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> ____ salaries are less than half than in the US for software developer roles.

You can fill the blank with essentially any non-US location and it would remain correct. Nowhere in the world pays tech workers as much as US does, in absolute or relative terms. Most of the world, Canada included, has priced developer salaries close to engineer salaries. The US is the sole exception where developer salaries are priced close to doctor salaries. Let's not pretend Canada is the outlier—US is.

I am not saying US is wrong and the rest of the world is right or vice versa in figuring out the correct price for tech work. I am just saying that there are two schools of thought, one the US, the other the rest of the world, and I am sure both have good reasons for their approach.
I dont understand how it's a "predatory" lawsuit when it appears to actually be valid.
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That still requires the buyer to hand over the check before they receive the keys and title.
Yea, that’s how I did a blowfish program, just looked for the big constant table, but you know there are some clowns out there that “make their own” s-box :) you know, to “be even more secure”.
> But under California law, a disabled person cannot claim money if they send the business owner a letter with their complaint first.

Seems like a decent thing to do to at the least raise an issue with a business owner and bring it to their attention, ideally face to face.

> ...businesses are not given warnings or a “grace period” to correct violations.
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> Plaintiffs can simply sue with little or no notice. That’s why law firms like Moore’s can easily swoop in with a lawsuit.

Seems like businesses should be given a chance first. Seems like the barrier is too low to get these lawsuits dealt out. Give folks a fair chance. This may even be an opportunity for some civic body of volunteers or even a chamber of commerce to proactively approach businesses in advance and get them into shape.
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It's only going to get worse before it gets better.

Coronavirus has showed up at a number of college campuses in the US, and now it's just a waiting game of another week to see if there's going to be any large scale spread in the US.
I don’t see why they need a browser at all. Kill IE and Edge and be done with it. The integration was a ploy to fool regulators.
> Things are fixing to get interesting if Bernie gets the nomination...

As always, Bernie’s plan appears to be “You bet I’ll do it!” and Warren’s plan is “Here is a carefully considered plan for it”. Having watched the Corbyn fiasco unfold, I really hope the Democrats manage to pick someone other than Sanders.
Virtually all business leases are "triple net", with the tenant being on the hook for every expense from taxes to casualty to maintenance and improvements. Commercial landlords aren't some kind of essential component of American capitalism, they are just jerks who live at the beach and have no skin in the game.
> In my experience, "intricate layers" of middle management is not a good thing

Well, the academic research paints a different picture. Here's what we know. Even within the same industries, in the same markets, there's a substantial dispersion in management practices and adherence to best practices between the best and worst firms.[1]

The firms with the best management practices have substantially higher productivity and profits than their poorly managed counterparts.[2] We also know from randomized control trials, that interventions designed to improve management practices at the organizational level have long-lasting effects on firm performance.[3]

Moreover this isn't just a case of "good management" meaning abusing employees. There's a strong positive correlation, at the firm level, between management best practices and employee satisfaction.[1]

That's a pretty strong indicator that management, at least done right, isn't just BS. That it makes a significant impact on tangible economic output. Incompetent management really is just pure inefficiency with no upside for anyone.

[1] https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.24.1.203
[2] https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/122/4/1351/1850493
[3] https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/128/1/1/1838606
I wouldn't say "You're wrong" is necessarily offensive per se, but I do think it tends to shut down discussion rather than encouraging it. I wouldn't have down-voted if not for the more egregious follow-up though.
At 0:29 a parked vehicle blinks out of recognition briefly (no box of any color), but it's partially obscured by another vehicle.
>ADA has a purpose. However, it should be limited to corporations above a certain revenue

The ADA accounts for this by saying that existing properties only need to remove barriers if "readily achievable". One of the factors that go into determining if that is the case is:

> The overall financial resources of the site or sites involved in the action; the number of persons employed at the site; the effect on expenses and resources;

Although, the ADA doesn't give you that out if you've made modifications to the property... which could very well be the case here, since this business didn't even exist until long after the ADA was in full force.
Very wrong, unfortunately. At my school there are students halfway through their degree who can't switch a git branch without using a drop-down menu in their IDE (and even then with difficulty) or have ever used the CLI for anything. The place students tend to learn these things is their internship. The first one is typically a turning point in their programming and tools ability
The answer to the question is no. It's not hard to imagine utopia where everyone's efforts are maximized to drive humanity forward.

But in reality it's up to the individual to decide what they want to do. Discussions about choosing the "best" use of talent often devolve into a subjective moral hierarchy and predeterminism.
Funny thing, in Russia everything is backwards. You basically could pay for newspaper with credit card, but car or real estate cost of credit card / bank transfer will be so high, so it's common to pay in cash.
> I personally would give my business to others even if i pay a bit more.

I’ve done this increasingly over the past six months. I used to enjoy the Amazon shopping experience but I just can’t trust them anymore.
I have. It sucks.
LIDAR will get cheaper and smaller though. I think Tesla’s argument that cameras+ML+tons of data>LIDAR is more compelling.
I wonder why this argument doesn't work on earth itself already.

Like when some one is sent from one country to another very far country to fight people. You'd wonder why don't use this logic, we are here, why fight for people thousands of miles away.

That's because throughout human existence, things like Identity, and an expectation of something in return eventually from the home country/society always exists.

The fact that Mars is far doesn't mean anything here, what matters relative time and periods of time people are willing to wait.
With some columnar databases NULLs are 'free' because they are a default, absent state or compressed away. Can be another reason to prefer them with very large datasets.
I thought they had dialed back on telemetry?
I miss my past Oracle career, I've diagnosed this "= NULL" rather than "IS NULL" in so many broken queries, slow queries because of the way Oracle indexing handles NULL.

There is a lot of discussion in this thread about whether this implementation of null checking in Oracle is appropriate, analysing it, but the current implementation is just fine, it has been tested by time.

The internet does tend to rehash the same arguments over and over!!! The internet forgets. I remember these arguments 20 years ago.
(Dustin Hoffman's voice) I hate, I Hate, I HATE Smeared Time!

I must admit my own personal bias in this matter, because I am in the process of implementing a GNSS receiver that very much cares about both the speed and phase of time. It seems that the computing industry would rather define the second based the mean solar day of Earth's rotations, despite the rest of the world defining it to be the number of shakes of a Cesium atom partway down Earth's gravity well.

But instead of slaving their clocks to the international system that actually measures the mean solar day (UT1R), they decided to muck with both the speed and phase of time. For just one 24 hour period. Every once in a while.

If I was king for a moment, and could pronounce just one edict it would be this: To transmit UT1R's offset in the GPS C/NAV message, and demand that the NTP timebase slaves itself to that.
It's hard to see search as anything but a winner takes all affair. If you have the best results, why wouldn't the world come to you?
Does it make sense to coalesce them away in a view? I thought most analysts are given star schemas implemented by views or ETL'd data anyway.
If you live or spend time in a out-facing room, you'll the amount of unnecessary beeping that goes on in this city. Honestly, I think I have it good, all things considered, but coming from Europe it's very annoying to hear people use the honk to "communicate" instead of "alert" (which is essentially what this article is about).
what is FSD in this context? fully self-driving?
For light usage I would beg to differ

I'll never forget getting told off by the S3 PM at Reinvent because I had the nerve to ask for global sort in the S3 file browser. "Do it yourself!" he said... like, I need to find one file, sorted by date, about once every other month. You want me to learn the CLI and write a custom script for THAT?! Un-effing-believable

They have a bajillion highly-paid programmers (and enough infra to power God himself) and yet one basic feature present pretty much elsewhere in both the online and offline worlds is too much to ask
Much chill. Wow.
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Toronto may be expensive but it's not SF-level expensive. Salaries may not compare but you don't have to worry about basic things like healthcare and high-powered weaponry in the streets.

Those are just the top two–there are many other reasons to move to Canada than just money.
To be fair you can rent a studio in a luxury condo (with doorman, pool, gym, curtain glass walls, etc.) for the price of a bunk bed in SF, around USD1600/mo. I know, I've done both.

Real estate is expensive to buy and salaries are low, though, that's for sure.
To anyone unfamiliar with G/O Media and Great Hill Partners, look up the phrase "Jim Spanfeller is a Herb." The story of Deadspin's extremely avoidable implosion is a debacle of private-equity mismanagement for the ages.
The original Star Trek had a good (though contested) claim to be the first (Black and White) interracial kiss on US public television[1]; Compare that with the Pew study "Intermarriage in the US 50 years since Loving v Virginia", showing that in 1990, about 63% of non-Blacks would be very or somewhat opposed to a close relative marrying a Black person[2] Pew. Imagine what that figure looked like in 1968.

If we don't see the original Star Trek as staking as many firm moral positions on issues where popular opinions are mixed, it says more about who we have become today, and how popular morality has adjusted, than about what was or wasn't radical or confronting at the time.

There doesn't seem to me to be any plausible claim that earlier Trek was previously less "confrontational" or deliberate in promoting its chosen morality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_interracial_kiss_on_tele...

[2] https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2017/05/18/2-public-views-on...
FWIW, Carnegie Mellon runs a "tools of the trade" course which is targeted to CS first-years, GPI [0], that is mostly taught by student TAs with the supervision of a professor. Asking students to create and teach the material seems to be a great way of solving this problem; TAs get teaching experience, students learn about the tools, professors are not duly overburdened.

[0] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~07131/f19/
And you probably need to run a virus scanner and it eats batteries for breakfast.

It’s all trade offs....
I'd probably be in Vancouver or Montreal otherwise.
CEOs don't add anything of economic value?

Riiiiiight.
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Agreed that it makes the pipe concat operator a lot less useful. Now PostgreSQL and MySQL both have CONCAT_WS which does replace NULLs with empty strings. It's also nice when you do need a common separator between all elements.
Would you not be implicitly assuming that the prior position was more accurate than the current one? If you have a sequence of consistent prior positions, then perhaps something like a Kalman filter would be appropriate, but I would guess that with something suddenly being revealed by a change in either party's position or that of a third party, you don't always have that.
Yawn. Popular as it is to falsely attribute blame for all of the corporate world's ills on consultants, it's inaccurate and lazy.

When you've worked for a consulting company, you learn that none of them are centers of innovation. They didn't create these trends. That's not what their strength is. They're not (and weren't) the ones inventing offshoring, telecommuting, barcodes, bluetooth, etc. They only greased the wheels to help existing trends in business to happen. How could they be the leaders of important business trends? The average tenure of people in consulting is about 3 years. They get in, help do some work a company wanted to do anyway, and get out. Maybe make a few 2x2 charts while they're there to point out the obvious to the oblivious.

Don't blame the consultants for getting companies or governments to become the soulless entities they are today. Blame lazy (or malicious or incompetent) thinking at companies and governments, fueled by the desires of everyone to have things at lower price, faster, and smaller, and to not pay for it now but shirk it off as debt to be paid by the future responsible people who can't vote right now.

We're all responsible for the trends in business, every one of us in our daily civic and commercial behavior. Consultants were just some of the messengers.
As pointed out elsewhere, this may not be just a ramp.

Glancing at the pic of the front of the business, it looks like they'd need about 5 vertical feet to cover both sets of stairs. To keep a ramp at appropriate grade (1:12), that may consume quite a lot of space. Unless I don't understand grades, 60-ish feet.

Once you add permitting costs, business downtime while the front of your building is gone, and possibly removing big chunks of that patio to make room, $100k doesn't seem that unreasonable. And that door looks narrow too; that may well need to be widened.

If interior renovations are required (bathroom not large enough?) it's easy for things to get very expensive, very fast. And in a 100 year old building, you quite likely also have lead paint and asbestos. A small asbestos remediation can easily run $13k (source: did one).

And if the business is going to be closed for more than a week, don't forget paying your employees. You obviously don't have to, but if you tell your employees you aren't paying them for 3-12 weeks, they probably won't still be there when you reopen.
Anecdotal, but my 4 year old Android phone (Sony Z5 Compact) runs Firefox and uBlock Origin with no issues at all.
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Don't TTY operators explain what's happening upfront?
Man, now imagine how the people who live on those residential side streets feel...
Jeff Bezos paid over $16,000 in parking tickets while renovating his DC mansion
Indeed, my impression has also been that Apple institutionally cares quite a bit about accessibility.

rolleiflex, have you tried sending an email about this problem to Tim Cook? tcook@apple.com

From what I understand real problems like yours can thereby get escalated to someone able to fix them.
They don't find it hard, because it's trivial: just restrict imports (i.e. available inventory). If there are less things to buy, inflation will rise as people "compete" to buy whatever is available. When you hit your target inflation number, relax the restriction on imports to reduce the inflation. Season to taste.

This policy likely has 2nd and 3rd order effects, as it will hurt other countries, but that's a simple strategy to artificially create inflation in CPI items that's fail-proof in execution. Prices will go up.

Restricting imports is much better than just giving people money, because they can use the extra money you give them on things like paying down their debt, or just put it in the bank and save it. Instead, you want to target the things they already buy and make those things scarce, so their price goes up (the definition of "inflation"). Food, fuel, and electricity are the easiest to monkey with because people are always buying them, and don't have much of a choice.

(If you can't restrict imports (or don't want to), you can simply print money to buy up the local inventory yourself and trash it/warehouse it/export it out of the country/set it on fire. The effect is the same: less inventory for the general population is available, causing the price of whatever is left to go up.)
Why, when watching any of the pompous Asgardia videos, am I unable to think of anything other than this? (Rufus T. Firefly of Freedonia) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSsUoxlSADk
is that a bad thing? Shouldn't the local governments be smarter in giving fair incentives to tech companies?

If $760 M is fair for HQ2, I don't see a problem if it isn't fair then the onus is on elected officials to explain their decisions.

I see value in Amazon's product and services, why should I care how they operate and whose arms they twist?

If I don't see value in Amazon I am free to buy products and services from other companies.
Time smearing is far from a "computing industry" standard. Has its use spread that far past Google and stuff running on their services?
Very good looking app, but please adding pricing to your website.It took far to many clicks on my mobile device to figure out the in-app purchase costs around $48, and even then I don't know if that is a subscription or not. The price is reasonable no reason to hide it.
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Maybe when all/most traffic is self-driving cars they could somehow be regulated to all use the same coordinated routing system without "cheating"... probably not.
High powered weaponry in the street? Someone has given you a very unrealistic conception of California.
The worst thing I can imagine would hardly leave only a 3 year gap.
Language barrier aside, Montréal seems like a hidden gem.
Not just the world's consultants, on one particular consultant who kept getting called out, and who is presently running for office. Not that I have any particular support for the 2020 candidates, but what does this author have against that particular individual? It's like the whole thing is written to get at the candidate by convincing people that McKinsey consultants are evil and then mentioning that he used to be one of them.
Not sure what big deal is. You learn somewhere along the way that you check for null values with “is” vs “=“. Done, write it on a sticky note if you need, and move on.

“Why isn’t it consistent??” - well a lot of systems have a lot of bat shit crazy inconsistencies, some times there for good reason. You learn to keep them straight and get your shit done.

If you want to learn the “why” every time you encounter a system design quirk, be my guest but you may be going down a time intensive rabbit hole with little pay off for yourself.
Yes, you can ban Tor altogether and be done with the whole thing. It is doable and there is no technical workaround for it.

The scenario I am proposing is actually worse: you use the feeling of anonymity Tor proposes to uncover opponents. Yes, my tactic proposes you have a backdoor into all of ISP's infrastructure. I don't see that as a crazy requirement for most countries, even democracies.

Disguising Tor traffic does not work well, and China has deployed several years ago already a tech that recognizes weird streams.

Yes, you could be cloud hosting from outside the country. In the case of China though, that's likely to not work as most encrypted traffic crossing the border gets dropped (I guess unless it is HTTPS from a whitelisted source )
The median annual compensation for the median Fortune 500 company is $72,000 per year.[1] So total redistribution would represent an increase of 0.3% to the take-home pay of the average big company worker.

Again, no matter how you want to slice it, aggregate CEO pay is simply too small in magnitude relative to aggregate American salaries to have any meaningful impact. At most you could say something about it being symptomatic of a larger problem, but CEO pay is absolutely not the direct cause of slow growth in wages.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2018/05/25/ceo...
Toronto house prices are about 3/4 of SF, but salaries are about 1/3 to 1/2.

Far harder to own a home in Toronto on a tech salary.

And if you get a tech job in SF, you’ve got great health insurance, so not a major obstacle.
Anyone who criticizes McKinsey has no idea how consulting, or real companies, or the real world, works.

"Beware of the 'real world'; a speaker's appeal to it is always an invitation to not challenge his tacit assumptions."

My suspicion is that Edsger Dijkstra wouldn't have found management consultants to be terribly useful.
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Right, the relevant part is that there are 5 people whose annual salary totals $70 million. That is tremendously too high, and allows those 5 people to have undue influence on the society that allowed them to get such power. I'm sorry that I implied that the only benefit of this point was the redistribution part.
>>The universe will end and it will be for nothing.

Let's solve one problem at a time. The nearest ones are Global warming, war, disease, asteroids etc.

Once you go to space, you will have new problems. We'll worry about the universe then.
I would say obviously the answer is that users paying for premium levels of service should get faster routes, isn't that how this sort of thing is done?
to be fair, "don't be evil" is still there, they just close with it rather than opening and closing with it.

https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/
In case it wasn't clear, I'm not making that claim. I'm simply laying out the most generous conceivable case to show why it's mathematically impossible for CEO compensation to directly explain slow secular growth in wages.
So basically as soon as you ask it you are pretty much obligated to hire them.
Do you explain why, to those who don’t make it to the next round? I did one of these, and the response I got was essentially “You didn’t make it”, i.e I had no idea of what was wrong with my code or why I didn’t make it through.
> "You don't have to sell yourself out to make money. If you do, that's a choice."

You'll find that the many people today (like the author) will consider you to be very privileged for having the opportunity to do so.
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The thing that always killed it for me was the utterly bizarre arbitrary federated login requirement in an otherwise self hosted system. It meant it was impossible to use on an intranet, not to mention defeating the self hosted purpose.
Not even close.

I’d say expenses are 50% higher (Toronto to SF, mostly housing), but income is 100-200% higher.
That would be fine. If the cost of living matched these lower salaries.
Yeah, until we're above 500Hz I'd rather have a significantly faster non-realtime main system, with a small realtime watchdog/backup.
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It seems to be resolved now, but for many years the instant I crossed into a national park the maps would be about 2 metres off from the location reported by GPS. It was just enough to trigger frequent rerouting, which would fail due to no data signal.
Same story with certain college's Moocs. Taken down due to lack of accurate subtitles.