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> write good code within the constraints of a fast paced business environment [...] It’s not always vital to the business to have a good code base.

You're on the edge of contradicting yourself.

If the business environment is fast paced, ie your development process for ingesting features and specifying behavior is ad hoc, ("we are agile/do scrum, except we service requests from customers immediately as they come in instead of waiting until the next sprint") it's absolutely vital to the business to have a good code base.

Being able to make rapid changes without breaking everything requires a good code base. If your code base is full of landmines, you necessarily cannot send an average coder out to implement some average feature, because they'll necessarily have to (re-)teach themselves about half the idiosyncrasies of the codebase before they can do anything.

It's fine to have a shitty code base if your business environment moves stodgingly. ("You want a new form in the UI? OK great! We need a scope of work, a formal specification, we will charge you by the hour, you will need to pay us to recertify the entire product. Let's set up a meeting with contracting and legal next quarter to iron out the details.")

In my experience, the people who implement features quickly in a shitty codebases do so by breaking stuff in non obvious ways. This includes myself. This is fine for my organization because we only ship once every six months, and we only ship anything after two months of exhaustive manual testing. If the organization just decided, "we're a fast paced organization now, now we ship every two weeks" we'd lose all our customers fairly quickly as a result of the precipitous decline of the quality of our product.

I suppose fast paced business environment+shitty codebase is also ok if the goal is just to sell the company as soon as possible. But that's a personal objective, (and a selfish one) not a business objective.
If you're living in Denver, next time you're in the DTC on Temple Drive (Union Ave) look up and you'll see the fishing line running over the road between two light poles. This line forms one of four eruvin in Denver. http://denvereruv.com/denver-eruv-map
Are you sure it's colonial era law? Elsewhere in the world colonial era law ensured public access up to the high tide line.
Ah, `brew install sdl2` fixed it
He's rich. Someone will find an excuse to sue him, public easement or not. (Not saying they'll win, but they will sue.)

I actually not on Khosla's side of this issue, but in the current lawsuit-as-lottery-ticket climate, liability concerns are in fact a reasonable issue.
If this is a public right of way, then doesn't it take just a single surfer to come along and improve the right of way by clearing obstructions? A cordless sawzall is like $100, and bolt cutters are much less.

They'd likely end up receiving a SLAPP by Khosla, but surely there would be some judgement-proof surfer willing to shoulder the long tail risk, and plenty of people willing to pay for the legal defense.
Under the terms of the agreement Vinod “gatekeeper” Khosla, will maintain ownership of the newly established Martins Beach Surfing Club House and will be allowed to leave his board and wetsuit on the floor without penalty. The Friends of Martins Beach agree to release Khosla from all gatekeeping shifts, provided that he learns to surf and chill. Free surf lessons for life will be provided to Vinod “dude” Khosla as compensation for Club House use by the public. Drinks will be available, for a fee, to guests over the legal drinking age. Other fees may also apply.

Done.
This is a pretty good roundup of the topic.
http://stage.mvmagazine.com/news/2007/07/01/private-beaches
You get up to 200 books at LibraryThing for free, then it's either a $10/yr or $25/once for life. If you're using the service to that degree (>200 books) then you know the value of the service and should be willing to pay a little in return. TANSTAAFL
Whereas in EU the retirement contribution is already done before the 80k euro. Actually, MANY other contributions will happen before that 80k EUR.

Exactly same thing is true in the US. 401k is on top of Social Security retirement benefits. Employees pay 6.2% of their salary (up to $127,000 cap) into Social Security, and the employers pay matching 6.2% on top of the gross salary. The 401k is in addition to Social Security benefits, and the Social Security benefits are already higher than the French retirement benefits.
This SMBC explains it as well as anything I've come across.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-04-07
Moving to a major city is an obvious one. They are the most socio-economically and ethnically diverse places.
You create your own customized identity to avoid being unique? Seems unique in itself.
Thanks!

The secret is that most APIs that accept event data are pretty much identical. They have some method or endpoint where you send a JSON dictionary of properties. Once we had had the core event processing down, it wasn't hard to quickly add a lot of integrations.
The Optane SSDs do quite well on any random access benchmarks; they are kind of specialised for it. For sequential access however, high-end prosumer SSDs like the Samsung 970 Pro beat the Optanes.
Wow, what is it with anti-social people starting social networks? I long ago lost track of my collection of ridiculous quotes from the Friendster guy. But I still remember him being outraged that people were using it wrong by creating profiles for abstract things they loved (cities, parks, stores, brands) and then friending them. Like, buddy, when your users find new ways to use your product, run with it. Instead, he just got big mad and banned a lot of people.

Looking back, Friendster strikes me as the single biggest missed opportunity of that decade. He had a two-year lead on Facebook. In a network-effect business! But through careful focus and diligent effort, he managed to blow it.
The biggest flaw is that it makes taking new dependencies easy. I would prefer that it be hard, like in C++, so people think before doing it.

The second biggest flaw is that it couples package management to a programming language, despite those being almost completely unrelated concerns.
so you didn't have a word near penultimate and then pick some letters from it? It's really just open-ended what the users should choose? That does make it a lot harder...
> California beaches have been public property since 1976.

Wow, how did it take the public so long to wake up? I thought the default was that it was public property in most places on earth.
Roku is frequently derided for being spyware here, and CCC is full of privacy aware hackers. I would have thought the crossover of people interested in CCC and Roku TV subscribers would be fairly low.
I'm curious about the ethical implications of your last point.

The maximally pessimistic view, which you and Feymnan seem to be espousing, is that people explicitly put "put their thumb on the scale" so that they get the right number. That's clearly bad.

The PDF you linked presents it as a more emergent phenomenon, driven by how people usually work. It's possibly an argument for working more slowly and carefully, or the use of pre-registration, but it seems ethically neutral.

Finally, you could think about this as a form of Bayesian updating, which each experiment nudges our previous best estimate of the value. Obviously, it would be better to do this formally, but it does seem more rational than completely discarding the past.
I'm a huge fan of "whole messages".

I fondly recall a situation while at a startup, with a room full of engineers.. we were all in a slack channel, and a contractor working on an infrastructure project began asking a question... in parts...

I almost died, watching several people in the office watching the slack channel, waiting for the next part of his question, seeing the contractor was "typing" and literally just waiting for him to press enter... a sentence at a time.

Their inability to form a complete though before sending the message, literally interrupted several engineers focus and had them waiting for the whole message. Rude.
This is why the important projects must be thoroughly planned and tested in order avoid non-trivial infra or a blind cat situation.
And then it is a really good idea to leverage IaaC (Infrastructure as a code) which would bring the whole thing up really quick.
Maybe you don't understand persistent background jobs or maybe I don't understand Erlang.

What happens if you have a bug in a task and it takes a week for your development team to develop a fix? Does that Erlang task live in memory all that time? That's the point of Sidekiq's retry subsystem and persistence in Redis.

Ruby is multi-threaded. My customers buy my commercial versions because they want the more complex features and support.
I think the answer is obvious: a trash can or recycle bin. It's clear this could turn into a DDoS by them, but thankfully they havent thought like that. I'd prob backfire advertising wise anyway.
How can I prove that if I borrowed it from a friend or a library?
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Buffet indicator just says that stocks are priced high relative to economy. It indicates smaller ROI in the future if you buy now. This can be completely acceptable. Market crash is just one way smaller ROI can actualize. Lower than average stock market growth for several years corrects the valuations just as easily.

Most things that lead to crash those that are not measured accurately and develop under radar. Shadow margin is a suspect. It's hard to know how large problem it is and it connects stocks and real estate in a dangerous way.
If companies park their money abroad, is that money part of the GDP? If not, then the Buffett Indicator can grow even further without problems.
>human societies incentivize partnerships and nudge lonely humans to pair up

I think the opposite is true. For economic growth, maximum workforce mobility is preferable. Relationships reduce mobility, since they tie workers to specific locations. Our society has, for hundreds of years, increased the mobility of its workforce both intentionally and unintentionally, and so the average size of social grouping has declined, from the medieval village, to the victorian extended family, to the 20th century nuclear family, to us - atomized individuals.

Ultimately, if earning power is the sole source of human value, then any tradition that either takes a worker away from their job or doesn't allow them to find their maximum productivity role will progressively wither, since the followers of such traditions will be competing for resources against higher-income individuals, who can consequently outbid them.

So this sets up a sliding scale of incentives, that goes all the way down to forcible eviction (if you're choosing social ties over productivity, are you always going to pay rent) or starvation (like generations of farmers, 'starved out' of their land).
We respect Do Not Track. If you have Do Not Track enabled, we won't collect any data from you. Unfortunately Do Not Track has a number of fundamental issues and I'm not aware of any better way to signal you want to opt out.
I am still confused as to how democracy is threatened by any of this complete horse shit of a scandal. "micro-targeted" ads? You mean advertising to a person and not a group of people? So, instead of saying "this guy like this stuff", the ads say "this guy like the brand you buy"?

I am just lost on how any of this crap played any kind of outcome in any voter choice anywhere.

Did the ads lie to people?
Did the ads vote for people?
Whats the deal?

To believe any of this crap is to believe that people are forced at gunpoint by an ad to vote a certain way.

complete nonsense.
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Honig seems to probably be at least a double-digit millionaire (at least, prior to the sanctions for the fraud).

Ayyadurai, however, does seem to be a single-digit millionaire or less.

> Harder is a bad dude who sues journalists for seriously troubling reasons.

Sure, I just don't see evidence that it's primarily or even regularly on behalf of people who aren't significantly wealthier (or sponsored by someone wealthier) than single-digit millionaires, such that it is somehow a contradiction to Thiel’s claim about the limited effective legal power of people at merely that level of wealth when they lack a wealthier benefactor.
I mean, he is already being sued right now.... and these lawsuits seem to have a better chance of winning than some other random liability lawsuit.
Except I had literally never heard of them. And the only comments on this topic (when I posted) were other people asking who they were and why this was on HN.
I'm shocked at the responses to this comment. It is delusional to claim that if all men collectively work harder, they can succeed in one of the most male skewed metros in the United States. This isn't some oil field in North Dakota either, most of the surplus men here are high earning and well educated.

There is a lot of data showing that even with a balanced gender ratio, women are much more selective picking partners than men are. This is for obvious evolutionary reasons. Now, take that and add in a 50% male surplus, and you have a city where most women openly say they only date 6/6'1+ and high earners. This can be verified on practically any dating app with a few hours of data.
TL;DR: the operating temperature range of these sensors is small, nowhere near automotive spec, and a real problem at high temperatures. Also, watch the fine print on Ouster's thermal specs.

The bigger issue is hot weather; electronics and lasers work well (often more efficiently) at cold temps, and the electrical power running through them self-heats the components. The problem arises when the environment is already hot, and the components still self-heat. This is a particularly large problem for LiDAR, where lasers are very sensitive to temperature and typically use some sort of thermoelectric controller to keep the laser itself at a precise constant temperature. But these thermoelectric devices are inefficient at cooling and lose control (go into thermal runaway) when things get too hot.
Automotive component thermal specs (AEC-Q100) require operation (and start-up) at -40C up to anywhere from 70-150C depending on grade. Ouster's -10/-20C to 50C range actually relies on an external base heatsink being used, which they never picture and makes the sensor significantly heavier and larger. These sensors are a far cry from being ready for automotive use.
There are plenty of communities that mitigate this problem through earned privileges. Real users who are participating in the community are able to do more than someone that just signed up with a throwaway address. Stackoverflow seems like an okay model... recent moderator issues aside.

Also, the ability to whitelist an author or book for extra moderation seems like a no-brainer. After there is evidence of harassment then all user content needs to be approved before it is made public. Enable trusted moderators from the community to help with this if paid moderators cannot keep up.

This seems like it could get so so much worse than it currently is. The target of harassment seems to be taking it well but what happens on a platform like this to someone that isn't as prepared to deal with it?
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Perhaps it'd be a good idea to rebalance your 401k portfolios, if you're fortunate enough to have savings.
I don't know where they got that idea from, both in Denmark and Norway it isn't like that at all in most places. The grass is greener I guess.
Actually I think it's a terrible chart. The stock market is a lot older than 1998, so why does it only begin there?

"The line was high, then it was less high!" What happened to "we're not investing in wiggling lines"?
I feel like this contentious issue has had a net negative effect on his life and that he should just sell the damn place and move on.

It's been years and there's so much else to do!
I wonder if this could spur a nonsensical flight into crypto. Are we due for another rush?
I don't know, I was just curious once it got brought up.
Haha, no. Vinod has never, ever visited this property and even brags about that fact quite often.
The shipping charge covers whatever meager profit they get.

Something like the profitability of collecting cans for the deposit.
God I hope so, these bags are killing me.
Are these questions based on reading the article or not? A lot of the things are discussed in the article... the question is not whether the beach is public, it is about what access requirements he has to meet. Does he have to provide a road? Parking?
Assuming by "park" you mean just sit on it, then no. Money that isn't spent is not part of GDP.

GDP is the total of all private investment + goods + services + government costs, basically.

Dividing one number by another number is a meaningless game of numerology.
That isn't a tax thing though - payroll/income taxes are roughly the same.
Doesn't the prononciation differ -- ver vs. vaire?
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Yes, I have the same model. I think I bought it for between $650 and $750.
How many of these are real? I don't care how efficient you are as a team. I see 50+ integrations and one engineer on the team, on top of a complicated base product.

Color me suspicious...
Exactly, in fact in the British Isles even the land above the high tide line (I forget the exact extent) is public. In New England they wanted to encourage the development of docks (to promote more commerce) and extended ownership to include the land on which docks would be built.
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Am curious as to what you (and others) think are the better funds (or other areas) to move money to to better weather a recession?
> Russia's Crimean desires?

Russia's Crimean desire is Russia's desire for land and spoils of war. Nothing more nothing less.

Crimea just happened to be there with some historical justification with which they came months into the conflict. Russia was plainly unable to advance any much further beyond the line where Ukrainians were scared enough to fight them seriously.

Russophone sentiment? No, nonsense, otherwise they wouldn't be occupying Ukrainian majority regions, or allow ethnic Russians to be made hate crime victims in their own backyard (Armenia, Kazakhstan to some extend, and ethnic autonomies in Russia itself)

Their desire for Crimea is not much different from their desire from getting a cut of land on the Rheine, or french Riviera, or even your capitol hill if you allow them to.
To the best of my knowledge (and a reading of the actual law text), the 1976 Coastal Access Act doesn't require private owners to provide and maintain facilities for public beaches -- it simply doesn't prevent them from doing so. The Deeneys chose to make Martins Beach a business, and more than likely started doing so before the Coastal Access Act passed. Khosla is absolutely within his rights to stop maintaining "the parking lot and other facilities in operable and safe condition"; the battle is over whether he's within his rights to block access to the beach entirely just because he can't find a way to turn a profit from it -- and whether the limited access he's currently granting is enough to meet the law's requirements.
Well, clearly, wherever I heard that from was a terrible source of information! I stand corrected!
I don't drink at all anymore, but I also never liked the taste. I used to drink socially (maybe a beer or two or three, once a week), but I found better friends, so I don't need to do that anymore. It's been like 5 years.

> What were the benefits?

The benefits are that I look younger and I'm definitely smarter and sharper than people that binge once a week at my age. Alcohol dehydrates you (which makes you look older) but it also destroys your brain, especially in binges.

The downsides are some people try to peer pressure you or try to make you feel bad for not drinking in social situations.

My $0.02 are - if you can't do a dry January, for whatever reason, then you probably have a drinking problem and need help.
Your first argument is right. You must correct for the changes in private versus public ratio.

Your second argument is not that good. Company profits are fraction of the GDP. Profits increase only in expense of wages, taxes, or investments and usually only temporarily.

ps.

Nonfinancial corporate business: Profits before tax/Gross Domestic Product

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=pR5f
The best engineers I worked with were very respectful of my work (UI Design) and were always happy to share their knowledge. They also ask me questions and ask me about how we can do things better. They are constantly looking for ways to improve our products for the customers, in contrast to the developers who have an attitude of "this'll do".
It's definitely the reason I'm a shareholder.
> Question...will you be able to replay/backfill as you add new integrations?

Yes, absolutely! As long as the destination is able to accept timestamped data, you'll be able to replay all historical data since you installed Freshpaint.
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I can't recall any plane crashes that also involved a plane switch. So getting bumped to a different plane type and crashing is incalculably rare.
I'm in the netsec field. I also use a Roku smart TV. Reason being is that I simply don't care if my TV knows what I watch. The software is fantastic, its a tradeoff I'm willing to make. I've tried every OSS media center alternative there is, none of them can compete in terms of my TV 'just working' when I want to sit down and watch something.

Bigger fish to fry.
I expect not to care about implementation details. 9 seconds of work with these rather small inputs is embarrassing regardless of what language the compiler is written in.
There is definitely value to gain from Digital Literacy as well as Digital Etiquette, but I'd take your suggestion a step forward and teach more people how to handle the mind games that stem from toxic internet cultures with lessons on Digital Fortitude.

A lot of people who grew up with the internet wised up and learned to tolerate/ignore troll behavior. This mostly comes with age, but we can do a better job teaching young internet users that the racist commenter is just looking for attention and should be ignored, that the 200 messages could be coming from a single anti-social person, and that a slew of 1-star reviews may not be coming from a reputable source. This would also involve warnings on the repercussions of handling a hostile situation the wrong way (by engaging in a troll and showing obvious signs of stress or by blithely trusting a DM who appears to be on your side) and more effective ways to cope.
On the other hand, I know of a couple bootcamps that recommend his website and books as prep and supplementary material.
In the US, the MSRP for new VW Golf is around $22k, so you can probably get one for $20k or less if you shop around the dealerships. On top of that $20k, you'll pay sales tax, which is 10% in most expensive places, and usually something like 6-8%.

When comparing BMW prices, don't look at some weird cars that nobody buys like i8, look at popular BMWs. For example, 2020 BMW X5 here costs something around $70k, depending on the features.
Perhaps your vision is too black and white. Russia still receives sanctions ( that hurts their economy) and Crimea has always been mostly Russians, with over 65% Russians.

None of them were actually part of the EU. Although i would have wished Ukraine would have been better off without Russia ( and more democracy). It's not that easy to make an objective opinion, Russia had way more to loose than any of us + 65% Russians in the country would have made it possible to make a democratic decision ( in theory)

Georgia, i'm not aware of that actually. It's seems to me that both were caused by oil for Russia. My statement about subsidizing renewable energy against Russia has only been proven right.