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We're hiring an experienced full stack developer to help us build HourStack. You'll be working on the next version of HourStack's web app along with the infrastructure to power it, our mobile apps, and our future third-party ecosystem. This is an incredible opportunity for the right developer who wants serious responsibility, influence, autonomy, and support while building a unique product that is loved by its customers.

Technologies:

We'll serve up a single API for internal and external consumption via PHP with the Laravel framework (open to other options here as well). The web app will be headless using React or Vue.js and our mobile apps use Java and Swift. You won't work directly on the mobile apps, but you'll support them via the API. You'll be working with lots of common technologies and architectures such as Redis, MySQL, Webpack, Sass, ES6, Typescript, REST, GraphQL, etc. and our cloud of choice is DigitalOcean.

Qualifications:

You've built solid products that customers love in the B2B SaaS space and have experience scaling the infrastructure to support many thousands of users. You have a good feel for great UX and enough of a design eye to make UI decisions when required. You are familiar with all of the technologies we use and have deep experience with most so you can hit the ground running.

You'll also need to have experience working remotely and you'll need the skills that come along with that such as excellent written and verbal communication, self-motivation, flexibility, reliability, etc.

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Currently our team is in Seattle, though we work remotely and are willing to consider candidates from other parts of the US. This is a full time position with:

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In being empathetic to their needs, make sure you're also being "empathetic" to your own needs. This means recognizing that their "need" to get their development work done without spending too much money on you is directly opposed to your need to have healthcare and money for rent, food, etc.

Obviously neither of these needs can be successfully ignored, but thinking of it this way helps me mitigate the guilt that comes with asking for more, without engaging the "winning" rhetoric even subconsciously.
> I mean why do they care. If I save up money and take a year off every few years? That just means if I get bored of them I'll walk out.

Your last sentence is exactly why they care. They don't want people who will quit when they get bored; they want people who need the job.

I know people who have used words like "flaky" and "transient" and "unreliable" to describe people with gaps. To the people making such judgements, an involuntary gap indicates incompetence, and a voluntary gap indicates someone who is confident, independent, and unlikely to put up with bullshit (and thus more likely to quit).
Pointing out that climate models are predictions is not the problem. The models are in fact predictions and they accumulate errors the further out they project. That's just the reality. The problem is pretending otherwise. That muddies the waters and literally fuels and strengthens climate change deniers as it gives them a leg to stand on. Remove that leg. We need to make it harder to dismiss, which can be better accomplished by being clear and factual.

Here is the problem, here is the hard science, here is how we can fix it.

Flat earthers and the like don't get nearly as far in part because they have no such counterpoint to leverage. They remain on the fringes, not taken seriously. Climate change deniers could be relegated to the same fate if we'd be clear about predictions vs science, and ease up on the doomsaying. Doomsayers tend to be ignored for good reason. The world is always said to be ending, yet it never does. Instead it's become drastically better, historically. Global warming is a problem to be solved. Stick to the science.
I'm not so sure about that RE Google share price.

Even if they were to magically slice 20% of the share price, it would immediately start a buying rally. Anything that would have a permanent effect on the share price would probably have to threaten the very existence of the company.
God, what the christ do you even do in such a situation? I'm guessing just clear the runways and go for the emergency landing at the lowest speed you can with as little fuel as possible?

And of course, it's Air Canada. I have had/heard of no end of maintenance issues with their planes.

My heart goes out. I hope they can land this one safely.
Savers are bad for business because liquidity stops when money hits them.

US has such a strong economy because barely anyone save. Japan had so much savings that they literally need exports to survive, there’s no home market to speak of because everyone save so much. Once export tanks, their economy tank.
> A lot of climate research is based entirely on experimenting with these climate models.

I'd say all of thinking is based entirely on experimenting with mental models. Are you saying your thinking is invalid? :))
Over the years, we (@anishathalye, @jjgo, @jonhoo) have helped teach several classes at MIT, and over and over we have seen that many students have limited knowledge of the tools available to them. Computers were built to automate manual tasks, yet students often perform repetitive tasks by hand or fail to take full advantage of powerful tools such as version control and text editors. Common examples include holding the down arrow key for 30 seconds to scroll to the bottom of a large file in Vim, or using the nuclear approach to fix a Git repository (https://xkcd.com/1597/).

At least at MIT, these topics are not taught as part of the university curriculum: students are never shown how to use these tools, or at least not how to use them efficiently, and thus waste time and effort on tasks that should be simple. The standard CS curriculum is missing critical topics about the computing ecosystem that could make students’ lives significantly easier.

To help mitigate this, we ran a short lecture series during MIT’s Independent Activities Period (IAP) that covered all the topics we consider crucial to be an effective computer scientist and programmer. We’ve published lecture notes and videos in the hopes that people outside MIT find these resources useful.

To offer a bit of historical perspective on the class: we taught this class for the first time last year, when we called it “Hacker Tools” (there was some great discussion about last year’s class here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19078281). We found the feedback from here and elsewhere incredibly helpful. Taking that into account, we changed the lecture topics a bit, spent more lecture time on some of the core topics, wrote better exercises, and recorded high-quality lecture videos using a fancy lecture capture system (and this hacky DSL for editing multi-track lecture videos, which we thought some of you would find amusing: https://github.com/missing-semester/videos).

We’d love to hear any insights or feedback you may have, so that we can run an even better class next year!

-- Anish, Jose, and Jon
Yes. Chatbots (or "Virtual Assistants") for handling routine customer care inquiries. IBM Watson Assistant is the leader in this increasingly crowded (Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and dozens of startups are competing with them) space. The tech-savvy may look down at the current state of "AI chatbots" but large enterprises in all industries currently spend a fortune on staffing call centers that predominantly handle questions like "I forgot my password can you reset it?", "I lost my bill, can you send me another copy?", and "I'd like to sign up/cancel/modify a service". Chatbots work well enough to handle 30-40% of these types of inquiries at a far lower cost than a human (who is mainly just reading a script anyway).
The real natural rate should be in line with the private markets with regards to safe, liquid short term assets. There is an issue when you hit 0% nominal, called the zero lower bound problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_lower_bound). Mechanically you can solve that by keeping inflation high enough that you don't reach negative nominal rates even when you have negative real rates.
TeamViewer stores user passwords in registry, encrypted with hard-coded key
According to Air Canada, it was a tire rupture (one of 10) on takeoff and the emergency landing is due to an engine issue. Presumably the tire entered the engine.

"A spokesperson for Air Canada told Sky News: "Air Canada flight AC837, Madrid to Toronto, experienced an engine issue shortly after take-off. A tire also reportedly ruptured on take-off, one of 10 on this model of aircraft."

https://news.sky.com/story/air-canada-flight-returning-to-ma...
I agree with your views. I think there's far more to gain, at many levels, from going to the moon and getting good at it. NASA's Artemis project is a bold and interesting proposal for our return to the moon (full disclosure, I might soon be neck-deep in a project connected to Artemis).

One thing people who are not exposed to the realities of aerospace don't understand is just how difficult and improbable this stuff can be.

As complex as it is, going to the ISS is child's play when compared to the moon and beyond. For one thing, the earth's magnetic field and atmosphere provide valuable protection in near space. Once you leave that protective blanket, as I like to say, everything out there is trying to kill you and drill holes into you at the speed of light.

I think we can, with effort and investment, achieve regular missions to the moon and slowly build-up our knowledge as well as a solid base of operations. In, perhaps, 25 years or more, we could consider launching into deeper space from the moon.

I just don't see the value of risking so much just to set foot on Mars. People are far more likely to die a horrible death due to our hubris than anything else. The risk would reduce substantially if we could prove we are capable of reliable and safe missions to the moon. There is no way I would want to send people to mars without first demonstrating exceptional capabilities and safety on the moon.
More info, it seems one tire has blown out and debris entered and damaged one of the engines. It's a Boeing 767-300.
https://www.thenational.ae/world/europe/air-canada-plane-to-...
It's not hard doing it in an absolute sense. E.g. drop a bomb on yourself. It's hard doing it without messing everything else so much as to not be worth it.
I'm not involved with the airline industry in any way, but I would think that since landing gear is a highly mechanical, moving piece with plenty of failure points, airliners are probably designed with a margin of error to withstand gearless landings without loss of life.
I suspect the problem is creating only a little bit of inflation. Hyperinflation is easy, just ask the Weimar republic.
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Need not be a big problem, some planes landed missing a wheel without even noticing.

https://avherald.com/h?article=4c29e455&opt=0

https://avherald.com/h?article=4b92a56d&opt=0

https://avherald.com/h?article=4b4af152&opt=0

https://avherald.com/h?article=4a7d012c&opt=0
> [PHP is] so fast and elegant to consume a (SOAP or REST) webservice.

I would never choose PHP to consume a SOAP webservice if I could use C# or Java instead. And I say that as someone who's been consuming SOAP with PHP since 2001, from travel industry suppliers, major CRMs/ERPs and a bunch of quirky services.

PHP's SOAP library just isn't very good. From what I recall it doesn't support some of the security extensions natively, struggles with namespacing, has small changes to data structures when serializing/deserializing (I recall attributes/values being a pain to setup) and worked with some endpoints but not others. That could be the endpoints' fault, but when Microsoft is producting it - I sure expect the endpoint to work with PHP's bundled SOAP library.

Multiple times I fell back to constructing the XML myself (sometimes with the DOM builder, other times with handcrafted XML strings that were tested in SOAP-UI until they worked and given placeholders for data.

Last week I had to investigate ow a service had got the wrong data, and neded to load the XML response again to see the data in our app. The PHP XML extensions give a different structure to the SOAP extension; to get back the result you have to mock the response in a subclass of SoapClient, feed in your XML and let the extension parse it. That works, and is elegant in a way - but it could be so much better.

Rant over ;)
Since someone else addressed call centers, there's a million managers in blue collar fields that would kill for some software that can take in all their purchases and work orders (and those of everyone else who bought the software) and spit out insights like "don't piss your money away on the expensive grease Reddit told you to use, machines running the cheap stuff don't seem to cost anymore to operate". These are the kinds of things they could find out themselves if they wanted but can't justify spending the man hours.
> there wasn’t a single soul who didn’t enjoy bunny hopping or had mastering it as a goal

Even someone who never heard of Counter-Strike could figure out that this is a false statement.
I think you're underestimating the amount of work involved in creating a web browser by multiple orders of magnitude.

If it really took a year to make a bug-free browser, we would have 100 of them instead of 0.
>But that it's only productivity per person, not the total amount produced.

I'm not sure that's true because of differing expertise, bouncing ideas off someone, and help in getting unstuck. I'm guessing productivity peaks in a team of 3-5.
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Depends on the wind I guess. Under favourable conditions, a skilled pilot should be able to land without loss of life even without landing gear at all.
It's been awhile since I've been in C#, but in other static languages like Rust and Kotlin with type inference, it would look more like:

public Result<SomethingGood, SomethingBad> PerformUpdate(int goodThingId, UpdateForm form) { ... return Err(error); ... return Ok(obj); }

which is considerably less boilerplate-y. When there are three cases you want to consider, that's no longer a sum type consisting of just success or failure - that's a different sum type. Maybe even represented as Result<ThreeCases, Error>.
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Did the user leave the field blank in the form or did they never even see it (multi step processes etc.)

Did you want to update the field to null or not update it at all is another one.
Feed of the airport, supposedly should see the landing from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B189mltra0&feature=youtu.be
Gear up landings aren't that uncommon in smaller planes.

A similar 767 made a gear up landing in 2011 with no injuries. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOT_Polish_Airlines_Flight_16
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Savers may not invest in high risk businesses, but the opposite of saving is not investing, it's spending, generally on consumer goods rather than on anything "productive". There's a different conversation to be had about how much consumer spending benefits those high risk businesses, but only a fraction of income earned by a business gets reinvested into plant and equipment in any case.
Really? Where are you from?

This might help explain how Santa delivers all those presents in "one night".
Dillon from Paperspace here. If anyone is interested, this is actually part of a longer multi-part series covering GauGAN in-depth. Here's the link to the full series: https://blog.paperspace.com/tag/series-gaugan/
> I wouldn’t say marketing is his skill. His skill is getting shit done. The only reason why we listen to his (crazy) words is because he actually does what he sets out to do.

This, he is actually a horrible public speaker, and has a knack for going on tangents that often confuse even his biggest proponents.

But, he has the Public's adoration because his insight and vision can bring people like Shotwell (who really runs SpaceX) into the foray and allows for the coordination of a great talent pool to work for extended hours, and what amounts to not much money in a selfless manner and this captivates the imagination of the People and subsequently inspires them to want to be a part of it all.
We call it panicking because there's no assumption that you're always able to catch panics. Panicking is an AAAH EVERYTHING WENT WRONG kind of thing, which might trigger an immediate abort if the program is compiled in super-ultra-speedy-make-debugging-really-hard mode; if your code panics, it's always the programmer's fault.

The language provides a way of kinda-sorta recovering from an everything-goes-wrong situation only to be nice to you, and not because that's a thing that's generally possible. You can't always recover from a segfault, or a buffer overrun, or the rest of the kind of things that cause panicking, even if you know that they're theoretically possible in advance, because if you could you would've fixed them already. The best you can do is make your web server return a 500, send logs, ditch its cache, restart in a sane state and hope for the best. You're not recovering that half-finished task, because the programmer can't reason about the program state in a situation where their code has been shown to be wrong.

Panics are only for exceptional failure cases. If this confuses people, it's (probably) because they only thought they understood; they needed confusing.
The Coronavirus Outbreak So Far and Why It's Concerning
Frankly, that's because C# doesn't support proper discriminated unions in a concise way.

F# is a lot better at using result types. You don't even need to specify the return type.
All well and good when youve strong economic growth, but all that stored capital comes in handy when there’s a shock. It provides a way to make money from your less well prepared neighbours ...

But seriously, there’s no harm damping things a bit. Runaway growth can have its issues too. I reckon best is to keep your inflation just ahead of population growth.
Hmmm how about:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/371180/Super_3D_Noahs_Ark...

It's actually made with the original doom engine.
By using your skills to fund coins and bonuses. Even if you can't hack it, change the damn date forward and earn that ching!
Watson didn't rise or fall, it was the centerpiece in IBM's marketing campaign, which worked for a while before they moved on. It never got beyond or matched the state of the art in anything, that wasn't the point, it got the name "Watson" on TV.

IBM wanted to prove that they employed smart people, so they hired some smart people and had them write a computer program to play Jeopardy. Did it matter that it had nothing to do with anything they were selling? Perhaps only IBM has those figures.
This is a sure sign that government paper is crowding out private investment and destroying the eurozone economy. This is solvable through higher inflation.

https://medium.com/@b.essiambre/the-world-deserves-a-pay-rai...
Common risks are Aircraft skidding of the runway, fire in the wheel well.

Mitigating factors: Rear wheel brakes should still work. Reverse thrust can further help slow down the aircraft.

Given the response time of emergency evacuation + fire response teams, likelihood of mass casualties are low.
Well, thank you for that helpful suggestion. I was interested in knowing whether the research needed more data points and if so, whether a 'citizen scientist' could contribute.
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