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Many of you are thinking about this wrong.

In places that allow senior non-manager ICs, those ICs are determining what to do. The managers are figuring out who and when to do it, the ICs are going to figure out the details, tech ordering, research, etc.

Usually the way it works is I'll identify a large scale problem, work to quantify it, cost it out, work to find the manager who is most appropriate for it. Work with that management chain to further quantify cost and benefit of fixing the problem. We'll get high level resourcing and prioritization for the work. I'll get going on deeper research, role needs, design docs and v0 implementation. Manager will get going on hiring. At some point I'll swap from driving everything to doing, and just lob prioritized tasks to the managers. Essentially I'm working as a Product Manager and IC coder at this point, eg I'm saying what we should be doing (PM) and doing the work. However at this point the manager is actually setting sprint task level priorities for me. So weirdly the work goes PM (me) -> SDM (mgr) -> IC (Me). At this point the SDM will usually have hired some other devs or a PM and we just fit them into the flow. At a certain point I'm really just a Lead on the team while we groom up a permanent lead. Or if it's a longer project I'll stay in the Lead role for a year. The manager, PM and I are all working together. I don't have to manage anyone but I do a ton of mentoring and product work and communication.

They asked me a while back if I wanted to manage people (manager came from where everyone here seems to be coming from). But when we discussed it they didn't want to lose 30% of my time to management duties.

A highly effective manager will be able to delegate large parts of their perceived responsibility to others, which is how they get to 100% productivity. Same can happen for managers.

Some call it managing up.
This same scheme applies to any “charity” that does not overtly state 100% of their proceeds are donated. And it’s not limited to law enforcement associations. Those commercials you see on TV about starving children, abused animals, suffering refugees, etc. are all complicit. What really happens: executive level and staff salaries are set at the market level for the association. All donations go to cover these “costs” throughout the year. Whatever is left over from these “costs” actually gets donated to their target group. The donations usually equal about 10% or less of their received funds. Correlate the executives that run these to other donation groups and you’ll see a pattern of people running them. Unless 100% of the proceeds go toward the target group is clearly communicated, all you’re doing is paying someone’s salary to run a feel-good effort that actually contributes very little to their target. And I’m a cop. Do your research.
Facebook is the same. Transition to management, make the same pay per level. It's less about moving for money and more about moving to what skillset you prefer to use, which I really like.
One interesting theory of why a maximum speed of communication (speed of light) exists is that it allows simulating the universe in a distributed way, since it gives you a maximum effect range (light cone), thus you can shard your simulation (of course, you still need to sync neighbor shards).
List of probable truths when studying in Europe as an American at 18:

- You've never left home for more than a month.

- There will be few (if any) Americans in a European bachelor's program.

- There is a 6 to 9 hours timezone difference with home.

- You don't have an easy time getting information compared to with American universities.

- The country will not speak English (UK aside). I know they speak english in French and German unis but your landlord probably won't, nor your health insurer.

That's a massive list of stress-inducing elements you have to take into account. For a master/PhD the situation is totally different but it's still not that easy (source: did an international master programme).
I'm reminded of early Unix, with default permissions that made one's files public, in the spirit of sharing. Well before one could Google, I wanted good examples of TeX vitas, so I searched all unprotected files of every math department server I could access. Some people were horrified to learn that this was possible or that I had done this.

That most people do not choose 802.11w is a similar state of ignorance. Yes these are public broadcasts. The laws are substitutes for more thoughtful engineering.

We have little privacy on the internet; that ship has sailed, through similar ignorance. It's worth worrying about doorbells, but that's not the big picture.
Military is also a good option to college, especially if your specialty is a skilled trade. My brother did this straight out of high school. Spent a few years overseas and then eventually changed his specialty to biomedical equipment repair. When he left the service he made 60k/year and after 5 years he is at 125k/year. Also when you are in the service, you are getting paid and if you are overseas, all your bills are paid too.

He never had any student loans ever or school expenses. When he was young he just saved most of his money....most of which has doubled or tripled in value due to how good the stock market has been.
Not so recent, it's been a steady transition since the silliness under Major with the rebels over Maastricht. Labour were almost as split at the time.

My problem is they've become a party of international finance, hedge funds and so on. No longer is a conservative MP or Lord the former exec of a successful FTSE company, or something in the city, which of course is now mainly US. The policies benefit international finance not Britain and the British, candidates are selected accordingly. Rees Mogg being perfect example.

I can imagine a Churchill, Macmillan, Heath or even Heseltine or Thatcher putting through the environmental parts of Labour's manifesto -- that's good One Nation Conservatism without the parts remaking capitalism. No one since though. Thatcher fully believed the science, and made a UN speech in 89, and many others, calling for world climate action way beyond anything that's actually happened. Churchill did so much to create the European Court of Human rights and Convention.

The referendum campaign basically promised no deal was not possible, so yes they should deliver what was promised. Though allowing a referendum without supermajority so we're forever stuck at 50:50 was madness. Austerity was dogma from day one -- no one overspent, it was a global banking bubble, but gave an excuse to push libertarian shrinking of government. Yet QE was full on Keynes, just this time for the benefit of international finance, not the country. Every event kicks the fringe to the centre, and remakes the party a little further off centre.

That's my take. Internet politics is of course mostly futile, have a peaceful and prosperous New Year. :)
>> I'm 48, and I can't remember any other time where I've actually despaired about the future for my (step) kids, and where I've felt that the government really is out of control.

That is said by every generation. Every generation going back hundreds of years. In the 1950s, the glory time for today's elderly, comic books we the craze. A hundred years before that doctors would regularly tell people not to read as it could cause illness, especially in women. Some thought chess angered the blood. But they all drank and took opium with abandon. Today doctors tell kids to reduce screen time, while loading them up with ADHD meds. Nothing changes.

The definition of "old" is when you start lecturing on how young people were so much better in your generation. It's just nostalgia. Old people forget the evils of the past and see new evils everywhere in the present.
> Low-level languages are "close to the metal," whereas high-level languages are closer to how humans think.

Assembly instructions or the numbers they map aren't that hard to think about, and I prefer them to object hierarchies for example.
> There is a place for encouraging students to go to art school... the catch is that they need to have obvious signs of world class talent.

Maybe, but you have to be careful with this kind of thinking. I know a couple of really gifted guys with degrees from Berklee College of Music who still have student loans to pay off. The truth is, world class musicians working good jobs still take considerable time to pay off loans that big. It's not a high-paying profession.

There's a category of artist, the superstars, who don't have these sorts of problems but its population is vanishingly small.

On the other hand, the guys I'm talking about don't really question the value of their excellent education. It's not all about money for some people, which is good. It's just wise to know what you're getting into.
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I haven't dug into the data that deeply but my hunch is this is probably somewhere in the broadly average range of the distribution

Just for example:

> The most prominent example of the Comcast/FCC revolving door is former FCC commissioner and current Comcast lobbyist Meredith Baker.

> Baker, whose views tended to side with the industry even before she went to the FCC, was appointed to to her FCC position in July 2009 and stayed there for nearly two years, cutting her four-year term short in June 2011 to move to Comcast as its senior vice president of government affairs.

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/04/the-comcast-fcc-rev...
Oh, I see, that is different. Frankly I'm surprised this works even when placed immediately after root extraction, but if so it would certainly be more "natural" than titanium screws...
What's more plausible, the Soviets actually succeeded at such a complex project, and the US government suppressed it so effectively that after the collapse of the Soviet Union there was no evidence left whatsoever.

...or the whole thing was just propaganda in the first place (either Soviet to try claim weird science skills, or US to try claim the Soviets are crazy)?
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Instead of paying everyone a "guaranteed income" for doing nothing as some propose, one can cut taxes, reduce regulation, and sanction employers hiring illegal aliens, so that a strong economy will boost wages. The unemployment rate is at a 50-year low of 3.5%.
Well that holds even more wat material.

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I mentioned how it also cuts costs, so the revenue loss is compensated.
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Slide rules are very limited computers though. They mostly let you do fairly rapid multiplication and division up to limited precision. Also look up trig values and logs (obviously). Probably a few other things depending on the model and its scales.

But really the only thing it buys you is some speed over just pen and paper. (At least assuming you have trig, log, and probably some other tables from a standard math handbook. Which could presumably be derived in a manner I don't recall off the top of my head but likely very painfully.)
Management doesn’t see it that way. They want new features and won’t pay a lot of money for somebody to refactor code that “works”.

Heck, even other devs don’t see technical debt as problem. It’s more of a political problem, less technical.
I struggled with college and don't know if I'll be returning... I made it over a third of the way to a CS degree but had to take a break from school.

I got a job while in college as a programmer - and work full time making around the 50k range. I feel that I self taught myself the necessary technical skills for my job, and that the biggest places for self improvement aren't acedimic but business/relationship related.

I have less then 5k in school debt left, and I already have the job I wanted, my only fear is when I eventually look for a new job, how well they'll consider me without a degree. I strongly feel my technical skills are at least up to par, meanwhile in school I watched classmates copy answers off YouTube...
The "dose" argument in the article is also rather unconvincing, and the examples used show this. I suppose this is a topic where I know something (capitalism and socialism). The author writes:

> Capitalism is enormously productive but has many limitations. Some socialist institutions actually work well in a capitalist economy, but pure socialism hasn’t tended to work at all.

But this is actually a counter-example. Most socialists (and certainly all of the originators and main theorists) would contend that socialism represents a pure qualitative break with capitalism, that socialism is at odds with capitalism in many ways (law of value, commodity production, class society) and that to speak of implementing "socialist policies" is worse than meaningless, it is a misunderstanding. They have some good reasons to say that socialism represents such a qualitative break with capitalism.

So from my point of view, you can start out thinking "gray" (most people uninformed on the scholarly work on the difference between capitalism and socialism take the point of view of the article) but when you look further, you actually see that it's black and white.

This example, at least, undermined the author's point. "Quantitative scale-based thinking" means that quality rarely enters the mix (except, perplexingly, in the example that "trying heroin once is bad"). Quantitative thinking is not always a perfect fit, because (1) it assumes the object under investigation is quantifiable, (2) it assumes the object is mathematically and formal-logically comparable, (3) quantitative models often simplify beyond how a qualitative model would (as an example, Samuelson's "commodity 1" and "commodity 2", or the presumption that inputs=outputs in Steedman).

Qualitative and quantitative thinking are both important, and the preference for quantitative over qualitative has become increasingly common; as a famous German economist once pointed out (in the criticism of Bentham's utilitarianism), quality logically preceeds quantity. If you don't know what you're talking about, its measurement will be a lot more difficult. This is the same argument levelled at Ricardo (the confusion of form, substance and magnitude into one monstrous mess).
There are definitely strong network effects at play - people want to be able to watch and talk about the same shows as their friends and family.
Every time someone complains about Apple banning something, there is a huge chorus of people saying that a law mandating sideloading will solve the problem.

It seems like the Android case shows that users really don’t care.
This doen’t seem to be particularly new or specific to Netflix. When I am reading a catchy book at night, I often read more chapters than I intended to, occasionally until deep in the night.
^ Yep!

I'm a manager and I have a member of my team that does exactly this. They have built tools and process that has allowed everyone else to be more efficient. Anyone on my team can, but they gravitate towards it. It's up to a manager to make sure they are paid appropriately and make sure that they are given space to actually do this type of work.
Their machine learning algorithm is probably optimized to reduce churn and keep subscribers at any cost.

By making people search and find content, there might be some subconscious effect on people that makes them think the service has more value. Tricking people subconsciously means less cancelled subscriptions.

What's scary is that all these dark patterns Netflix and other tech companies are using are completely obfuscated. No one really understands what's going on because the patterns are part of some complex neural network. In the past they would have been shamed publicly for stuff like this, but now it's only 20% of their users who have such-and-such psychological profile can be exploited this way, while others can be exploited another way and no one knows what's happening.

My theory is the more powerful AI becomes, the more it will exploit human psychology until everything sucks. Everyone will have the overwhelming urge to keep spending money while being miserable because that's the optimal customer according to the AI.
I can't tell you how many times I've tried to make dal makhani like Moti Mahal (Deluxe) does and it always comes out wrong. Definitely a science (there are a lot of ingredients that must emulsify just so, the spices must retain their bite, it must simmer and reduce for hours, etc.), and it's ridiculous how many different "dal makhani" recipes there are and they almost never taste remotely alike.
Technical debt is like real debt. You do it because you want to grow the business, and you can delay it as long as you can. Paying the debt down doesnt make the business grow.
> 3) promote Netflix original content

You have no idea how much I prefer this over the dominant competing model which is "promote content that costs extra because it is not actually included in the subscription I already pay".

Netflix at least is trying to make me satisfied with the content available, instead of making me yearn for more in order to upsell.
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Generally is say the post-secondary education institution in the U.S. is riding on the laurels of decades past. College use to have a higher bar to entry - standards were higher and the commitment was stronger, and kids of college age were on average more mature. Now that the experience has been wholly commercialized, children who have no business in higher learning are encouraged by the secondary effects of an at one time well meaning propaganda campaign to take on debts they are unlikely to benefit from even in majors which are clearly useless to both individuals and society at large.
> I'll also note that the "transmitted instantly" part depends on your interpretation of quantum physics.

Ok, the way I interpret it is that entangled particles are like 2 hard boiled eggs that have collided.

It is well known that if you roll 2 hardboiled eggs into each other, only one will crack.

So basically, if I roll two hardboiled eggs into each other and then hide them in paper bags, the eggs are now "entangled" and if I separate the bags by 1 million miles, I can observe the state of my egg and know instantly what the state of the other egg is.

For example, if I peer into my bag and see my egg is not cracked, I know that the other egg is indeed cracked! However, if I change the state of my egg (crack it) then obviously nothing happens to the other egg because the eggs are no longer "entangled".

There is no "instant transmission" happening here. All the properties of the eggs were set in stone the moment the eggs collided and thus it doesn't matter how far away you move them because the "entanglement" (collision) event already happened.

This is not a very useful property of hardboiled eggs and so I fail to see how this could be useful by scaling down the eggs to photons.
I never understand the complaint of a small library for Netflix... there are way more things to watch than I have time for. More things are coming out than I can watch.

Who are these people who watch so much stuff they run out of things to watch.
Ehh, a software engineer is a programmer. The name evolved, but I don't think there is any organization that has software engineering and programming roles separated.
how about putting together a realistic budget for after they graduate? go tour some apartments and ask them to pick one they could see themselves living in. build a budget around the rent for that place, estimated utilities, going out with friends, etc. also add the monthly loan payment for the art school they want to go to. then compare that against typical monthly take-home pay for someone in their desired field and start cutting things until they can break even. $30-40k annual income can sound like a lot to a high school student until you start breaking it down month by month and force them to confront how expensive things are and the lifestyle sacrifices they will have to make.
$2/mo is absolutely trivial for the market that this app will target.
Watch out for bikes and pedestrians please. Few people expect a car (especially on the other side of the street/lane) to drift by a space then reverse into it after passing it by.
Look, you started this by dismissing AirPods owners’ preferences as being primarily about signaling wealth. Frankly, most people find accusations like that pretty insulting.
I going with experience, yes. Experience with multiple cops from different departments in different cities. Cops have conditioned me to be aware of them and be cautious. You can blame me - I will say that I've never been convicted or even arrested, just harassed. Again, respect is a two-way street. When cops stop acting like Eric Cartman maybe I'll start respecting them.
Apple News was already flakey and unreliable in the sources (websites) it would allow to be added. With its highly limited geographical availability (years after launching) and its problematic focus on News+, I switched back to a plain RSS Reader to follow specific sites.

Apple News seems like a niche product with hardly any technical effort put into it. In comparison, Google News, with its ads, generally looks like a more comprehensive choice for news. Not to mention it’s also “free” (of course, it never allowed, AFAIK, adding RSS feeds from any site).
In Washington state you can even get special license plates that say "law enforcement memorial" for an annual fee, presumably for the same purpose.
I was tempted to get these for my car+motorcycle but then I remembered I haven't gotten pulled over in 20 years so I probably don't need it.
what if the truth we believe is very well "inception-able"? Can we distinguish ideas planted by others(religion, government, pop cultures, movies etc)from our own, let alone "truth" from those AI who "study/spy" on our thoughts to better "serve/enslave" us?
That wouldn't work because people need satisfying points along the way.

Even for TV shows with plots spread over a season, each episode has an arc of an intro that hooks you, development, and then a satisfying conclusion. And we can only hold so many plot details in our head at once, which is why movies and plays generally aren't longer than 2 hours and change.

A 9-12 hr megamovie would be deeply unsatisfying to watch, without the carefully structured resolutions along the way. You need satisfying "stopping points" along the way where a few things get resolved but a few more things keep you watching the next night.

It's the same way fiction books need chapters and symphonies need movements. Episodes are a basic creative organizational principle.
> Walker will move on to a position in industry, though a DARPA spokesman did not reveal where.

Any ideas as to where? Lockheed, Palantir, Google?
You're over-stretching the metaphor at that point.

"Black and white" can just as easily be "blue and red" thinking. Any binary choice works. "Gray" is just supposed to represent seeing things in a more analog fashion. You could replace it with "purple".

The problem arises when all you do is point out the gradients rather than make a decision based on the information given.

So the idea isn't to "introduce more colors" but to finally make a decision. "Yes, this is grey. But it's a really, really, really dark grey. It's mostly black with a tiny bit of white."

A good live example is gambling. You're often forced to make decisions based on incomplete information where every decision has some upside and some downside. You can't sit there hemming and hawing.
I don’t know about the head role specifically, but DARPA generally has short tenures by design.

Each DARPA project lasts two years (with possibility of extension). So a typical DARPA program manager will work in that role for just a couple years before returning to industry.