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I'm sorry, that's a terrible story.

I am not a fan of Prasad. I find him querulous and condescending, but the main reason is that I have seen him give talks, rant on his podcast and tweet about clinical trials in a way that is designed for maximum volume, sacrificing nuance and accuracy. He also has zero tolerance for challenges to his views (that he would write such an article in the OP is another sign of this). As I said, this gives the appearance of being a useful activity, but in my opinion has zero material impact on medical care or policy. He is not merely a skeptic, since skeptics do not need to write articles describing why they are not only important, but somehow more important than people actually doing research.

A good example of someone that retains healthy skepticism, writes about it in the literature, advocates for patients but still actually does research and tries to improve the way clinical trials are done is Ian Tannock [1].

[1] https://dailynews.ascopubs.org/do/10.1200/ADN.19.190328/full...
Do you object to the basic premise or the particulars of how it's practiced?
IMHO, there are two problems:

1. You are expected to work 8 hours, while your body/brain is just made for 4 hours of extensive mental work. Afterward, concentration and productivity plunge.

2. Office cultures are rarely made for Deep Work. Instead, you are expected to participate in meetings, communication and presentations.

I think both problems are somewhat solvable, but in many companies, the office culture doesn't make it easy to fit in while solving those factors.
I said something similar in another comment, but one of the things I say in the introduction is that I've written the book to help people understand what the management track is really about. So if someone reads the book and decides that it isn't for them, I think that I can hopefully say I've helped them also.
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I thought the existing power structures would include the media conglomerates that launched this Twitter Mob on this company .. you know the investigative reporting of 'The Verge', owned by NBCUniversal ... this power structure?
The FDA operates as a corrupt organization and, if wasn’t a government agency, would be prosecuted under RICO.
You know how there are so many shitty technologies - frameworks, programming languages, that are obviously bad, and your chosen tech stack is obviously so much better?

With all likelihood, the same thing exists in other areas of work, too. For example medicine.

So if you walk into the wrong clinic, they may give you the "PHP treatment", or treat your infection with "NodeJS, running on a Windows 7 server". (I mean not actual programming languages, but the medical treatment with a similar level of issues and opinions).

I find that a scary thought.

(Edit: not to bash PHP or JS. I personally like JavaScript and I've heard PHP has gotten a lot better. Just examples for controversial technologies).
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Is bird song music or just a guy sat on a fence shouting at all the other guys to fuck off out of his yard?
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Oh my god. Only my stance is current otherwise it's instant doomsday
> generally have a good life and a high income

This is extremely spurious, especially given that there's a significant fraction of the student population studying things that are fundamentally not terribly useful from a money point of view (think about philosophy and any of the cultural studies).

> The alternative is having the rest of the population pay for your education

The Netherlands does this, and you can easily tell by viewing the discrepancy between yearly costs for someone from outside the EU versus someone from inside the EU. You'll figure out that the money comes from somewhere, and that somewhere is the government.
How does this compare with podman, that does work in rootless mode?
> can account for a quarter of a program’s run time

It can but it will more likely account for much much less than that, unless all your programs are massive loops that do little more than access the same attribute repeatedly.
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The last time I checked, using Julia was clunky at best with ridiculously high jit-compile times, packages that refused to build on my machine etc..
What is more, many of the "best" Julia libraries were seemingly just linked-in Python code.

I don't mean to discredit the advantages Julia clearly has over Python, but these are just the kinds of problems that make people like me stick with tried and tested last-gen languages like Python.
Good work if you can get it, but all the interview questions plumbing the obscurest depths of Newtonian physics are pretty tough.
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Interesting. I know devs with similar stories - though obviously with slightly different outcomes.
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Just spent 6 months in London at a hypergrowth Fintech as VP Growth. Learned a damn lot about failure, hiring, the new SaaS workflows, training the next generation and ambition. Summarized it here https://link.medium.com/jJfvmCq2e3 Hope somebody finds it valuable.
Nature has the highest percentage of affected papers. Huh.
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Big companies don't pay taxes anyway, and they represent the greatest risks.
I really enjoy getting to influence projects at their genesis, being a CTO gives me a mandate to intercept & triage requirements. Trading off some day-to-day coding for this opportunity is a win for me.
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Work is much easier than studying, much more boring as well.
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I read into the details of this and I suggest that this person was assertive but not toxic. They have the stupid koolaid going, but not necessarily any worse than many places. I think the top line story is reasonable: this is not any kind of normal scenario for the CEO to get the boot.
You will come to forks in your career path more than once. Do not underestimate the importance of choosing what makes you happy. Do not overestimate the benefits of choosing what brings in more money.

In short: choose happiness over money, most of the time.
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Plaid's better than using Finicity, which is even worse.
The aversion may also be down to the fact apartments are typically sold on a leasehold basis, often accompanied by exorbitant ground rent and service fees.

I wouldn’t even call it owning a property, when you are obliged to pay £200+ in rent and charges, £100+ in council tax, etc. in perpetuity.
This is a great point. I read Thinking in Systems a few years ago and it changed how I observe and try to influence (or not) existing systems. Highly recommend. https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/dp...
I don't know whether it's in the book - perhaps it's in the "How to Win Friends and Influence People" chapter - but one thing I struggle with is communicating outwards and upwards.

I tend to assume that everybody else in the company knows that my team works in the way it does because that's how you deliver software successfully. Often, this comes back to bite when I learn that other managers think the team should be managed differently, and because I haven't made enough efforts to sell our methodology, those managers can have more influence than I'd like.

So, as an Engineering Manager, it's not enough that everybody in your team is happy and produce. You also have to be an advocate for your team to the rest of the company.
The protection from unreasonable search and seizure is taken to mean that the police can't stop your car without a reason. Since the justice system really really wants to be able to stop your car at will, anything at all can be a "reason".
a) This is very incomplete. Australia has more than just two VC.

b) If you're looking for a complete list just signup for a Crunchbase Pro trial, scrape the site and then cancel it. Or just invest in it if you are seriously fundraising.
“The members of Away’s board say they feel as if they fell victim to management by Twitter mob.”

This statement speaks volumes about the efficacy of board governance.
The forces of chaos certainly seem to be in the ascendant in the West. A British woman makes thousands a month taking her clothes off online and selling her bathwater to perverts etc., yet if I call this out I'm liable to being labelled a dinosaur, misogynistic, hateful, etc. etc. In today's society possessing what were once considered traditional morals is liable to leave one at best socially isolated and at worst destitute.
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Chinese developers are Apple’s priority, even they don’t follow Apple rules
IMO, Stack Overflow has already achieved its initial mission, but not the mission they set out for.

Stack Overflow wanted to create a wiki of questions and answers, when in reality all initial users wanted was a dedicated programming Q&A site that would answer their questions. The wiki aspect was a side goal of this.

Today, Stack Overflow has the answers to many questions, and due to the similarity in many questions already out there it is incredibly difficult to get an answer without some level of gatekeeping - whether it's from the users/moderators, or from the system itself trying to stop duplication.

IMO, Stack Overflow has failed at being a wiki, because they refuse to allow duplicates. If I were in charge of Stack Overflow, I would actively encourage duplicates, and build the Q&A system around merging duplicates over having one definitive answer. Sure, maybe the world doesn't need 50 different perspectives on how to get a Mongo collection out of Meteor, but a smart system would turn those individual contributions into one master question, asked by 50 people, with numerous answers that work in certain situations, or specific versions. Until SO consider this approach, I can only see the distrust towards them growing.
For small apps it is possible I guess. Problem is that many large companies use this practice. I've tried to reason with The Fork and the French rail company to no avail for example. They know they don't risk anything by violating this rule and Apple has no high ground as they violate this same rule themselves.
I guess he is using a technique similar to those posted in this SO post. [1]

Google tells me there are some third party libs/api's to do this, but nothing official, ISFICT.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5374045/how-to-access-ki...
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Sure, I'm not saying that you should use Rails over Lavarel, but rather that you shouldn't consider differences in costs of hosting much since other factors like difference in development time probably dwarf those.
Disabling Javascript doesn't work anymore, as you could've tried or read in these StackOverflow anwsers.

Changing /edit to /preview, like Anon9001 suggests, does work.
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Because some valuable content may cost money to access. FWIW, at least many/most U.S. library systems let you access such paywalled content for free, so I recommend getting yourself a library card if you're in the U.S. :).
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Reminds of the book Systemantics by John Gall.
I'm not an expert but that won't stop me from guessing why!

Perhaps it would be far easier for the donor to regrow the majority of their own liver in their own body than it would be for the recipient, given the immune response and other factors that I would imagine complicate a transplant.
I don’t know what problem that would solve. Academia rarely does trials that end up killing people. Unlike the whole CAR-T cell therapy. Companies like Juno killed almost 50% of their patient, before the FDA halted their trial, which was allowed to resume later, and kill more people. Granted they where going to die anyway. Still the like of Hans Bishop who us held as a hero in the industry because he sold his company for billions, while the product will never be approved. Even if were to be, it would sit on a shelf because it’s too expensive. So much for transparency...

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https://www.theengineeringmanager.com

https://pragprog.com/book/jsengman/become-an-effective-softw...
What's up with the dogmatic and assertive confidence over knowledge style?
> One Plus and Android One phones come pretty clean

OnePlus came with malware not too long ago, so I'm going to answer that with an emphatic no. They are better than some HTC phones I've seen, but that's not a high bar to meet.
XLSX isn't actually a standard in a meaningful sense. So while support for whatever parts are standard is "pretty good" how does that help your users when some of their sheets don't work correctly? Who wants to explain what's wrong and that nobody can fix it but er... maybe better luck next time?

XLSX (Office Open XML) is full of safety valves that let Microsoft's existing products continue doing whatever poorly documented or undocumented stuff they were doing previously. Microsoft didn't want to have to go back to features which worked in Office already and either rip them out or re-implement them, and it didn't have documentation for those features that anybody else would be able to implement‡. So Office Open XML just says in those cases well here's a blob of data and good luck unless you're Microsoft Office.

This is tolerable for exporting to Excel. I can emit compliant Office Open XML that gets my numbers into XL reliably. So that's nice.

But when importing from Excel you're fighting that impedance mismatch. Rather than explain to users "Something about your document is incompatible and I swear it's Microsoft's fault" it's just better to say "Use CSV".

‡ e.g. suppose there's a line in Excel which defines a function FOO() by calling into some particular Windows DLL. Well that's not a useful thing to standardise. So do you call the relevant MS department and ask them to paste all their documentation for that DLL into your "spreadsheet" standard? No. You write "Implementation defined" and it becomes a black box.
can you elaborate on the first?
See the C source I don’t find it less readable than Rust version.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Shouldn't you learn economics instead of CS if you want to run business?
> The least appreciated team member is the one who amplifies everyone's output.

I'll never forget the first time I saw a person like this get fired. At a previous job, we had a senior engineer who was an expert in the type of work we were doing who spent most of his day answering questions, helping others, making sure builds were running smoothly, etc.

Eventually, he was let go by management because he didn't close as many tickets in the bug database as the other engineers. Big loss to the team.
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Here in my corner of the US (Michigan), Unemployment is granted when you can show that you were fired or laid off, not entirely your fault, and then have to continue to answer a series of questions, at specified times, designed to help you fail. One of those questions is proof that you are looking for work, not just sitting around and taking the money. And when you get the money, it's usually less than half of what you were getting when actually working. Making an error usually resolves in not getting any money for that week, and the right error means no more money for the claim. There is a state-backed job search service, MIWorks, that you have to show proof of using, but it isn't as expansive as other job search sites. But they have offices with available computers and people to help search and/or build a resume, which is nice. But the big lesson here is if you lose in Michigan, you lose.
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What revenue streams does someone have that don't count as income and take a notable amount of time input? Most investments don't take any significant amount of time to set up.

And it's likely that whatever they're doing to get money should simply be counted as income too.

> This clearly disincentivizes creating additional value for society through an additional unit of effort at that job

Whatever they do instead might create less value for society, or it might create more value for society. I have no idea what the average is.

Also we have to look at the opportunity cost. By taxing one person with a huge income more, you can tax dozens of people with lower incomes less. In most cases that's a huge boon for society.

> Progressive taxation sets up steeply diminishing returns on that marginal effort.

Steeply? Bah. When you're talking about millions of dollars, removing 37 percent (or 50 or 70) still leaves an enormous incentive.

The thing that actually causes significant diminishing returns is that every dollar you earn benefits your life less than the previous dollar.
Very well put.

What I noticed is that every discipline invents their own lingo to describe the systems in play at the ethos of their discipline and they often manifest as some sort of law, principle or concept.

What I'm really curious about learning is to see if there's some sort of overarching discipline that focuses on these sort of systems as a meta and finds improvement points or market opportunities based on a given principle.

Take Moore's law for instance. It essentially describes a relationship between the most atomic component of {system} and the price of the commodity that is offered by that {system}. (system=hardware)

Now apply that to any other field. How about energy production? Is there a correlation between amount of cells in a solar panel and the price of energy at large available to consumers? This is still in the field of engineering so I'm guessing there will be some sort of relationship, but I wonder what taking it further into business and design for instance would look like.

I don't know how that would look like but to clarify I don't expect any of these laws to illustrate a similar pattern, but I do expect them to define how further along or behind any given "system" is, assuming that they are somehow comparable.
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For the pretty much perfect language, try Erlang or Elixir. The runtime guarantees are like no other languages, and it can easily drop down to C, C++, Rust and several others when needed.
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will it become preferable to normal e.g. gaming though?

I really hope for VR semi-realtime street view for when I'm old and brittle.
Is this really how courts work in the US? Does the Supreme Court effectively rule based on companies voting rather than the law as it is?
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It is a shame that Python became so popular. There are a number of choices that are just as “easy” (or better) and an order of magnitude more efficient.

Two options you can try guiding a budding python user to are Nim and F#
Being an irreplaceable part in a machine is not only bad for the company but it's also bad for you.
oh, and don't even try to bring important issues to light, some people will perceive that as you creating new problems out of nowhere
Yeah, the only restriction I'm aware of is that they can't pay dividends to shareholders.
>I suspect moreso if it becomes common knowledge exactly what the 'police baby seat' looks like, police investigatons might be compromised.

I think it's more likely that they don't want to be forced to reduce their profit margin by having to embed their crap in a wider variety of baby seats, grave markets, alarm clocks, etc. If they can skate by with one or two models of each they will make more money.

>Removing a chunk of foam and replacing it with electronics doesn't sound good for the baby's health in case of an accident, and I doubt very much the manufacturer of police spy gear has the expertise to re-test it.

Call me cynical but they likely don't care about that because they almost certainly make the departments take responsibility for use of their products. The departments don't care about being liable because they can usually hand-wave that sort of thing away under qualified immunity and if a judge does make them take responsibility and the departments don't care because the lawsuits are paid with our money, not theirs.
...and never being promoted.
Shoutout to Ben, py-spy is an amazing profiler. I believe cProfile has certain limitations and doesn't fully understand deep call stacks. py-spy does not have that limitation. It also offers multiple output formats (especially flamegraph and speedscope format, https://www.speedscope.app/) which make it so much nicer to identify bottlenecks.

At our company, py-spy has helped us a lot for our line-of-business application. I'm not affiliated with Ben in any way, but he deserves some praise for his work on py-spy.
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I've played a lot of video games where they aren't. In fact, I'd posit most video games don't take place with real-world geopolitics/national boundaries at all. And where they do, I don't think it's unusual that the antagonist may be an American.
but running things yourself means networking and financial risk. not everyone is good at that or can afford it
Apart from people, what are the main challenges to get to a stage where it is usable? My guess is that maintaining large indices is nontrivial in multiple aspects.
I thought they were the same thing.
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This is my next step. I don't current have any 4K/HDR devices, so the built-in apps do actually have some benefit to me. As soon as I pick up a compatible streaming device, I'll be factory resetting the TV and setting it back up without ever connecting it to the network.
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Change something physical: location of your desk, desk organisation, team, job, wallpaper ... and a the same time stop playing mahjong, chess and read HN at work. Just stop completely, and never do it again.

Your brain will get accustomed to this new order of things, and will keep it as a given: when at work, I work.

Changing something physical in your work environment is _required_ for your brain not to fall back to its old habits.
Money has diminishing returns. The more you make the more you'll get taxed, the nice things you buy stop bringing joy once they become too easy to acquire has been my experience.

Were wired to be happy when surrounded by loving family and a few really good friends.