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Had to recruit for COBOL engineers 8 years ago. Almost impossible finding someone with less than 10 years of experience. Most were 15-20+ years of experience and about to retire. Many with COBOL experience moved to cloud tech that would never move back to COBOL that would cause them to be outdated. New people in the field seemingly only got trained because they were willing to learn it at a bank.

It's a struggle to hire these people cause there are so few people and many companies only want to hire local talent (within 20-50 miles, and don't want to do VISAs).

There's money to be made on supporting tech this old, likely more on the consulting side than becoming an internal employee.
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I don’t really understand the issue with doing this. Context switches sometimes take a while to get back to what you were working on, I’d rather not rely on local git stash state to get back to it. And if I do end up working on something else for a while then someone else might pick it up, they might as well have access to my WIP. Also the cost of a CI run is really low, there’s no practical downside to pushing it and letting the tests run on it so I have some more context about its current status when I or someone else picks it back up.
Eh, not really a problem. Your CD-R issue is pretty much the same as you not having a cylinder phonograph player - a device that is already 100 years old. Sure, if you do not have such a player you cannot play the cylinder, but the audio stored in those players isn't lost, players exist for those who want to listen to the cylinders and given enough money, new ones can be made.

Similarly, you may not have a CD-R or DVD-R reader, but it takes about 5 euros to buy one and access your CD. In 100 years it might cost more, but i'm willing to bet that CD-R and DVD-R readers will still be available in much greater numbers than cylinder phonograph players are. Making new ones, for really important data, will certainly be more expensive than making a new cylinder player but it wont be impossible - if the data is important enough and for some reason all the millions of CD-R players in existence nowadays has vanished, a new one will be made.

And analog formats aren't that great either - most of them tend to wear over time, so they have their own drawbacks.
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I know that, I did not really ask for advice, more for your experience. And since you do not have experience with oxygen, I was merely suggesting it, as I heard how it helps people with breathing problems and I do not see the need to have the masks 100% sterile if it is your personal mask. But I am also not a doctor ..
> Modern transistors, which function as a computer’s brain cells

Who's the target audience for this analogy? If you understand what a brain cell is then you probably know what a transistor is too. I would bet that more people know what a transistor is than what a brain cell is.
> Once covid19 goes away (if ever), and a new virus appears, NO ONE will have that app turned on, and by then, the new virus will have spread just like covid19.

Devil's advocate: so why not just keep the app running forever in the background?

If there's no virus to report - that's fine.

But the moment a new outbreak starts, the data is already there, you just have to report that you're sick.
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Thanks for the info. Can you give more info on your dev setup? Do you use docker for developement/production?
A sprite chip literally is a GPU [Graphics Processing Unit], just for 2d graphics (sprites,tiles,color palettes,etc) rather than 3d (vertex,triangles,fragment shading,etc).
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Someone posted a link to illinois.edu's CS241 and I read it like there is no tomorrow: a very well thought out C course, truly free no reg no nothing (available as a "all in one book" too). Hard as I try I can't find something equally good for C++. Any suggestions?
I would bet the art mode pictures are analyzed somehow to optimize the settings, or the settings are hand-tuned for each picture.

Not applying art mode to arbitrary user pictures removes the risk of them making art mode look bad, when art mode is pretty much the main reason to buy this TV over another.
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> just decide your own roadmap and stick with it?

While this may sound like it's easier to manage it usually ends up with a product that does not solve the problem of the customer.

As a product manager solving problems of your user or customer must be the first priority. The only way to do this is getting closer to the customer.

I find teams shielded from customers via business teams use the best part of their product management and engineering skills (microservices included) to manage their business team and not the customers.

There is a constant grooming of the backlog with features and pressure to keep the engineers managed and busy.

Start measurning the value of each feature to your customers. Have short customer feedback cycles for planned features. Your backlog should reflect solutions that make sense to the customer.

The book "Escaping the build trap" talks about this. I highly recommend the book.

Good books on the subject talks against roadmaps and shifting to a value and goal based approach.
Have you seen these giant wasps in your garden attacking and then releasing the bee? I’ve been assuming mine are a kind of solitary parasitic wasp. I think I’ve actually seen them stabbing the bees with their tails before releasing them. But they definitely look like those hornets you linked to! Just the activity seems wrong.
GEM was a very famous j-pop group, but they stopped to act 2 years ago.
> it has been a thing since Self I think? Or maybe that was just the prototypal inheritance

Just the inheritance.
Probably a european hornet? They are the biggest I know of here, and are yellow and black.

They are harmless to humans and protected.
The whole article is like this (facepalm)
You don't need to know the details of a brain cell to get the analogy. If I say "transistor" to my mom, she wouldn't be able to tell me what it is. If I say "It's like the brain cells for the computer", she would probably understand that "Ah, so a computer has many transistors that helps it think", which seems good enough for an article with a broad audience.

> I would bet that more people know what a transistor is than what a brain cell is

I'm happy to take you up on that bet, but it depends on what bubble you ask. In San Francisco/Silicon Valley, that's probably true, but outside any high-tech bubbles, more people know that we have brain cells in our heads, than we have transistors in our computers, I'm fairly sure.
My personal experience is that you do need to diligently sterilize things like masks that only you use. I spent years boiling medical equipment daily.

I had a nebulizer for a time to administer inhaled treatments. It had to be carefully sterilized.

Failure to adequately sterilize your personal medical equipment is sometimes a source of very nasty antibiotic resistant infections.

Your own germs or not, once they leave your body and grow on a surface and come back in contact with you, you had better take it seriously as a threat to your health.
They just test a lot of citizens. So the rate of positive tested people is low. Compared to other countries where they only test highly probable positive cases.
https://www.kernelmode.info/forum/viewtopic6f46.html?f=11&t=...

https://swapcontext.blogspot.com/2019/12/is-reactos-great-ag...
I've been told I have two of them
The data is closer to 50-50 there although my understanding is that women overwhelmingly look after the sick men and are disproportionately exposed so those numbers aren’t directly comparable.
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I have a feeling that many programmers and engineers are blind to latency. Not in a sense that they are bad programmers/engineers, but in a sense that they simply cannot feel the difference, so they make stuff that introduce latency they themselves cannot perceive.

So you get stuff like Wayland that introduces latency issues and when you try to explain the issue you feel like trying to describe the difference between magenta and fuchsia to a blind person.
As a healthcare worker who also has an interest in programming - why does this comment not surprise me in HN? If a worldwide pandemic doesn't make you reflect on problems in our societal structure - that our key workers are the most poorly paid, but part of a necessary backbone of any country, and that the most over-paid workers are often the least 'key' at times like this - then I guess nothing will. But sure, the solution is just to pay programmers more money, because that is all they care about.
Since it is verifiable (proof-of-consent) seems to be better.
Ah okay I see thank you. I bet there are many places using paper and excel so there will definitely be room for your product. I've been in the lending market before, we partnered with banks to do it e.g. Alior in Poland. So the business would make a payment to the employee, and you're software could track the payment and repayments? Would you want to initiate the payments too or just track them?
So n=2 of Moore’s law for you. Keep going.
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Use roadmunk or Asana because they have timeline view. Stakeholders love that.

The right way is to collaboratively change your roadmap over time. The wrong way is to restrictively stick to spec from the start.

Roadmaps are not things like Jira tasks, and vice versa.
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I know I can escape into the k interpreter with a \ (backslash)

I don't know how to find the documentation for the k version that is shipped with kdb+ (free non commercial download). I only find broken links (it seems they removed the k documentation from kx.com website?)
I'll likely run they this course. I've always been interested in this kind of tech, I did mastering the mainframe previously
> You cannot build a system out of independent components!

I disagree, the Unix philosophy proves otherwise. You can build very powerful applications, just by combining grep, sed, ls, ... and the like.
The article is specifically talking about their DB solution "across the three major cloud providers" = Amazon/MS/Google.
I guess the thing about Fortran, to circle back to your question, is that it isn't common in critical infrastructure.
There are gas turbine based buses and trucks used in eastern Europe where LNG imported from Siberia is plentiful.

They're not common in my city, but there's (only) one on the bus line that drives by my house. It's only a bit louder than piston engines buses, but the sound is very distinctive so you can hear it from a mile away.
> And, yet, you've taken it pretty seriously to diss Clojure/Neanderthal and my blog post

I have not - all I've said so far is that your benchmark is flawed.

The fact that the code fragment above assumes zero mean data (thus using 2 fewer L1 ops) doesn't change a single thing in anything that has been written; to wit, the timings change to 28.6ms (GPU) and 333 ms (CPU). Pedantry is not an argument.
Multi-anything is a hard problem.
> Static Site Generators

how can that be detected ? I'm curious.
I don't use docker - I have never really used it and wasn't going to start. It's using one DO server, a 4 vCPU, but could be using much much less. Before posting I upgraded it from a 5$ machine
The turnserver is a $5 DO server.

Feel free to email me - ben@readastorytome.com and I will gladly fill you in on all the nitty details around the deployment. It's embarrassingly simple :)
And somehow, the first thing I think of is "you found that all-important pointless answer". :)
> Underrepresented groups are actively recruited but don't get more attempts.

Yes they do. They are not subject to the same cool down period on a phone screen failure. Remember, google pitches it as “looking for a good signal” so retrying until the candidate passes isn’t lowering the bar in their mind (even though it is because phone screens are flawed but that’s another discussion).

> If you think otherwise just ask an engineer from an underrepresented groups about their recruiting experiences.

I have, I worked there when this started several years back. Several got a chance at a phone rescreen sooner than the normal back-off and one got an invite to come back for a second on-site because “the signal wasn’t clear” on the first.
That just gets them through this crisis but leaves everything else unchanged.

Someone needs to decide whether Cobol is going to live or die. If it is going to live then people have to stop pretending that it is not there, create proper training courses for it and recruit people to maintain and develop the systems properly. And of course the requirements should be reviewed and updated to include the capacity to cope with the volume of work that is being experienced by these systems.

Of course this won't happen because as soon as the crisis is past all those USD 1000 per hour people will be laid off, the employers will breath a sigh of relief that it is all over and go back to their old ways.
Gamification:

In countries with a working social security system, getting into proximity of a known infected person can be rather easily achieved.

In countries without a working social security system, staying 'clear' is easily achieved by turning of your BT or phone or even just lining your pocket with tin foil.
Just because you can stay airborne indefinitely doesn't mean that you're not going to ever land.
How will you get them otherwise? There are way more jobs than qualified developers. Why would anyone want to work on an antiquated technology stack like Cobol? By the time they get up to speed on fixing the Cobol systems, the pandemic will be over. The real solution is to think long term and rewrite all of these antiquated systems so that the next time there is an emergency it will be much simpler to find qualified developers.
I think we can conclude only one thing from the number: by the time people are put on ventilators, their survival chance is very low. This certainly means: more ventilators won't save many people - but it may well be, that if 80% of the ventilated patients die, they saved 20% of the patients. That would assume, that the patients had died, if they had not been ventilated. Which of course depends, at which point in the development doctors put patients onto ventilation.
Are the clients paying you to fulfill their requests or are you just making their unfunded dreams come true? If they are paying is it a reasonable proportion of the cost for your teams development work? How strong was the product vision originally?
Employee here. Due to covid-19, Microsoft is extending parental leave to all employees with kids aged between 0-12 years. This isn't normal parental leave that you take within a year after child birth.
> If anything I'd say the opposite: we'd expect most of the Harvard graduating class to be on roughly the same level, it seems a lot less wild that some self-taught people could be 10x better than others.

That's not the point I was trying to make- I'm saying that in programming we both prize talent born of nature, and skill honed by nurture. (Though admittedly that may exist in many other disciplines.) Because of the latter emphasis on grit, hacker culture encourages self-improvement and going beyond the capacities one started with. That dogma of self-improvement goes against the notion that people are not cut out to be programmers.

Though of course, this could also be a marketing ploy for recruitment on behalf of management: "Anyone can code, you should learn to. But we only hire from the best." By encouraging an increase in talent, they have a larger labor pool to choose from (and potentially undercut wages), while plucking out the few that can pass their interviews.

> This happens in every field though?

To some degree, but the details vary. Medicine or law used to be seen as safe secure careers into the (upper) middle class, but doctors are limited through the AMA, and currently law is a notoriously difficult and costly profession with dwindling prospects. Entertainment and the arts is universally known as a risky proposition. We're talking about software, which has had the reputation of being the current surefire path to a stable, even successful, career, for at least the past two or three decades.

> Well, if we told people outright that programming is a matter of IQ, and gave an actual IQ test rather than an IQ-like test in interviews, that might help some people realise it's not for them.

Leaving aside the legality of using IQ tests to exclude candidates, that opens up the questions of if there is a direct correlation between programming good software and IQ, why programming out of all STEM fields should focus so heavily on IQ, and why all of those other technical and engineering professions don't need to resort to IQ tests for hiring.
Good chatting with you, Scott.
Great chatting with you, too!
What do you need to survive? Food, water, and shelter.

If society collapsed how would you acquire those, and how would you stop others from stealing them from you?

Answer those two questions and you'll have somewhere to start.

If this ever did come to pass (which I think is highly unlikely) you'll want to be fit, strong, and intelligent. I don't expect "interviews" would ever be a thing, but who knows. Watch some horror movies, see how individuals join/form groups, and stop over-thinking!
Love the analogy! Clarifies a lot.
I haven’t personally used it, but I keep hearing good things about https://canny.io
I agree. It really looks to me as if there is not enough availability of this technology for hobbyists and startups - many startups started from some hobby tinkering with a technology. The big industry doesn't seem to be very interested, so one would need startups to bring more applications to the market.
Oxygen isn't necessarily harmless. https://evidence.nihr.ac.uk/alert/a-reminder-that-too-much-o...
That would be an incorrect assumption. The Gangelt study is about one small town in Germany where there was a known superspreading event at the Carnival festival.

If 15% of the US had already been infected, then based on the Gangelt study, there would be 200 thousand deaths, and millions hospitalized with severe illness.

You're completely misreading the Gangelt study.
Ah, I did not know that! I assume, though, that that mode doesn't implement ANC. Given that, I'm not sure it explains your symptoms.
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"Integrating photonic circuits on conventional electronic chips would enable faster data transfer and lower energy consumption without raising the chip’s temperature, which could make it particularly useful for data-intensive applications like machine learning."

Sounds potentially like a big deal :)
It would be funny if of the three that has left A has an issue with B who in turn has an issue with C who has an issue with A. But it's not funny.
> According to some claims up to 70% of corona infections could not result in observable symptoms.

This is a ridiculous claim

Any place that has done random sampling is reporting a very low asymptomatic rate
Thank you, for sharing.
Actually `main` in Haskell can be an IO action returning any type, eg this is a perfectly valid main:

main :: IO Int
main = print "10" >> pure 10

the return value is just ignored when it's actually invoked as an executable (but can be used if invoked eg. in the repl, or if main is also called from somewhere deeper in the code).
Good thing I have a removable battery on my phone.
The UK was going to that but the numbers of dead / ICU treated looked too high.
> crowding in the hospitals seems like a load balancing problem to me

The problem is that once a patient is so far gone that they are on a ventilator in the ICU, even the regular movements of going over speed bumps and potholes become potentially life threatening.

That's in the best of times. Given that hospitals are running out of PPE, what are the chances that they can even move an infected patient without collateral damage that would further serve to overwhelm the hospitals they are moving the patient to?
You have to include multiple perspectives. Make a list of the top 5 features...

- you think your customers need

- your customers want (ask them!)

- which offer the highest return on invest

- your product needs when being compared with your competitors

When you have answered those questions, you should have a good feeling about which features you want to implement first. Next, ask the devs how your priorities match up with the development of the application and how much time it would take to build them. Some features might technically depend on each other.

Edit: Btw. changing priorities is okay, as long as nobody has started to work on a feature. As soon as the implementation started you better finish it. Make sure your business team commits to the things you start implementing and get the commitment from the dev team to finish things in time.
10€ inflatable ball.

I got rid of a chair four years ago, in favour of a large inflatable ball. I got mine from Decathlon (a French sports outlet) for about 10€, I took the XXL size (the largest, maybe it was XL).

I subjectively feel that I have less back pains, I move on the ball all the time (twists, jumps) and when I remember I lay fown with my upper back on the ball and feet on the ground.

One person asked me once to please stop bouncing during a video confrence because he was feeling sea sick. This is to say that one really moves all the time with such a ball.
I would bet that more people know what a transistor is than what a brain cell is.

No chance. Everyone knows what a brain cell is, to some extent. Even people who have too few to rub together don't really feel like they know what a transistor is after reading the Wikipedia page for them, twice...
I posted a link in my original comment to a source indicating that's not what doctors are concluding.

It's also not what I'm concluding.

While I'm not a doctor, my life literally depends upon me having a fairly substantial amount of knowledge about things like my lung function. In contrast, you opened with saying you don't have much medical knowledge, this just seems logical to you.

I will suggest you do more reading. Your logic doesn't really hold up in this case.
Saw |> in the example and came here to say the same thing! I used LiveScript for a while and it was very fun to use for personal projects.
That's harsh criticism, maybe well deserved, but doesn't provide a solution. The GP provided a solution with money that's reasonable. This is a short term need that requires a fast turn around. Training brand new programmers doesn't sound efficient at all.

There's also the context of more money in a time when the fed prints trillions of dollars every week. This will be a drop in the bucket, and in an environment where governments have decided to spend their way out of the problem.
As far as I know mechanical ventilation is the last resort.

It's all about the oxygen saturation. If that is too low, patients usually get oxygen first, and of course all the other issues need to be treated, if necessary. If SpO% is still too low, they try the ventilator.

My point is: There is a very good reason patients go on a ventilator. They don't get enough oxygen. When they are on the ventilator, they DO have enough oxygen. And you really need that oxygen to survive and recuperate... So not putting them on a ventilator is sort of contra-indicated.
I'd say identify common templates? Or "made with Jekyll" blocks

If it's a custom templates I think it's impossible.
Some of them output META-tags, or footers such as "powered by XXX".
Looks like the link to the CSV file is broken, which is a shame.
“generator” meta tag? https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#meta-g...