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> yes there are distractions but you also learn new things

I've found that, in open plan offices, attempting to mentor or be mentored on something is a great way to earn dirty looks from anyone who's unfortunate enough to be sitting nearby. If you do it often, people will start griping about you behind your back.

Mini meeting rooms can work, when you can find them, for about a year. After that, the company will respond to complaints that people will hang out in them for hours on end (which I could swear was the point, but I digress) by requiring them to be reserved ahead of time in Outlook. Which puts the brakes on using them for genuine collaboration, because reserving meeting rooms in Outlook is a minor hassle, especially if you're a Linux or Mac user, and it's ultimately easier and less demoralizing to just not talk to each other than it is to play a game of, "Mother may I," whenever you want to have an impromptu discussion.
>Constant surveillance is another part of the real reason with collaboration used as the public rationale

when i worked on an open plan office, that was huge. it seems like my boss' favorite hobby was checking everyone's screen to see what they were doing.

once, i was watching a yt video on a monitor while i worked on the other. normal right? nope. my boss came to my "desk" and said i had to shut it down because it was bothering people (it wasn't anything offensive. it was literally a science podcast).
I'd be surprised if this is just real estate. HR and other things get rolled into overhead cost numbers.
At some level I agree with your sentiment about shibboleth-style filtering. Not having seen these specific "tests" though, I can charitably imagine these being relevant to fault-tolerance/managed intricacy. Things like, "This code failed. How did it get to that state?" or "X can be interrupted at any time. Implement Y such that it atomically…" are examples of coding challenges that _are_ relevant to being fluent in embedded software development. I really doubt they're asking "implement quicksort"-type questions.
I am a millennial (born in '88) and I would LOVE to have a cubicle. My first job was at Cisco in San Jose, California which had cubicles. I was fortunate enough to be introduced to the corporate environment with cubicles.

I loved my cubicle. Like you said: just enough privacy to get things done. People would come by only if absolutely necessary otherwise they would mind their own business.

Having cubicles also prevented useless chatter.

Then I left that company and my productivity and mental peace has never been the same. Not even near.
Human interaction is more than just blabbering at the water cooler. It could be as little as just seeing people walking in and out, hearing them rinse out their coffee cup, overhearing nuggets about which part of the project is behind or overhearing technical discussions that might give me ideas to try. All these things are challenging to come by when you’re shut in a quiet office. To some people this stuff doesn’t matter and/or is even detrimental to concentration. I get that. To others it’s as vital as oxygen. I don’t think one preference is any more or less valid than the other.
> In reality, the money is coming from a corporation, who presumably has already costed the risk and is willing to accept it.

Then his salary, and the salary of all the employees have been lowered to provide the benefit. That means employees without kids pay for the parents.

> Moreover money is not zero-sum.

A handout is definitely zero-sum. But even if it isn't, the entire benefit of that handout is captured by the receiver, not by the giver. So its an even worse reason for an employer to give parental leave.
your reaction to the guy crossing the street is hilarious.
>Amazon S3 and DynamoDB come to mind are good examples. They are model-checked in TLA+ though the applications themselves are not written in TLA+.

Honest question (I obviously don't have a ton of experience in this area), what does "model-checked in TLA+ though the applications themselves are not written in TLA+" mean (in terms of the guarantees you're getting)? If you're not verifying the actual code, then how do you prevent bugs creeping during whatever happens between verification and actually writing the application code?

The HACL* project looks interesting. I would definitely accept that as an affirmative answer to my original question.
Because I called the insurance and they told me to go to the emergency room.
From what I’ve heard (UK study reported about a decade ago in local news), drivers and cyclists jump red lights at about the same rate. However, because cyclists cycle at cycling speed and drivers drive at driving speed, any given cyclists sees fewer cyclists and more drivers than a driver, and vice versa, so both groups see evidence of more red light jumping by the other group than by their own group.
I work in an open office environment. I never thought I’d say this, but it works excellently; there’s always energy in the air, collaboration is easy, and it’s a great space to hold company all-hands meetings. I’d say there are 4 keys to making this work:

1) The founders have a great sense of aesthetic and our office is a beautiful space as a result (also stays very clean), meaning it stays less stressful and promotes a positive mood. This may not be strictly necessary but it sure helps it not feel like the hellscape that “open office” evokes.

2) There are plenty of closed-room office spaces available if you need focus time

3) Both of our open-office sections are in rooms much bigger than the rows of desks, so despite having a large number of people in one room, it never feels crowded

4) There is Sonos in both open-office areas and people are pretty good about not hogging it or playing obnoxious/too-loud music

I’ve also worked in open offices that were nightmarish, but saw these same factors (minus the aesthetic portion) make for an effective office environment elsewhere as well. Music, breakout offices, and non-desk space seem to be the musts (but do decorate nicely because it matters more than I ever would have thought before).

EDIT: I should add that it’s usually pretty quiet, and the music very low. I don’t consider it a distraction, but I also like my coworkers’ music so this may not work for everyone. Also, headphones are universally respected as a “do not disturb” signal.
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That's fair, but I'm sort of afraid / amazed by autopilot. I have been through FAA flight school and you learn to develop an instrument panel "scan" in instrument rated flight. I find myself having developed a "scan" that includes looking side to side and behind me. With AP enabled I'm able to take in more of the current situation around me, but in this case, I was not able to see the car that drove into the middle of the highway from offroad at night. AP did a better job than a human did. End.
The education entrepreneur Adam Robinson did his own survey a few decades ago. He found that while children of two immigrants did better on standardized tests than children of two non-immigrant parents, the "best" combination came from having an immigrant father and a non-immigrant mother. ("Best" when focusing solely on standardized test results)
I get it and I totally appreciate my extrovert colleagues. I think the ability to have both is good. Sometimes I do like to work with others.

It's just that often open-plan offices are an all-or-nothing affair. It's a weird way to construct a space for people to work and collaborate given how different we all are.
I have always wondered about that myself. I guess I implicitly trust all the large orgs already using their products to do their due diligence, but if it is a targeted attack there is nothing much you could do.
Or, few rungs up the ladder, it's a convenient way to get in Sanders' way while claiming incompetence!
Yep, when ships explode they drop debris which can be picked up for energy. How much energy you get depends on how much energy the ship had when they exploded.
Thanks! And a very fair point. Fix'd!
What prevents a small peripheral company from being a vector for hardware attacks via a foreign state? Is there an impartial inspection process that checks devices? It seems like it would be extremely lucrative for a person to facilitate that operation if they don't value the integrity of their nation.
FWIW, I got a decent fountain pen at Daiso for $5.

(Shout out for Uni-Ball Deluxe!)
I do actually have a bit of Simulink generated code in my current project. I absolutely do not consider it to be formally anything. It's one of the highest risk areas of the project IMO because it is very complex and a very black box.
> Edit: Additionally, there are laws in place in the US that state in emergent situations, no hospital (public or private) can deny care - regardless if you can pay or not. So the article title might be a bit sensationalized.

This is true, but many life-saving treatments (such as chemo or radiation treatment for cancer) are not "emergency" treatments, despite being necessary and somewhat urgent.
Create content relevant to what your startup does. Answer relevant questions that real people search for. You can do some keyword research and use tools such as Autocomplete and People Also Ask to get some questions to start with.

Answer these questions the best you can. In-depth, clear, easy to understand. Make it informative, make it educational, make it look nice. The focus is on providing the best value possible to the person who is asking the question.

Review the posts that currently rank on the first page of Google for these searches. What topics do they talk about? What issues do they solve? And then try to create something that's better, more practical, easier to understand, presented in a better way... than what you've found on the first page.

It will take some time and effort of regularly posting quality articles before you start seeing the results but this is a more trusted and more self-sustainable way of driving traffic and leads to your startup.
I have a bicycle and e-scooter, so I can share how it "feels" (I strictly follow rules and never cross the road on a red light):

* Scooter is more safe than a bicycle (for a rider). In case of collision it's trivial to step off from the scooter - moving your body from the bicycle takes much more time.

* Bicycle is more maneuverable - bigger front wheel gives much more control.

* You need less of your attention to drive a scooter, so you have more "CPU time" to monitor the road situation.

* Making stops is significantly easier on scooter, so you have less temptation to quickly cross the road in a second before the red light.

* Speed should be limited on scooters and it should be "sealed" somehow to prevent "jailbreaking" - after a few days you'll stop "feeling" max speed on e-scooter and you'll want it to go faster, even if you are already faster than any bicycle. It's really dangerous for pedestrians.

* By the previous reason, e-scooters should be restricted to bike lanes only.

* You have higher chances to sweat when walking, than when riding e-scooter. For some travelers it's important :)

Overall, e-scooter is a great tool to deliver you from A to B, but bicycle gives much more satisfaction from the process of riding itself.
But it's not over, because the Ancestry.com UI is the only place most of that information is usable and navigable. This necessitates an ongoing subscription for access.

In addition, there's almost no "records found, tree built, work complete." It's always pulling additional "leaves" as more records are digitized.
Try to scan the QR and you will understand. Hopefully.
Going from dd-wrt to openwrt should be as simple as a firmware flash from the web gui, and an nvram reset. Worst case, you can flash a "revert to stock" image from ddwrt to go back to factory, then flash openwrt as if the device was factory.

Openwrt also has a handy failsafe built into a lot of models. It boots a stripped down http server where you can upload recovery firmware.

Used to swear by dd-wrt, now I prefer openwrt.
> One challenge is that there are some things which should distract us:

> 1. Pull Requests which we should review to unblock our teammates.

For PRs, it's unlikely that the person making the PR needs you to review it right this second. It's ok if you finish what you are working on now while you are still in flow and after an hour or so, review the PR.

If your teammate has nothing to do during that time, that's a completely different problem.
Amazon built an org that handles high turnover, and I respect them for that. If you go into it with eyes open, you can build an org that has more junior dev. Not that Elon's the type to think of the consequences, but it can be done.
The competitor didn’t know what he was doing, pretty much. He hacked an MVP together with Rails in Heroku, then when people flooded in, he couldn’t scale up and the site kept crashing. By the end of day two, there were articles and publicity about my friend’s site, and then it became a flywheel. He eventually made it work, of course, but the botched launch gave my friend a HUGE advantage (and paying users). I bet he’s paying a ton of money and still trying to scale on Heroku (I made a considerable amount of money as a consultant fixing cases like that too)

Welcome to the web?
My job is 'focus time' 95% of the day. So I need to monopolize on of those office spaces. Hey! Just put a sign on the door - Joe's Office. And we're back to closed offices.

It all depends on the job.
Depends on where they live[1], there are several states that didn't expand Medicaid under the ACA. They'd also have to make under 100-138% of the federal poverty level, which is ~$12,490-17,236.20 for individuals and ~$16,910-23,335.80 for couples.

[1] https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/status-of-state-med...
When my Apple Watch battery broke I bought, with the little money I received from selling it for spare parts, a cheap CASIO G-Shock.

This low-tech CASIO does all I needed from my smart watch: shows time and date and gives me a timer for cooking.

I never have to charge it or take it off and I can even shower with it.

Added advantage is that it doesn't constantly radiate on the WiFi / Bluetooth spectrum.
Password? I've never met someone else irl who sets a password on their phone. Best I've ever seen is a PIN.
She mentions that the product helps screen for the patient's "propensity to pay". From that I gather that if the patient has a low propensity to pay, then they get denied by the hospital.

This is from the product's lit:

"Predict propensity to pay using our proprietary Healthcare Financial Risk Score, which factors in historical healthcare payment outcomes and the patient’s credit history"

She mentions that the product also lets them pull "FPL", which in this case I imagine means "Federal Poverty Level", in addition to household size. Cincinnati Childrens has some info that might put that info into context: https://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/patients/resources/finan...
Speeding is dangerous but running a red light is straight up reckless.
I think it can safely be assumed that there are problems with any large enterprise application architecture.
Software layering makes this much harder than it should be, but it's a good concept.

One potential pitfall is that an unfortunate number of networks still have poor path MTU detection, so padding that makes the packets larger than any previously sent packet in the stream may result in a packet too large to transit the network. Then you're at the mercy of ICMP delivery or path MTU blackhole detection, which tends to be slow and isn't enabled on Android (!).
That guy is clearly in the wrong and I'm surprised how intense your reaction was. There's got to be something else in that.
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From the acne Wikipedia page:

"There is good evidence to support the idea that acne and associated scarring negatively affect a person's psychological state, worsen mood, lower self-esteem, and are associated with a higher risk of anxiety disorders, depression, and suicidal thoughts."[1]

While Acne probably won't kill you, it certainly won't make you happier and could contribute to suicide if left untreated. We are lucky that acne meds are cheap, but there is nothing stopping those companies from shooting up their prices tomorrow.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acne#Prognosis
I'm somewhat sure that the low contrast predates advertisement on maps by several years. I also doubt Google would willingly compromise Maps's usability for the sake of advertising, especially right from the start where there is enough low-hanging fruit and revenue is bound to be negligible. That would be like plastering ads over the google.com homepage, something they continue to resist two decades in.

My money is on either a wish to make (all kinds of) labels stand out, or just aesthetic preferences. FWIW I always found OSM to have too much contrast (and too much details), and the emergence of all these services rebranding OSM in different styles would seem to be evidence for other people also considering OSM's default style to leave room for improvement.
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The Ada language allows for a subset of the language called SPARK (not to be confused with the Java framework).

In Ada you can do Design-by-contract but in the SPARK subset you can actually formally prove the implementation's correctness.

SPARK is used to my knowledge in rail signalling system, air traffic control systems, Class III medical devices, and now also NVDIA plans to use it for sections of their ADAS platform.

I think the cost aspect is overblown. The biggest issue is that anything related to Ada is not really that well known and often what is known is based on stereotypes from the 80's. Also for most people they would not see it as career growth move to switch to an Ada based technology stack.
Just because they are not politicians does not mean they do not get changed out. In my experience in a particular US state the top three layers (director and two levels of reports) pretty much all get changed out with the administration. Positions below that are (mostly) union positions and therefore protected by the union.
This new flavor of the yearly flu is not much different from other rather harmless flu's of this kind. There's just no flushot for it.

But it's not as dramatic or deadly as the Spanish flu, which killed the healthy ones, because of the overreacting immune system. The death rate is minor, like with other flu's, the expansion rate is normal, should be not much different to SARS or similar flu's.
Like father, not like son https://archive.vn/YIjwk
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So not only are they trying to fix a fundamental hardware issue with a software patch, their inability to do software properly extends beyond just their MCAS system? This is a good reminder that air travel's extraordinary safety record isn't just a given, it's something that takes real work to achieve and when the people responsible for putting in that work (Boeing, regulators) begin taking safety for granted, that's when people die.
Everybody around the world does it. In fact, the CIA has been doing it since its inception!
I've always wanted to interview someone by giving them some code, and saying "please add such-and-such a feature."

I've had interviews before where people have given me code on paper and asked me to critique it; also gave me a program where they'd introduced a bug, and asked me to find the bug.

It's a shame these things haven't caught on. Developing green field code is only a tiny fraction of what we do.
Totally agree.

IT and other staff needs peace and quiet to concentrate to be productive.
People interact less in open plan offices and tend to put on head phones to silence the noise. Since you produce less in open plan offices yes they are not smart.

Also there is link to noise pulltion and overall health. Open Office spaces will be more noisy than private offices.
https://www.pac-intl.com/pdf/NoisePollutionTakesTollonHealth...

Plus you are more likely to get sick in an open office, for example if you neighbor sneezes.
"Compared to cellular offices, occupants in 2-person offices had 50%
more days of sickness absence [rate ratio (RR) 1.50, 95% confidence interval (95% CI) 1.13–1.98], occupants
in 3–6-person offices had 36% more days of sickness absence (RR 1.36, 95% CI 1.08–1.73), and occupants in
open-plan offices (>6 persons) had 62% more days of sickness absence (RR 1.62, 95% CI 1.30–2.02)."

Link to study
https://www.sjweh.fi/show_abstract.php?abstract_id=3167

https://www.rivier.edu/academics/blog-posts/the-price-of-col...
Thanks for linking to this, it was a good read :)

The author seems like a cool (IMO) guy who is a bit insecure about whether he’s supposed to be seeking people’s approval or what. I couldn’t handle the status-seeking and other social dynamics of academia, so I became an entrepreneur.
My wife was denied short term disability for a foot operation due to a completely unrelated medical issue. It took 6 months to reverse the idiotic decision, which of exactly what they wanted. Infuriating.
Portland's Bureau of Transit did a 120-day study of scooters here which has some interest bits of information. The PDF is here: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/transportation/article/709719

Findings include that injuries did rise, but most didn't warrant a hospital visit. There were no deaths during the study period.

Another interesting finding is that scooters strongly prefer riding on cycling infrastructure, especially neighborhood greenways and protected bike lanes, and are unlikely to ride on the sidewalk when those are present. As the degree of protection increases, however, more people ride on the sidewalk.
I believe there can still be examples where an opposite (as in one with positive impact) case can be made. Regardless, you have a point, thus I stress, exceptions are exceptions.
seL4 comes to mind. Also IronFleet[1], which is small but end-to-end verified in Dafny. People tend to verify the cores of complex systems, not the entire thing. See here[2] for more on that.

I suspect there'd be a lot of stuff using either SPARK or Event-B, but Tokeneer[3] is the only thing I found with five minutes of Googling.

[1]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/ironfle...

[2]: https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/pfonseca//papers/eurosys2017...

[3]: https://www.adacore.com/tokeneer
> allow total removal of phone app

Apple still produces the iPod touch, and it runs iOS 13!
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Absolutely untrue as the only markets we see this in are ones which are heavily regulated. And we're not talking safety regulations, but regulations to shape the market, which is likely impossible to keep from being corrupt (easy to believe if you've ever met an actual human being). I'd bet 50% of states have explicit laws limiting the number of hospitals in areas to protect county/state hospitals from competition, leaving many urban areas without high quality care, and yet somehow, through some chain of conspiracy theories, capitalism is to blame.
There was also a survey (not filtered by party affiliation) asking if people would support a single-payer program with an elimination of private insurance. A majority said "Yes."
I wonder how much of this comes from insulation from cultural trends that seem to try to push away every cultural norm in favor of something else. I’d imagine immigrant families that haven’t fully assimilated into all that are less influenced.
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