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Is the ageism stuff really not true? Even if you want to work for Microsoft or Google, albeit not in Silicon Valley?

I mean, you can never be sure, but I can just say that, being well into my 40's myself, and working on the East Coast (RTP, NC area), and having worked for everything from tiny startups to giant multi-nationals (in tech and out of tech), I haven't seen the kind of rampant ageism you hear described on here. And I have friends who work at Microsoft, Google, etc., and I haven't heard anything from them to suggest that it's rampant either.

I get the sense people won't take me seriously if I'm starting in a junior role at 30+ years old

People change careers all the time, for various reasons. And yeah, maybe some people will look askance at you for it, but not all will. Now, if you're betting the farm on working for ONE specific company (let's say Google) than the reality is it might not happen. But it might not happen for lots of reasons. But if you take a broader view of things and don't hang your self-worth up on working for a "FAANG", you should be fine. Work for an insurance company, or an auto parts retailer, whatever. The world is a lot bigger than Apple, Google, and Facebook.
And you are one of the people who said it should be removed!
In Germany, every citizen is allowed to watch the counting at his local election buro. I think that is what is needed, and the larger parties send one member to every single room where counting is happening. So you need to involve a lot of people if you want to forge an election at scale.
Personally, I’m voting to make the USA a socialist country, like nearly every other first-world country on Earth is. I hope a lot of other folks will join me.
Abuse is a heavily loaded word, and as an aside, I hate the cheapening of language in modern times. Assault is another that's getting cheapened. Someone bluntly telling another "you're dead wrong" isn't abuse IMO.

But to your main point, I've seen my share of the polite leading the polite. If there is a general level of competence, fine, work can still proceed. But often, workplaces need an asshole who will voice their opinion in blunt language. There are moments when diplomacy causes, at best, avoidable delays, but at worst completely fucked projects.
> Prof. Matsuzawa, through his cognitive research of chimpanzee Ai

I had to do a double take there.
>i actually prefer to run Tomato, but archer c7 is not broadcom :(

Not being Broadcom is a very good thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass

> ...a man, being just as hungry as thirsty, and placed in between food and drink, must necessarily remain where he is and starve to death.

> — Aristotle, On the Heavens 295b, c. 350 BC

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The paradox of choice is: the more choices we have, the LESS IMPORTANT that choice becomes. Instead of sitting still and starving, it is more important to "make a choice" rather than debate over which choice to make.

A more solid example: PyGame, SFML and SDL do the same job, instead of debating which one to use... you should just pick one (even at random) and then complete your task. Rather than debate over the pros / cons of each framework.
Those methods of installing stuff suck too, and its not like you have to pick one of the three...

The main problem isn't malicious code, you can review the script after all, the main problem is the app making unwarranted assumptions about your install/distribution, then breaking things in the process.
> If there is consensus at a societal level that certain hateful speech should be prevented for the general good of society

I would be interested to know (1) How you have determined such a consensus exists and (2) How you have determined that preventing hate speech is in fact generally good for society.
Sometimes this means a bunch of things. For clarity, are you supervising people on the team or mostly guiding the team's work on a specific product?

In addition to others' recommendations about reading "The Manager's Path" (this is a must-do! An excellent book) I would take a look at how the team makes technical decisions and make sure that's healthy, and also make sure you have an understanding of the core value your product is trying to deliver by talking with your Product Manager.

If you are the defacto Product manager, make sure you know what the business is trying to accomplish so you can build the right thing and prioritize appropriately.

The more I do this work, the more a clear, open, decisionmaking process and a clear understanding of the value increment power everything else. Context and a way to talk about it.

One other note: your job will change. Know that. Be OK with it.

Good luck!
The referenced Bogleheads thread: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=302399...
I enjoy carrying a paper diary and using it along with a fountain pen to take notes and remembrances. Looking back through them is much more valuable than looking back through any sort of digital calendar or journal, while being much less expensive and prone to disintegration.

Gardening and the simple joy of starting seedlings and watching them grow into fruitful plants is another life-improver enhanced by the most minimal of tech (although choosing seeds online and their low cost delivery to my home is probably mediated by some considerable tech nowadays).
I tried switching Parallels to the Apple hypervisor once because I was curious. I ran a quick x264 encode to test performance, and Apple's hypervisor was quite clearly worse.

Far from a comprehensive test, but, yeah, there's probably a reason Parallels defaults to their custom kext.
It is definitely not free.

But the answer is, as always: it depends.

A good way to start is RTFM. Google has many guides on how to optimize your website for their indexing service.
I was in this exact position a few years ago! I led a group for a year and a half, with somewhat mixed success. We did some pretty great successes, but also some pretty embarrassing problems that were at least partially attributable to my inexperience. I learned a ton though! The below is my experience, and may or may not translate to yours, but believe me, it was learned the hard way.

Being a tech lead is only partly about the tech, and mostly about the lead. You'll ultimately succeed or fail based on your team.

Being an effective leader requires a completely different set of skills than being an effective engineer. This, as silly as it sounds now, took me by surprise. You may have a decade-plus of dev experience but still be starting from zero when it comes to people. (Or not; some people will be better equipped for this than others. I wasn't so much.)

Find a mentor. Someone you can be completely honest with, and who will be honest with you. Bonus points if they know your team well
too -they'll see things that you won't.

You may have to be pretty intentional about finding out what's going on in your team. Once you're in a position of authority, people won't always feel free to tell you.

Share as much context with your team as you can. They'll be more motivated if they understand why their work is important and has value. Even if you understand this... people aren't mind readers. They don't know what's in your head.

Part of your job now is to be available to people. This may mean you don't get to actually work on the tech yourself as much (or at all). It may mean you get interrupted more. That's may or may not annoy you, but you need to make the best choices you can for your team now, not (just) for you.

Share success when you can. You may find yourself in situations where people attribute your team's success to you... and while that's not wrong (you're the lead after all) it's also a great opportunity to share credit with those in your team. It's worth so much to people when you do this.

People are not interchangeable, and treating them as if they invites trouble. You can have great people, who still have a hard time working together for whatever reason. Be aware of inter-team dynamics; they can sink you. (Situations like this are why it's great to have a mentor.)

It's important to keep a close eye on how things are going, but don't confuse that with micro-management. Your best people are going to want some autonomy, and it's best for everybody if you find a way to give it to them. If things aren't going so well your instinct may be to tighten your grip... not necessarily wrong, but consider that may come across as a lack of trust on your part.

Above all: think of your job as less about being in control (though you may be) and more about fostering an environment where your team can do your best work. Get them what they need, shield them from the crap, give them what opportunities you can. Don't be selfish or mean. Be kind, be empathatic.

Good luck.
Nice meme, but doesn't exactly jive with the facts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_socialist_states
I probably read about three full papers per week. The rest I skim similar to you.
It is not entirely true. This sacrifice entails two things. On one side, without a lockdown, people in Human can seek medical help in other cities and provinces when they get sick. After a lockdown, local medical resources are in severe shortage hence higher death rate. On the other side, it limits the spread of the disease for the good of other provinces and hence the rest of the world. If this isn't sacrifice, I'm not sure what sacrifice is.
Hopefully his next insight will discover pair programming. Then he can ditch the recordings.
That is amazing! I hope to see more posts like that.

Maybe more people will notice how simple things are outside of the aws realm.

Unfortunately more you use, harder to leave aws.
AFAIK nowhere in the world software engineering is as appreciated and treated seriously as in the US.

I assume maybe Canada and Australia are very close. But in some countries (not gonna name names), it's not even worth to put yourself through all these years of hard education. You'd be better off becoming an accountant.
This is definitely from the pre-Communist Era where Communism was the new idea in town and was thought to be the brilliant way for society to go.

If you were to do a "pyramid" with Communism, you could remove all intermediates (since intellectuals, the middle-class and religious people are systematically killed in the process of bringing Communism), the (un-elected) despotic elites at the top feast while the rest is living in utter misery, starving, or spending time in gulag(s) working for free as slaves for the Greater Good.
I am irritated, maybe even a little bit angry. Sad, disappointed, slightly defeated. Pensive. Introspective.

Offended, not at all.
This requires the phone to be unlocked to do most of this, doesn't it? What is the attack vector here, someone leaving their phone unlocked on a table and not paying attention to the screen?
is it propaganda because you don't like the message?
«In capitalism, man exploits man. In communism, the opposite is true.»
SO maybe there's no agreement on what that word means. Because
'true Socialist' countries collapsed years ago. And look at Venezuela today. Not something to be emulated.
A Dog of Flanders
I don't care to have a job where my mistakes could possibly end up killing people months/years from now, but I wouldn't mind seeing what he means by "hardcore coding test".
20 years ago you "needed" Java, C++, CORBA, COM, DCOM, OLE, ActiveX, ATL, MFC, Win32, DCE, etc. etc., yadda, yadda. The names have changed, but I don't feel like the concept has changed much, as far as employers wanting people with a laundry list of skills. But you never really need all of them, or at least you don't need to be an expert on them all... you can learn what you need as you go. At least, that's worked for me for the past 25+ years.
>> Tallyfy, a SaaS startup based in St. Louis

Ironically, I'm based in St. Louis, looking for business automation software for my company based in St. Louis and the only reason I know Tallyfy exists is because of this HN article.
The size of the plate here isn't the amount of wealth, it's the number of people on that level.
From the article:

> The work is based on Nicolas Lokhoff's 1901 caricature of the Russian Empire hierarchy by the Union of Russian Socialists.

A pie-based version, for those who remember Bush declaring his intent to make the pie higher:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DANUXO-GQwU
It's very slow, but I'm always impressed by how functional it is and how easy it is to find what I'm looking for. I'd rate it 7/10, which is higher than I'd rate a lot of Google's stuff.
My Fedora and FreeBSD laptops have been solid workhorses for years - I'm on my third MBP at work and I loathe the thing. It's hard to say how much of that is the new keyboard and all the corporate spyware it's saddled with, but it has been decidedly less stable for me.
I don't think you can solve these problems with a stick. Quite the contrary I think that is part of the problem.

The more laws and rules you enact, the more laws and rules you see people ignore and break. This just undermines totally respect for law and order.

I believe in what economist Hernando de Soto has said about laws: Laws are discovered not made.

You need to align laws with what is actually acceptable in your country at the moment. You cannot escape into a rosy Utopia where your underdeveloped country is going to somehow emulate a rich well developed democracy over night, by enacting the same laws.

How a country works, and its laws are two different things. On paper Russia is an amazing democracy. In practice not so much.

I see developing trust and confidence in the laws of the land is the most important thing you can do. For that to happen I think you simply need to legalize a lot of the crimes everybody does.

Once you get people to actually respect and follow the laws you have, you gradually start tightening those laws. You gradually try to nudge people towards better behavior.

Transparency is more important than strict laws IMHO. If e.g. a particular government official takes a $5 bribe for every application, then make it public and legal. Post a note that says you pay him or her $5 for the application.

You know that fees where originally illegal bribes?
Ideally one uses mainly kickstart commands to configure the system during the installation - then the installer (Anaconda) takes care for everything for you. If you use custom scripts with kickstart, you are pretty much on your own, like with any other custom script.

BTW, maybe open an RFE to include a helper script in the installation environment for easy & robust file downloading ?
Data from Spotify suggest that listeners are gloomiest in February
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The funny thing is that if you don't like socialism but you live in a socialist country, well... you can't leave. They build walls to keep you in.
This will be an "assisted living" home, not a regular apartment.
Please take your nonsense somewhere else.
Announcing Peek-a-View
I vouched for your comment since it seems to have been downvoted into oblivion. I don't understand why people took offense with what you had to say. paper diaries are a lot more valuable and require totally different parts of the brain than idiotic cloud enabled note-taking apps.
It was a good example of how to build a language in 4 years but the JVM language space is already filled to the brim. The only way to stand out is by having a large vendor bless it (Kotlin on Android).
Anyone else notice that when you update OSM, Google maps miraculously updates too?
I've gone hybrid for todo lists. Handwritten in GoodNotes on iPad. Seems to give me the best of both worlds - better memory retention that comes from physically writing stuff down, but with search and copy/paste functionality.
Many politicians will lie and most will stretch the truth to win votes. Trump and the Republicans are not unique. This article reads like an effort by Democrats to explain away in advance their possible failure in 2020.
Using a bidet instead of toilet paper. I live in Canada, and this is an uncommon practice.
The score would almost certainly qualify as a credit report that you are guaranteed access to buy the fair credit reporting act. Pretty much, this article gets the facts wrong in the first two sentences.
You may not like it, but this is what peak private-markets-for-public-goods looks like.
Dead tree books.
Is true when normalized for localization? Is the average landlord in SF wealthier or poorer than the average programmer in SF? Is the average landlord in NYC wealthier or poorer than the average programmer in NYC? I don't have figures, so I honestly don't know, but I wouldn't bet on the programmer.

Of course if you work remote with an SF salary, that's a different story...
Not at all. He didn't write the tests first, then write the code. So it wasn't test-driven at all.

If we ignore critical process differences, then sure everything is 'like' everything else.
From personal experience: Yes, correct markup and h1 tags etc (“On-Page SEO“) all matter. Set everything up correctly, that should take your frontend dev a couple days at most for a small to medium site. But that will do almost nothing unless it’s coupled with loads of backlinks. Get a tool like ahrefs or semrush (they’re expensive because they’re good, but a one-week trial is enough to take a look around in the beginning). There you can then see how many backlinks your competitors have and track your own rankings. Concentrate on 1-2 keywords in the beginning and fill your site with well-written content for those keywords, interlink everything on your own site, and then go get backlinks. Yes, you can buy backlinks on Fiver, but those are terrible and will probably do more harm than good. Make something good and get people to write about it.
The last time I gave Mill a shot, I couldn't find a way to authenticate into private artifactory repositories, which made it kind of a nonstarter. Do you know if this has since been added?
Ask HN: Why is my post not visible?
I´ve made a submission but it doesn't seem to show anywhere.
Can see it under "my submissions" though and it has an orange wildcard icon.
Does not include any links and cannot imagine it is any kind inappropriate.
Is there an approval process that takes time or any other thing i might have missed about it?
Its not a repeat post and content wise I cannot imagine any reason why it would be auto-flagged or such.
E. coli long-term evolution experiment
I will say the US Digital Service is super tempting until you see the salary.
> Hillary was corrupt.

Citation needed.

> She had the DNC stack the previous primary for her.

Citation needed. She got millions more votes than her opponent.

This is exactly the sort of conspiracy-minded nonsense that Sanders and Trump thrive on.
Would be great to see how this translates into actual $ for the business. Is this mentioned somewhere else? The high CPCs indicate that there IS some value. But in general some people/businesses can make a living with an audience of 100 and others not with an audience of 100k.
People with enough gumption to upend their lives and leave everything they knew behind for an uncertain future … it's the "right stuff"
The "Pyramid of the Marxist System" would be a giant mountain of human skulls.
Database of algorithms used by local governments around U.S.
> You might be happier.

Yes.

Sure, having a nicer environment/project certainly is preferable, but sometimes you can't choose everything, and if you let the shitty outside make you do shitty work, then you might feel a lot more miserable.
Here in Dublin you can make good money (for Europe). All the tech US companies are based here now.
It'd be nice to see an example of a socialist county that hadn't been constantly attacked and sabotaged by capitalist countries and allowed to go its own way. Then at least we'd be able to do a fairer comparison.
What conflict of interest are you talking about? I'm saying that I am not trying to convert Flat Earthers or fervent Sanders/Trump supporters but merely explaining what makes them exist.
I started journaling daily back in 2016. No apps, no computer. just paper and pen. Some days pages pour forth of writing. Other days I simply set a task of finding and writing down a good quote to save for later. This investment of time for me has yielded better discernment as I can look back at interactions I've documented and how I felt when events unfolded. Bonus, there are no notifications to interrupt you and in a world full of interruptions, the pen and paper have none.
I wouldn't use the word narcissism to describe this. I'm worried about suggesting too many things, so maybe just consider these two:

1. Your traits and actions, both good and bad, what are they? Can you describe them, in other words, can you describe yourself through them? Try to do it, and do not use the word "am." Try to write down as many as you can.

(In other words, never "I am a fisherman", only "I fish.")

2. Spend time trying to consciously improve other peoples lives. Work through the barriers you have to doing this and your life will improve, too.

Practice these. If it's not immediately obvious why both of these are necessary, give it time.
I think it depends on the context. if the organization is overall reasonably competent and the engineers turn out to be relatively low drama this can work out great.

some dev organizations I have use a rotating release shepherd osition (gatekeeper). it usually works out pretty well, and junior engineers get a taste of what its like to live on the other side. its perfectly functional for a senior engineer to mentor a junior manager.

the one thing that concerns me about this story is hiring. my first tech lead position they gave me some heads and I promptly hired two smart-talking bozos with years of experience that wasted my time for several months until thankfully one of them quit and I got up the courage to fire the other.
The concept you mention of the working class keeping the pyramid stable is the intent of the image.

> The basic message of the image is the critique of the capitalist system, with its hierarchy of power and wealth. It also illustrates that the working class is supporting all others, and if it would withdraw their support from the system it could, literally, topple the existing social order.
This is true, but it comes at the cost of diminished influence for the person doing the assholery.
I use candles in the evening to get more pleasant, soothing light in my apartment. Much better for the mood than LEDs.

Does Aeropress still count?
On which device and OS?
The immigration process itself contains a huge selection bias. Immigrating to America is not an easy process; it's long, confusing and intended to dissuade all but the most persistent of people. Given that, I would expect to find that people who immigrate in general are more intelligent and hard working than an average person.
Which is cause and which is effect? (It could be a virtuous cycle.)
Funny, I always assumed that there would be no application for binwalk other than for extracting binary firmware images of embedded devices.

Using binwalk for CTF challenges is actually a new insight for me :)
"They might be like, 'Hey, you posted from this hamburger place in Germany, maybe you like Germany, or hamburgers, or traveling, we'll just throw everything at you,'" Mosley said. "We fluctuate who's sending to what account. One week I might be sending to 17 accounts, and then the next week I only have four."

Would probabaly deliver more interesting ad results.
This sounds to me like the type of thing an employer would look for to have a reason not to hire. If potential employers are looking for this, something is already wrong. It could be market-driven (eg. too many people to choose from) or they already don't want to hire you, or something else.