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Of course you are correct; “Linux” is a big landscape, and descriptions of instances run the gamut (eg: OpenWRT vs Ubuntu). When I was writing above I had (eg) Red Hat or Ubuntu in mind.
The practices you discuss are incidental, the real criticism the article makes is that there must be focus on measuring and delivering customer value; that h focus must be on impact rather than a train of features.
These people must have been not just sniffing but getting high off their own farts.
We can detect microwaves, infrared rays, light rays, ultraviolet rays, X-rays, and gamma rays. We might not be able to transmit and receive FM radio in those frequencies, but we are able to detect the presence, polarization, and direction of such radiation.
But we already have existing data that says that people who are given free money don't just become unemployed, and the only people who do take the free money to be unemployed are parents and teenagers who are trying to parent and study respectively. I think personally that sounds amazing. If someone wants to watch Judge Judy all day, every day, for months chances are they have a mental illness and need to be treated the same way as someone whose back is thrown out needs to be treated.

People will take jobs for the similar reasons we take jobs now- we want money, and take higher paying jobs to afford nicer things. In a world where bases are covered, luxuries will definitely be a better carrot than the stick of homelessness.
Ah yes, the famously identified "career women" and "divorcee" genes with well-known genetic pathways.
"SoftBank Vision Fund has had 12 exits. SoftBank Vision Fund's most notable exits include NVIDIA, Uber, and Flipkart."

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/softbank-vision-fund
> every time I hire someone I have to put aside 125% of their salary aside

You can't answer if that is unreasonable unless you compare to other countries. As an example, in the US you would have to also pay for health insurance. And if the employee were to get sick they might still not see a doctor immediately because of the premiums, leading to further time off.
That is a load a bs. If anything, it has been enabling for me. Any business that wouldn't want to hire me based on the incredible scalability experience I gained from working on a super high traffic/revenue project, isn't a company I would want to work for anyway. Nothing I did was black hat.
> The only way we would find something is if they pointed a VERY powerful noise source directly at us, or us at them.

Do you mean we could detect ordinary technological EM radiation if we pointed a sufficiently high-gain antenna at the transmitting planet ?

Otherwise if SETI assumes someone is sending an interstellar signal on purpose, I would question its value, because there's no strong reason to think anyone is doing that. I realize we did it once, but an argument can be made (and has been) that it was a fairly stupid thing to do.
That deal valued Zume at $2.25b, which is about 1/5 of the market cap of market leader Dominos.

So SoftBank was betting on a >20% chance that Zume would succeed to that degree.

This is quite different from traditional VC, which expects much lower probabilities of success in each investment.
Happy to do as asked, though I am a different Dave Thomas.

Per my understanding, it's anything you might say about your system, especially as it relates to your domain.

"There is a button here", "this is what we store about users", "broken widgets are red", "this is how we calculate interest", ...
This was from 2016, so what was the outcome?
I love this reply because it showcases how people hear so selectively and ignore facts. I guess relying on fiction is much easier.

Anyhow, I agree. Seems like the laws are actually working as intended as I have started to outsource to Asia. Your laws did wonders to protect the workers which they were "intended to help". Man this is way to fucking hilarious and sad at the same time.
FYI: Uber is back to around $40 after a good earnings call. Softbank purchased most of their shares around $33 (though I think they also purchase some around $48), so they are mostly profitable on their Uber investment.

Not out of the question for Uber to reach $50+ by end of year.
> Reworked SATA subsystem, now supporting multiple commands in transit (NCQ),

Well, that's more than a decade overdue. It looks like they added a NVMe driver in 8.0 that's not shockingly primitive, so I wonder why SATA was lagging so far behind.
It's because Uber can't guarantee supply of rides.
That's basically what they are doing. The title is sort of misleading. The time off is not paid.
I didn't know that about Go, that's pretty cool! I assumed it was like Rust, where the compiler/toolchain makes builds on arbitrary specific platforms really easy to do, but where you still have to actually do those very narrow builds.
Since it seems we are on the verge of having an off-planet colony, I'd like to launch a couple questions:

1- What are the colonists' fundamental rights and who protects them?

2- Under what jurisdiction will they be?

3- Who owns the air?

4- If someone can't pay for their air or food, what happens?
Well, officially the USSR had very little wealth inequality. But... what fraction of the population got to shop at the special stores? (You might consider them the "rich", because they could buy more things, and for less money.) I'm pretty sure they weren't more than 5% of the population, and maybe significantly less, but I don't recall specifically.

And that's if communism was functioning "normally". Didn't Romania turn into a kleptocracy? What was the level of wealth inequality there?
Deploying front-end websites to S3 with CloudFront
It's one of those things you can't really appreciate until you've tried it. Imperative programming languages are to assembly languages, as array programming is to imperative programming: it's a higher level of abstraction. The difference between the array and imperative paradigms may not be quite as pronounced as the difference between C and assembly, but it's still significant nonetheless.

There's no need for control structures like loops or if statements in array programming.
Curious that they use LSN tracking vs making the replication synchronous. I would be curious to see the performance numbers and the reasoning behind the choice.
https://petapixel.com/2016/11/22/1-billion-getty-images-laws...
No one mentioned Borges, I'll do it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevole...

"The list divides all animals into 14 categories: those belonging to the Emperor, embalmed ones, [...] those that from afar look like flies."

He snuck in "those included in this classification" at #8, too.
Nah, the second one is also pretty popular.

https://www.shellcheck.net
Please give a concrete example of this pain that you have actually experienced. I understand that ASI (automatic semi-colon insertion) is in theory ambiguous because you are relying on the compiler, or in some cases many different compilers, to execute the statement correctly. In practice, for over a decade, I have never run into such an issue. I suspect it's due to engineers trying to get too cute with their implementations.
> Have you tried using jemalloc? It can help a lot for situations like this.

Huh, I thought Rust already used jemalloc by default. I looked it up and it looks like it was removed relatively recently. When I was doing this experiment, I was using a version of Rust that included jemalloc by default so that 10% number already uses jemalloc. I remember this because I also thought of trying to speed up the allocator.

Like I said above, I profiled both Go and Rust and the 10% slowdown with Rust appeared to be running destructors for the AST. I think the appropriate solution to this would be some form of arena allocator instead of changing the system allocator. But that gets even more complicated with lifetimes and stuff.

> Can you work around this by using separate functions for the branches?

Yeah, I could have tried restructuring my code to try to avoid compiler issues. But this would have been even more time spent working around issues with Rust. Go was better than Rust by pretty much every metric that mattered for me, so I went with Go instead.

It's too bad because I was initially super excited about the promise of Rust. Being able to avoid the overhead of GC while keeping memory safety and performance is really appealing. But Rust turned out to be not a productive enough language for me.
I sorta wonder what will happen to ads in Microsoft's own games (in particular Solitaire). I kinda hope they will be removed, but I doubt that would actually happen.
Why would they assume that?
I know, but still someone needs to cover their position in the meantime and potentially provide other benefits.
This last point on motivation is spot on! If you're gonna schedule, make sure you schedule in some time for yourself. We all need time to recharge.
They purchased most of their Uber stake at $33. It's at $40 now, so they've made money on Uber despite what the media wants you to believe.
It's not just the up-front config change, it's the constellation of loaders and such around it. I assume this new project doesn't have a TypeScript loader, or an Elm loader, or a Polymer-specific loader.

https://webpack.js.org/loaders/
> the effect is that each candidate spends tons of money on it, fighting each other

I've been following Brexit since 2016 and my impression from the materials/research available is that microtargeting via social networks is in fact cheaper than the "analog" campaigning. Let alone money spent on political ads are easier to dodge and thus not even report as campaign spending. But in any case microtargeting being cheaper is the reason it's being increasingly used in politics.

Now taking the price into account, I'm not so sure energy consumption is greater for digital campaigns compared to the "analog" ones: consider rallies, talks other events that have a similar impact to microtargeting.

That is not to say digital campaigning is better in any sense of the word, it is scary because it can be far more manipulative (take Brexit as an example), just that the carbon footprint argument is not very convincing to me in this case.
You seem to be confusing my complaining about a behavior (instance operators being stupid) and my being entitled to force them to behave in a non-stupid way. This is a common misunderstanding.

You're preaching to the choir about "their server, their rules". I just think that censorship is dumb, and server admins that do this are dumb. They're entirely within their rights to be dumb on their own hardware.

I do run my own instance. And thousands of people, some of whom I wish to read, have been denied the possibility of me following them (despite their toots still available on the public internet for anyone, myself included, to view) because one such admin has been this type of dumb.
Describing the mess in a not-messy way is the whole point of exceptions. If you have a mess in your code either clean it up or document it, don't hide it.

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Sometimes the problem you're solving really does require a gnarly flow-chart. If that's the case, you're almost certainly better off writing (and documenting!) a state machine instead.

If your control-flow graph is only a little gnarly then representing it with exception syntax is fine IMO (I write Python code too, with exceptions.)

The problem comes when you accidentally create a hidden gnarly graph (as the result of bad design up front, or "drift" over time as a piece of code gets reworked, maybe by multiple people who may not all be privy to the whole history of the design and code, or both) and then forget to do something crucial along some flow of control and you have a hard-to-debug bug.
I don't think they wrote they were "surprised" or that they didn't handle these laws or the situations caused by them. The author just wrote that those laws are very difficult for business and are not as "entrepreneur-friendly" as advertised by these "Sweden does _____" articles.
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There is also a perverse incentive for employees to point this out. Why would a product manager highlight that the status quo is flawed? Why would an engineer shake stuff up and optimize tired old code instead of just cranking out a shiny new features?

Raising these issues would ruffle a lot of feathers. I would not do that just to make my own life more difficult and possibly point out that my own position is redundant.
It could exist in a world where people start with systemic encouragement to not hire minorities, and so the financial incentive to do so only manages to shift their practices enough to end the existing discriminatory habits.
I think that the people not being impressed by cut and sort are approaching this from the Linux end of things, where those tools are nothing special at all. I guess we kind of expected that the data science wizards would be using fancier tools.
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I think EULA needs to be banned. It should be simple and uniform across all products so people can understand.
I've never been much of a TV person, since growing up doing mostly other things, and haven't wanted to agree to the ToS of any of the paid services.

But sometimes it is helpful to do something that doesn't require much thought, for a little while, after I'm tired of reading or whatever. Internet radio is one (the radiodroid app is really cool, on f-droid.org, and newsblur).

But back on topic, I was glad to discover https://wwitv.com/portal.htm (no affiliations) w/ internet TV from around the world: mostly news stations, but a few seem to have more than that, like couple of them in Spain. (Occasionally have to switch channels if there is content I particularly don't want, but that is common.)

(Edit: fwiw, I put other ideas on fun/relaxing, here: http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854618463.html )
I typically only see 2 or 3 people manning a Little Caesar's. I don't know how much cheaper a robot could make an operation like that.

Here's an actual work schedule: http://i.imgur.com/ukj47cs.jpg
They're not feelings. Anger isn't on the list either but "facial expression for anger" is.
> Adding capacity to the sky is easy because it's empty

Adding capacity to airports, however, is much harder. Heathrow is at 98% capacity, for example, and it's difficult to add a new airport, or even new runway, for London. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_Heathrow_Airport , which discusses the major earthworks, etc. involved.

> Roads are easier to maintain and pay for themselves without subsidies just via fuel tax.

In the US fuel taxes only cover about 25% of "State/Local Road Spending", says https://taxfoundation.org/statelocal-road-spending-covered-u... .

> Finally of the few people needed to maintain and run the roads, many are private sector and un-unionized e.g. gas station employees

That's in the US, right? Fuel-tanker drivers in Portugal went on strike last year - https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-portugal-strike-fuel/portu... .

Fuel-tanker drivers in France went on strike 3 years ago - https://www.thelocal.fr/20170531/french-petrol-stations-begi... .

> It's got nothing to do with greenness which is at any rate a very ambiguous case to make when you consider all the factors. Trains can be less green than planes in many ordinary situations.

Care to elaborate?

For many ordinary situations, train CO2 production is 1/2 or even less than planes, on a per-passenger basis. Quoting https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49349566 "Train virtually always comes out better than plane, often by a lot. A journey from London to Madrid would emit 43kg (95lb) of CO2 per passenger by train, but 118kg by plane (or 265kg if the non-CO2 emissions are included), according to EcoPassenger."

Of course, London-Madrid by train is about 24 hours, or 2.5 hours by flight.

And of course, London-NYC isn't a train trip away, and there are unusual situations like Bergen, Norway—Aberdeen, United Kingdom where there are direct flights while Google Maps just laughs at me for asking for a train routing.

But I'm curious about the ordinary cases where flights are more green than train - that is, where both are reasonable options to consider.
What happens when these algorithms are inevitably shown to be conditioned on priors like social class or race?
A first year student of some community college in the US is twice as good as the average developer here.

You think I am talking shit? well... I studied in the US and worked as a program director for a technical University based in Stockholm whose sole job was to output developers into the market in line with what all the hundreds of CTOs that I interviewed required.

Trust me when I say this, that article you linked to is pure PR bullshit. You can find the same article written about Paris, London, Berlin, etc. It´s all PR bullshit that people spin in order to attract foreign capital.

> Also, tech salaries are quite high -- as a consultant, you make more than in London at least.

at some point you ought to realize that what you´re saying is bullshit, and this sentence should have tipped you off to the fact that you´re talking out of your ass.
I don't know, everyone. All the best software is so great because whatever you want to do, you can find in 1 minute with a Google search. I hate googling and finding "I don't think this is possible. I know you can do this in (a feature factory competitor of what you Googled) but I don't think (what you googled) has this feature."

I've seen comments like that thousands of times. Haven't you?
>needs to be prioritized by management

If the attitude of these engineers is "we don't emphasize security unless management tells us to" maybe they don't deserve to be hired elsewhere?

Management are not omniscient; they depend on their staff.
ok so how exactly do you pitch to softbank?
Yeah doesn't seem hard to add columns for their address, where their kids go to school and their current location.
I do believe overgard was just making a point and not expecting a job offer from you. I find these "I'd never hire you" comments so obnoxious... At least you could tell us where you work and your name so we could ask for another interviewer if we ever apply there :-)
There's a difference between tolerance and acceptance. People are very nice and tolerant of foreigners, but they will always be the "other" in society.

This is btw the case for immigrants in most places in the world, especially Asia. But because Sweden especially gets such a high reputation for being welcoming, I feel the need to contextualize.
Yes this was a surprise for me too. The benchmark I used for esbuild deliberately tests full build time without a cache, since that is an important metric to me. I assume Parcel is talking about incremental build times when the cache has already been populated. In that case I'm sure Parcel is not as slow.
About cached values you say: "Synchronizing" them is always as simple as a single, controlled operation.

Others have stated that: "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things"
Most of those rules are decent, but they all have exceptions. You almost need a final rule, to think about the reasons the other rules exist, and feel free to break a rule if appropriate for your own specific situation.
This is good news, but I’m surprised it doesn’t seem to be in any way related to Stadia, which is more aligned with ChromeOS’ philosophy and, as mentioned in the article, would be compatible with the poor specs that Chromebooks are specifically designed with.
How did SoftBank manage to lose money by investing in Uber?
You want all the benefits of a free market but all protections in the labor pool. It is not H1B workers fault that your students don't take STEM up. Stop putting everything on immigrants.
Have you worked in ETL? With AI/machine learning work, it's probably the most important non-AI aspect of a workflow. Getting data to an expected format is not always an easy task, and it requires knowing a lot of different things to get it right.
this is one of those moments where i really, really feel like we are all characters living in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash
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1600 take home a month

tube travel card is 150

rent for a room in a shared house in zone 2 might be 600-800

food 300-400, no eating out

Basically spending habits include not spending whenever possible and staying at home a lot.
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Didn't SoftBank buy high and sell low for nvidia, though? (and maybe uber, too?)
Human-centered capitalism is perfectly possible with some of the alternative forms of stock ownership and company governance. You can start and build a company that's employee-governed through elections, optionally also employee-owned in the economic sense, though the latter is optional. There are many examples of various types of ownership among some famous companies too, from Ikea to Bosch and Zeiss. What they have in common is, there are no absentee owners and therefore no pressure of profit maximization at all costs on the company.
This is still very early stage (hoping to be able to launch in December this year) and many features are missing (such as threaded comments).

The Frontpage is limited to 20 things and auto-scrolling (endless scrolling) is not used, hoping to allow users to "get their fix" and not get lost in the content rabbit hole.

Signups require a valid SMS-capable phone number and some 40 countries are supported at this stage. Each user signup comes at a cost and I hope to achieve quality engagement and content rather than quantity.

By requiring a phone number (twitter and others seem to have this too), I hope to deter users with bad intentions. I hope to build a community where diversity is embraced and celebrated and users are kind and respectful of other viewpoints and ideas.

It would mean a lot if you could try it out and provide constructive feedback/thoughts/ideas.

Tech stack: ASP.NET MVC+SQL and several other amazing libs/things credited at https://20-things.com/about.

Thank you.
I think part of the problem is how uncritically tech journalism covers these companies pre-scandal.

Even call it a "robot" pizza company is strange...I can't imagine that the inside of any factory for frozen pizzas would look that different than what this company was offering.
6 hours days would be great then I can work two jobs.
Wait I'm confused, is this country requiring people take time off to become entrepreneurs?
These are all expected and desirable outcomes. Sometimes technical debt is not worth paying off until your hand is forced, like in these examples.

A large part of management is making the implicit explicit, and communicating the outcome of these efforts.

None of these examples have anything to do with refactoring code, specifically, and the challenges faced within that work.
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/12597
Yeah, that's not how infosec works. You've almost certainly written code that has exposed user information (unless you've written no user-facing code).

Are you, as an engineer, going to organize a pentest for the software? Even if you encourage management to do so, it's still up to management to actually book the deal.