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I don't think there was one specific thing that helped me keep these sessions going, it was a long a pretty long and tedious process, to be frank.

I had to convince both sides:
1. the management so that they would give us explicit permission to take time from our "actual work" time
2. the devs to actually start and keep it going

management caved in after...
- I researched our competitors and their tech, highlighted features which would be very hard/impossible to implement given our architecture and what we needed to learn
- dozens of comments about what we lose implementing feature Y in the "old" and "known" way vs using tech/service X
- made comparisons to different professions which always have to stay on top of their game to win

all while repeating the message that we cannot have a world-class product without a world-class tech team. I think framing this as a "loss" instead of "gain" helped a ton.

With management buy-in, we were creating a "learning" card for everyone in the tech team each sprint. These cards were "committed" so there was no getting around of finishing them.

The dev team needed some motivation as well. Coding features as quickly as possible has obvious and visible advantage - you get praised, you might get a bonus, you might be promoted. Learning on the other hand.. less so.

To keep a long story short, I convinced them that the more they know the better their market value is by showing various stats. After the initial nudge, it was just intellectual curiosity that kept the meetings going.

Format wasn't anything special:
- pick a book/article/system by vote
- one person spends a couple of hours going through the chosen 'thing'
- prepares a list of items to talk about
- people vote about what should we talk about (before the meeting)
- we have a presentation/discussion. each meeting ends with
- list of practises/ideas we would like to implement. the list is committed to our documentation repository and followed up on
- list of things we would like to learn in the future
Sounds very silly and minimal but I've learned to say "no" and it changed my whole work life. I've gained so much out of it.

- respect of my opinion

- peace (as opposed to stress)

- Massive code quality increase

- Meet my deadline more often

and probably more... this was life changing
Learn PHP. I've had all PHP completely remote gigs for the last 10 years. Good PHP developers are hard to find and many companies will pay well.
> The justification. The problem isn't a doctor refusing because they think it is harmful, the problem is a doctor refusing because they think it is harmful against established science with no science to back up their own position

Well, I don't think we are going to solve this in the comments section, but my impression is that is not true. Trans-friendly doctors who have a long history of working in the field and helping suffering individuals transition have been accused of being transphobic, while advocates for aggressive medical treatment openly admit they don't have scientific evidence backing their treatments (use of puberty blockers in young children, for instance, is off-label and I'm unaware of any studies done with control groups that compare therapy vs drugs for treating this in children). E.g. https://www.thecut.com/2016/02/fight-over-trans-kids-got-a-r...

Where this will eventually land in terms of the science isn't clear to me but what is clear is that the use of the term "transphobe" has increased dramatically. I've also seen it applied to those who state they wouldn't be interested in dating or having sex with a transitioned person, which is far from wishing them to not be human or not exist.

I think it's very reasonable to want to avoid people who are openly racist or problematic in the workplace but expanding definitions of "phobic" and "ism" is concerning and I'd wonder how such algorithmic tools would judge where the lines are.
Math on Wikipedia is just absolutely atrocious.
This is totally an option for most Americans... they don't give themselves the option. Walking/ Biking is the best.
Whatever happened to the 90s where the prevailing advice was that the internet was a dangerous place, and you should always used pseudonyms?
The former is obvious, no place is LGBT free by fiat. Just more repressive.
So, cross-referencing databases is (usually) illegal for the government to do, but private companies can do it just fine? Am I the only one of noticing a loophole here?
MIDI addresses a broader category of problems where there might not necessarily even be an audio stream.

Not unusual now, I have an analog desktop synthesizer module with a MIDI-to-CV control interface, and I simply want to connect a MIDI keyboard to it to be able to play it. My application is unconcerned with digital audio streams. Actually, I have a bunch of synthesizers, some analog and some digital. I use a hardware sequencer to sequence them. Some use their own internal sequencers, so they simply use the start/stop/clock real-time messages to stay on beat. The point at which any of this becomes an audio stream is if I start my PC and record from the mixer output.

MIDI 2.0 at least opens up to some improvements to synchronization with fine grained event timestamps. Using that together with timestamped audio buffer delivery at least allows for jitter mitigation.
Take note that the ludicrously cheap prices only apply if its end-to-end Hauwei: i.e. If you plug pne piece of Hauwei kit into another.

If you add non-Hauwei kit, you not only have to buy the more expensive gear but you also have to buy a more expensive licence for the protocol on the Huawei kit.

Source: adding SMSCs, GMLCs, SMLCs, etc to HW networks.
In the past, this was called "professionalism", and private lives were kept private.
That depends how dense metallic hydrogen is...
Thinking that anyone disagreeing with my opinions want certain people exterminated is not healthy.

There are not genocidal maniacs behind every tweet that annoys us.

My best guess is that it's a form of Motivated Reasoning for "striking back first" at these imagined monsters.
Or, aside from that... section 230 was only needed in the first place because otherwise providers couldn’t moderate without being considered publishers. If section 230 goes away or is weakened too much, wouldn’t the simplest way for providers to avoid liability be to stop moderating altogether? Surely it’s not what we want, but it might be what we get.
You’re arguing semantics. Getting to keep your previously agreed upon comp for failing tremendously (costing your org billions of dollars and contributing to macro economic nation state GDP suppression) can still be expressed as a golden parachute, even if a separate payment to separate from Boeing wasn’t made.
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Please make yourself familiar with a bit more modern economic theories. The belief that the unregulated market moves things to an optimum for all participants has been proven to be wrong by modern game theory. Not all economic games have their equilibrium at the optimum for consumers.

I leave open if this particular intervention on chargers is beneficial for the public or not, but you will have to argue about chargers to make a point, not about governments and markets.
> US efforts to project power are in no way comparable to Chinese efforts (as far as the UK is concerned).

The UK conducts extensive trade with both the US and China, so the potential for trade disputes with either country is there. At the moment, I think it's fair to say that a major trade dispute with the US is more likely than a trade dispute with China.

> Should, god forbid, widespread warfare break out once again (as it has since tribal days up until the last 80 years or so), any westerner with a modicum of understanding of Putin’s or Xi’s ideal world ought to be on the side of the US/UK.

Whatever you think of China, you can't claim that it's been more belligerent than the US in the past several decades. Blindly backing the US and giving in to its demands (backed by sanctions against its own allies, as in the case of Germany) to cut off ties with China and Russia might not be the best way to promote global peace.
Boeings look unsafe now but are Airbus really any safer? We are looking at a small sample of extreme events. And just generally, I would not put a great deal of confidence in a company run by politicians...that doesn't mean Boeing is great btw, just that it is probably less bad.
> most Americans

In which cities and on which incomes?
MOOCs, Build things, Network, Learn Sales/ Management skills, Save money (the best way to advance your career is to have options), Read books... a lot of books.
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Adtech happened. Deanonymized people are more exploitable.
If it was a consistent, minimally customized product, not driven by trends.. probably.

But fashion is ridiculously fickle. Not only is it seasonal and geographical but it can be weather-based, totally reactive to the news and trends that turn on a dime, and influenced by what that movie star wore at that huge party last night.

(I've advised on a couple startups that have tried to accomplish this. The large trends are relatively straightforward and predictable, it's the frothiness/immediacy within that that becomes a mess and wholly unpredictable.)
Erlang is dynamically typed in part, I believe, to allow hot-swapping code in a running system. It relies on pattern matching to ensure code contracts / ie your types are more like guarantees that a pattern holds true, even if some of the specifics of that protocol have changed. Thus, with zero downtime, you can make updates to the system, while still knowing that your assertions about received data matching your protocol remains true. Any adapters can act like both type update and schema migration simultaneously, as in the case where you wish to support multiple versions of an API simultaneously.

The runtime system has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. Because of the design goals for Erlang and it's runtime, you get services that can all run on one system or be distributed across a network, but the code that you actually write is relatively simple; the entire distributed system acts as a fault-tolerant VM that has functional guarantees.

If your startup node fails, then other nodes are elected. If a node crashes while in the middle of a method, another node will execute the method instead.

The runtime itself has some analogies to functional coding styles. It runs on a register machine rather than a stack machine. The call and return sequence is replaced by direct jumps to the implementation of the next instruction.
> Boeing is heading towards a government bail out very rapidly.

If this situation comes into reality and the government or another institution does not bail Boeing out, what kind of impact would we expect to see on the aerospace industry and community?
Serial ports (RS-232) were one of the most variable ports ever used. Each device that you wanted to connect to a computer required a differently wired cable. Wires mapped to different pins, pins soldered together. It was a nightmare.
What is the price point? Exactly how much cheaper is Huawei vs. Nokia/Ericsson?

Some rumors say that Huawei has 4,000 software engineers that they can throw at a problem, like their current goal to replace Google services.

If an average software engineer in China makes $10,000 USD, vs. an average software engineer at Google making $160,000 USD. Then Huawei will spend $40 million USD, vs. Google spending $640 million USD.

That’s a pretty significant difference. Huawei’s operating cost is 6% of Google’s.

Huawei can afford to throw a lot of human brain power at solving an engineering problem. And especially when a lot of Chinese companies are operating in start-up mode and working 60+ hours a week.
My favorite jacket is a reproduction of the classic British windproof smock in sturdy polycotton, but black rather than camo. It's practical with plenty of roomy pockets, cut so there's room to move, windproof and quite water repellent with a coat of wax. And because it's simple polycotton, it's easy to repair if it tears or a stitch rips. It's unlined so I can use it almost all year, and roomy enough that I can fit warmer layers underneath.

Along with it, I bought a surplus Czech winter jacket. Olive drab canvas, furry lining, built like a tank. I have no doubt it will last for decades, and it was €30.

The value for money you get with military surplus or good reproductions is astounding. You won't have the fashion brand logos, but you'll have clothing that lasts for decades.

(I bought it from Varusteleka in Finland. They're a bit quirky, but the selection is outstanding and they ship worldwide)
Isn't the only difference between rotors, as defined in this article, and quaternions the sign of the second 3d component?

And this only happens because the planes are defined as "xy", "xz" and "yz", rather than the more consistent "xy", "yz" and "zx"?

If you just changed the definition of the planes at the start of the derivation, it seems you would end up deriving the exact same operations as you would use with quaternions? I'm not sure if there is a good argument for not doing that.
It's just a technique to scare you into providing evidence. And in the CIA it's a test of your resilience to interrogation.
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AFAIK the standard script for polygraph tests is for the interrogator to say there's a "trigger", regardless of whether there's actually a statistically significant change in the polygraph output. The idea is convince the participant that they know they're lying and push them to incriminate themselves.
Consider https://radiosilenceapp.com/ too - kind of similar to TripMode but has different feature set.
Get a budgeting system in place where you don't overspend (I like ynab [0]). Make sure you save for retirement. Thereafter spend anyway you want. If you wanna buy an expensive car do that. If you'd rather buy a $10 juice every day for the rest of your life do that. You can't do both though..

[0]: http://youneedabudget.com
The car also continues to depreciate. Not as dramatically as early on, but the depreciation does continue.
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First I'd want to be sure someone was actually "posting publicly that women are intellectually inferior and shouldn't be allowed to work professional jobs".

Sometimes people post something completely different and it gets twisted into something like that that's obviously offensive but isn't what they said.

In much the same way this report twists the meaning of every tweet.
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Different courts have ruled differently on that issue. Note that it's mainly applicable to foreign defendants, and you'd have to show that you can't serve them through other channels.

See https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2019/05/court-rejects-... for a court finding otherwise on a similar case.

If you're running a business, there's different expectations.
FAANG is full of people who don't actively tweet. G+ was famous for Google execs not using it.
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There was nothing wrong with your name until you were about 12 years old?
A story very similar to this involving that same Toronto Raptors basketball player was submitted just 2 hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22210781
Haskell library (semantic): https://github.com/github/semantic
On the last background check I had with them, they marked every one of my previous employers as "unable to contact" and asked me to provide proof of employment. I have to wonder whether they just didn't bother picking up the phone.
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I don't see a problem with splurging on the moving box that many people spend hours every week/day stuck inside.
The world (space-time state) is immutable. World space state is a pure function of time. If you call World(time) you always get the same answer.
bc we live in a free labor market , and that is what it takes to attract talent at the c level (+ supply/demand).

not sure why this same scrutiny does not apply to pro athletes or actors/recording artists.
Most auto wear comes from miles but the big exception is winter in the snow belt. Things are a lot better than they used to be but driving a car regularly in winter in much of Canada and the northern US still probably limits life to a decade and change.
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I don't believe it's common to embed application scripting code within c source files, no.
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Important point. The net present value of a car does not approach zero asymptotically, it crosses zero and keeps going.
CEO was rewarded for increasing artificially the stock price, through stock buy backs. He did a good job at that and a bad job at managing an industrial company.
That s how big companies start to fail, they lose sight of what matters.
How are you going to avoid manipulation of scores?
It's pretty well known that it is flawed bullshit when applied a small number of times to a small number of people that you have limited information where you are trying to find out the truth about something very specific.

Applied repeatedly over a long time to a large group of people that you have extensive information on where you are aren't looking for information about some specific thing, by an agency with extensive experience in extracting meaningful signals from noisy sources...I would not be at all surprised if they can get something actually valid from it.
This is a strange case where for some reason the EU isn't doing exactly what it very obviously should be doing: looking after its own self-interest and pushing European technology aggressively [1]. The EU should have taken the opportunity to severely deflate Huawei in the EU and push European alternatives.

Europe needs to gain in tech and this is one easy way to do it, by supporting their own players, their own ecosystem. And it's a self-interest freebie at that: the US and EU interests are mostly aligned, there will be no push-back for supporting Ericsson & Co. The US would rather everyone use Ericcson than Huawei.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/29/21113289/european-union-e...
I'm seeing lots of requests from fun things like go-http-client and such.
Also some emergency cash up to $100 hidden in the car where only you would know where to look is worth the peace of mind knowing technology is not infallible.
HireRight almost failed my background check because I got the month wrong on my graduation from high school. I legitimately don't understand why a background check has to be this in-depth.

Edit: actually I think it was elementary school. Even worse.
There are entire industries insulated enough for illegal HR practices to prevail. “Other places to work” line of reasoning is tone deaf and functionally abusive.
I wonder how long it will be before someone competent starts doing this and including deanonymized data from places like HN, Reddit, Twitter accounts without your real name attached, phone location, etc.
tl;dr the grant application for EU funding was left purposefully vague so they could put a symphony hall inside a conference center at a time when money was tight. The rest of the story is about why this particular symphony hall has nice acoustics even though it's in an ugly building.
Keeping your expenses low is absolutely a wise financial decision and will leave in you in a better place, all else being equal. But a person making say $10,000 with $9,000 of expenses is not better off than a person making $20,000 with $15,000 of expenses. You can't take your money with you, so balancing between long-term and short-term decision making is crucial.

Short-term thinking is common, but blanket statements like this are way too simplistic.

The author also misses the major point that buying a car is not lighting money on fire. Yes, it does depreciate, but you also get value of out it in the form of transportation, pleasure, and other utility.

That doesn't mean you should blow all your money on a car, it just means you should live within your means, and that you should be sure you are getting good value out of your car for how you spend.
Does this include retweets?

I'm mostly a passive twitter user who mostly likes/retweets tweets that pique my interest.

I wonder if these companies evaluate what sort of things you are liking/endorsing and associating that with your character...
I only know one person making a seven-figure salary. And of all the people I know, he drives the crappiest car.

He's not an executive or a director or a C-level, just an upper-level cog in the machine. But his skills and reputation are such that he can command that kind of money. More importantly, he has been with the company he works for over 25 years, and in his contract he gets a certain percent raise, plus merit pay. That percent over 25 years adds up. And the company is happy to pay it because it would rather not compensate him with extra time off like it does other employees.

He drives an old pickup truck. He lives in a perfectly adequate home in a perfectly ordinary neighborhood and is a super nice guy. Maybe he tells stories that are too long, but I've never known anyone to dislike him.

I don't know what he does with his money, other than he bought his parents a house a few years back. He's single with no children so I wonder what will happen to all of his money when he dies. Probably go to a charity or something.

He is easily the happiest man I've ever met.
The US had been full of racisst, homophobic, and sexist people much more in the past and it didn't hurt their "effectiveness in the workplace", to the point that the US was the #1 economy in the world. So, maybe personal opinions of that nature are not related to being a good developer or a good car mechanic or hair dresser.

Second, what's a offensive (e.g. homophobic, sexist, etc) is quite an arbitrary thing these days, with all kinds of things that would perfectly fine for a leftist Democrat to say in 1990 or 2000 or 2010 being considered as such in 2020, and things getting weirder by the minute.
> Where else can you take $40,000 and set it on fire in seven years? And pay a bunch of interest to the bank in the process? What a disaster.

Where is this $40k number actually coming from? I read the linked articles but there didn't seem to be any detailed analysis that I saw...

> The takeaway here is that your financial well-being is not the product of a million small decisions, but two or three big decisions.

Uhh maybe it's both? I've done a detailed analysis of our finances for many years. I find that those little things really do add up. Changing my lifestyle such that I have cheap hobbies, don't eat out, don't drink alcohol (esp. at restaurants), and make coffee at home has actually saved me a lot of money. On the order of many thousands per year compared to my prior bad habits.

Lifestyle creep really does happen if you aren't focused on stopping it. Yes, I can "afford" to eat out 7 days per week and go to Starbucks every single day and lease high-end cars. My bank account will actually probably still be growing even if I did this. However, it won't grow nearly as much as if I just cool my jets and live a modest lifestyle
There are tens of millions of American families with dilapidated cars and without riches. This is a stupid article. The road to a rich society is to build cities where nobody, rich or poor, ever needs a car of any quality.
I once bought a crappy car and ended up spending way more on repairs than expected that it would of made more sense to have bought a relatively new car instead. Crappy cars break down and you have to pay tow trucks, miss work, and spend more on repairs. I'd argue that it's worth spending more for a car that will be reliable.