether people think they're aiding communication with it.
I really hate speeches like that. They are always told by one permile (or even less) of people that succeeded. The voice of all those that have lost are never heard. Same as blockchains, there are a few very loud people explaining how easy is to get rich, while those who gave them their money are rarely heard. I would laugh if it wouldnt be sad.

An anecdote (just a detail, I am developer for almost 30 years, I know the industry from downside up), a month or two back, two greenhorns were fanatically explaining me, how they were on a talk of X billionaire that told them it was never so easy to be a billionaire as right now. You only need a 2k laptop. I laughed on inside, but today kids really believe stories like that. Sure, gauss will do its game and a few will get filthy rich. But lottery seems a better game to me.
There is a medium-high probability of what you mentioned. But for many, it's about having a (tiny) shot at changing the world. It can be a thrill.

You are also a bigger fish in a small pond - more responsibility, no bureaucracy. And usually the pay is enough to live modestly on.
Let me modify my previous statement.

You can only be sure that sausages are "real food", if you make it yourself at home using the raw ingredients. Otherwise, no idea.
Not to mention it's 1% of a $20b company that has yet to go public and seems intent on staying private.
>Most European and U.S. consultants/business people that I met basically treated Africa as a lesser continent to be exploited.

Not just Africa. For US/Western Europe even their close Eastern European neighbors are seen as a lesser continent to be exploited.

An Austrian colleague kept boasting how his dad made a fortune buying illegally chopped wood from Ukraine.

That pretty much sums up how most of the western countries are wealthy today, by exploiting less fortunate countries.

Like you said, it's a modern form of colonialism except it's done with money instead of bullets.
> I was young and wanted to work on problems I thought would have high impact, shit they did have large impact.

I read something to the effect that post-WWII, the British government decided the future was in three technologies: nuclear power, aviation, and computers. So they set out to make sure the UK took its rightful place as master of the future, slanting policy heavily towards those ideas.

And wow, they were three for three on predictions. But somehow the place of the UK in those technologies isn't quite what they would have hoped.
Google has started asking me how crowded the bus is so I guess this is coming.

In London you can pretty much choose a slower or cheaper route and it will be less busy. The fastest Tube lines attract more journeys.
How do you measure input latency?
Then you just answered your own question if sausage is real food... so why are you asking?

But if you want to talk about curing meats, that's a fun topic. The ones my fam makes are way tastier than Jimmy Dean's
> Why not change the training data to reflect an equal amount of the population? Officially the US has six “races” according to the Census Bureau. So, another option is to make each race ~16% of the training data.

The difficulty with this is that you commonly don't have any control over the training data. Someone else collected it and you can use it but you can't choose what's in it.

And in some cases you already have census-level data, which means you couldn't even increase the number of people with lower representation in the data set by collecting more data, because there are no such people not already in the data set. The only way to have equal representation would be to throw out data you do have on the groups with higher representation. Which is obviously objectionable because we need to be improving accuracy for the group with lower accuracy (if we can), not reducing accuracy for the group with greater accuracy just to make the numbers the same.
Your post How to Pick a Good Monitor for Software Development was really helpful when I was upgrading my home office this fall. Thank you, and anyone else who hasn't specced out a monitor in a while might find it helpful as well:

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/how-to-pick-a-good-monitor-fo...
I cannot imagine anything more horrifying than (my own) immortality, in this life or beyond.

Death is the only form of lasting peace that we can realistically hope for.
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Asian school tend to have super high workloads even during summer holidays they give you work to work over your Holiday. The pressure is immense as they rate you from first to last, and parents do not like their kids to be in the last 75%, let alone last. They see it as a disgrace to the family. Sadly someone’s got to be back there. The pressure is immense. This is just a single point amongst others I don’t have time to type
I'm quite surprised to hear this.

When I was finishing up school (2013), our professor had worked out an agreement with the two congressional campaigns to allow our class to volunteer on both sides of the aisle. At that time, Republican data might as well have been non-existent when compared to the Democratic Votebuilder system.
I don't work for free.
It is fully hydrogenated.

You can read the ingredients on their website[1]. While it's not the healthiest fat for a typical Western diet, it contains zero trans fat(partially hydrogenated), which is the only truly harmful fat. Trans fat is pretty much dangerous in any quantity and directly correlates to an increase in cardiovascular events.

Artificially added Trans fat was banned in the US in 2018.

1. https://www.crisco.com/products/vegetable-shortening/all-veg...
> statistically unlikely to pay off

> probabilities involved with your decision

While this is a good general approach to life IMHO as well — if you mean "be rational, not just emotional" and "work on your cognitive biases, seek objectivity" — it might also prove terribly counterproductive in this context.

It would take a book or five but briefly:

- you just can't use statistics when they say "95% fail", otherwise you just don't do startups, ever. With that mindset, joining an established company is more likely to "succeed" for you and maximize serenity.

- another stat for you: most entrepreneurs fail "about twice" before making it, i.e. you'll probably fail 1-3 times for sure before entering the 5% of those who create a profitable business. Trick #1, thus: you can roll the dice several times (consider 2-5 years per "real try").

- most valuable ideas were either not identified (rarely) or not well executed (often) before someone eventually nails a product. You thus iterate quickly on the market (MVP, feedback, lean cycles, etc) to find your best fit curve, to hone in on the product that works. Chances are you'll find a local minimum, not "the best", you'll pivot, you'll reconsider, you'll maybe focus entirely on a subsystem, a 'feature' become 'product' — think how Docker, the company, appeared after the same name product.

The reality is that a "fast scaling startup" a la California is rare and a moonshot most often — unicorns and all that — but a diligently conducted, ground, sustained effort to make a business growing organically to reach sustainability for you and a few others in 2-5 years is a realistic goal (but all things considered, e.g. probably not on your first try, likely 10 years after you began for the first time).

I don't want to claim that it's easy to create a business, it's by far harder than working the jobs in most cases; but SMBs make up anywhere from 80 to 90% of our economies, they're the real bread and butter of our collective wealth, and these 'small' entrepreneurs are our true heroes. Not many of them make it big, and that's the 'gamble' you speak of, but it's not the only way, nor is it at all required to go down that path.
By spending VC capital.
Because I wasn't aware of it. If possible I don't want to support google in any way - first or second hand.
This is the social value that we used to get from churches, fraternal organizations, bowling leagues, block parties....
Are you sure that relationship holds true?

I've talked to more ordinary college students and they're pretty reasonable, normal people too.

Perhaps what's more likely is a tiny fraction of toxic people who use the social justice toolbox illegitimately are amplified disproportionately.

The world has always had toxic annoying people. There's always been that lady at church that pretends to be into Jesus but secretly just likes to dominate and bully others. Most people you meet though are pretty reasonable and nice.

Try to see the humanity in people who aren't like you.
Seconded. Any org with less than a few 100 engineers (and many with that many and more) would do better to stay away from this. I've had the dubious honor of using it for one project and to me the slogan is 'tools should work, not require attention', rather than the opposite. Bazel will require a lot of your attention and for smaller companies that could easily be a big percentage of their available capacity.

For very large organizations with the capability of assigning one or more teams to tooling it may very well be the right choice.
I just cringed at the thought of some BigCo software company project management tracking obsessive approach being pigeonholed onto a startup. Or the various other ‘processes’ that built up continually over the years at BigCo to minimize any sort of risk at the expense of speed and flexibility.

The bigger benefit is working with really smart people. I think you’re over valuing the utility of a lot of the stuff that goes on at bigger firms, mostly out of necessity but also many times due to managers trying to justify their own existence in the company so they create ‘processes’. But also just merely the scale of the operation where highly automated fancy systems would be a complete waste of time for a startup with a small team and a short run way.
It gives you that illusion; it doesn't solve versioning and deployment orders, and I'd argue that that's the harder part of changes across projects. Polyrepos make messy things...messy.
It took me a good number of years to realize that working for startups cost me years of being underpaid, working long hours and no real benefits in the end. I joined a corporation a couple of months ago and now I'm getting twice as much in compensation, plus financial incentives to actually stick around for a longer time. Survivorship bias is real.
Does the global economy really need passenger planes? Tourism economies, sure, but I would guess most of the economy is dependent on trains, trucks and ships?
On the bright side you didn't have to associate with Peter Thiel or Palantir.
I managed to get a refined version of the comment I didn't understand. The refinement helped me understand it, so I'm happy.
I wouldn’t underestimate the political value of a satellite launch. There is a lot of propaganda value, both domestically and internationally, to entering the “club” of space-faring nations. Not to be crass, but “launch a satellite” is literally an achievement in the Civilization games. The very act of launching it means something, even if only symbolic.
If it's a late night flight with not enough people filling the plane, you can bet your fucking ass Delta will cancel that shit and say "see you at 6am!!!"
I'm more inclined to spend money on a product that goes out of their way to implement Apple Sign In because I know they're catering to me. It's not going to be the only thing that goes into the equation, but if I have a choice between two equals it can tip the balance.