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I would love to be so closed-minded as you, not realizing that other people are different than you.

Ignorance is a bliss.

Some people are in tech because its a job, not because they love it. Some people got burned out. Some people discover other things that they love more then what they doing currently.
Aye, I hear you. I was giving it more thought over the last few days having written the above comment, and I realised that what happens in tech interviews is that I switch my mode of thinking.

Under normal circumstances, I sit and problem solve, thinking only of the issue at hand, branching out and following leads and so on.

Under interview circumstances, I instead try to anticipate what the person scrutinising me wants to see, and try to like, game an ungameable situation, which blocks my natural problem solving thinking.

I have noticed that when I'm in a position of subordination, I do worse creatively. This isn't to say I can't work as employee, but rather in specific situations, such as "person knows x and is just watching me try to do x", I enter this reactive thought mode.

Conversely, when I am in a superordinate position, I find myself much more creative than my baseline, thinking clearly and well.

I don't know how to handle this for interviews.
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Never enjoyed it. I knew from the second day of my first tech job that it wasn't what I wanted to be doing, but I blamed the job itself rather than the industry. Moved on after a year and tried other tech jobs (different size companies, different types of software), but they were all essentially the same.

I like building things for people to use, but as a programmer found myself very isolated from users (even at small companies). It felt like I was doing the hard work of building a product but then someone else got to do the fun part of showing it off, while my reward was just... more programming.

Also, I found the job extremely boring at times, extremely difficult at others. I decided that the stress wasn't worth it, especially when my work was having a limited impact.

Finally, I'm not in the USA so tech jobs had no "golden handcuffs". Many other jobs were available that paid as well as a Software Engineer.

I still work on personal programming projects, where I can be much more involved in the whole product and not just the code. I can also choose to only work on things that I really care about and/or that I feel can make a real difference.
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Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation!
To clarify I don't work for Amazon nor related to them in any way. The situation just seemed unfair to me ...
It's also not 100% a joke, if you really think about what that post was saying. I'm betting most people on this site don't get the 'regular' user experience, because we are more likely to use alternate search sites and ad blockers than standard users. Honestly, had the original poster not pointed out the change in ad placements, I never would've known.

And that now has me thinking about what kind of ads people like my parents are seeing, and how that informs their worldview.
I care about writing clean and simple code in an easy way. I found that the node ecosystem with npm packages allows me to do this very well.

I had that same feeling in the 2.4-2.5 days of Python. But now it was really hard to find simple API's.

Let me give you an example about parsing JSON. This is the Python way:

json.load(fp, , cls=None, object_hook=None, parse_float=None, parse_int=None, parse_constant=None, object_pairs_hook=None, kw)

Seriously, how F(&#$%@ING complex can you make the thing?

This is Javascript:

JSON.parse(text[, reviver])

Ah, that's the way I like it :)

But hey, if you want all that argument power, no problem for me. I'm a simple programmer, liking simple things. And that was my point, Python has lost its simple ways. The JavaScript language might have some weird shit, but I don't care about that because I can stay far away from it. I care about simple programming.
I’m glad that this is not happening in my country. Banning Amazon from selling nonessential items seems detrimental to society. The “nonessential items” that Amazon sells are still pretty important for living my life. I’m sure there are some ways that worker health could be protected better, but at this point I wouldn’t trust the French government to make intelligent judgments on behalf of public health.
The good news is that it's a global activity. If you live anywhere in Europe, there's like to be a party you can attend. Australia and North America has a few, and some great competition has come out of Japan in the last few years.

More importantly, anybody can host a competition and have a party. The local party scene is really the heart and soul of the scene. Get 20-30 people together, hang out in somebody's basement for a weekend, and at the end have a competition with whatever people have had lying around on their computers.

1 - https://www.demoparty.net/
Well, might as well recline the hell out of your seat then. :-)
Cool thanks for the info.
Can i just update from wSL1 or do i need to be careful? Bit scared that it will screw up some things :-)

Thanks
Passenger flights also carry cargo.
Be careful with your heretical thinking around here.
The... ring0 process?
That red pill you took turned out to be blue all the facts and evidence indicate this "novel" corona virus is a United States bioweapon. Now we are seeing a massive push that google and apple must be allowed to "contact trace" all Americans.
Well I am learning the old way - take a laptop and try something new, starting with small and then the project grows. Always enjoyed bottom up learning and discovery. I mostly do that in winter as in summer I prefer outdoors.

Edit: I have been blessed that despite two engineering degrees (financial math and electronic engineering) I have never worked as a programmer for living.

Since I have learned by trial and error 6502 assembler to hack strategy games on C-64 programming have always been unspoiled free time, pure fun activity for me. And 19 programming languages later it is still so.

I live in small summerhouse, eat simple food, cook, own old, small car that I use only when necessary. I prefer biking whenever possible. Buy most clothes and stuff used or heavily discounted. Buying used stuff is also good for the planet. Learnt a lot of DIY which is both cool and satifying.

I despise urban enviroment but have to visit the city cause I take care of older parents. So the summerhouse and living in the forrest is both a choice and a way to spend less on rent..

In a way I always wanted this but given the opportunity I had been chasing money, opportunities, new experiences, following the rat race etc. Now as this is over I feel less conflicted which makes me happier.
Rings have been SS in canada for a couple decades, too. Still faceted, though.

One in a while you meet a really old school engineer with a dull iron (or carbon steel?) ring and the facets have been worn smooth.
Impressive list. Isn't it up to future civilizations which parts of our culture become heritage? What is the benefit of defining it as such? Protecting the culture? At what cost?

I don't mean to downplay the importance, I'm just wondering if it is up to us, and if it is worth it. Heck, can we even reasonably decide if such is worth it? Does it matter? I don't know.
I don't see how losing their older relatives to a virus that they could have avoided doesn't qualify those people as "impacted".
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You might enjoy http://lite.cnn.com
Gets rid of all the cruft on the site and just shows you article text.
How much did you have saved when you set out? Have you worked at all in the last ten years?
Another complication and I'm sure the task force is wrestling with this. If you undo the restrictions you're never going to be able to put them back in place and have the adherence you did the first time. I just don't believe the people will accept being on lock-down for weeks, then getting a taste of getting back to work and then being asked to go back on lock-down. I also didn't believe people in the US would follow the lock-down rules anywhere near to the degree they have so :shrug: who knows?
Sharepoint has an uncertain future? I had never heard of it a year ago, but as I got to know the "enterprise" space, it seems every large company is heavily invested in it. What might replace the need to share documents across a company in the MS world?
My personality changed around my early 30s in a way that meant I found it very hard to align myself with anything less than the highest quality leaders in the company.

Which is a euphemism for “I turned into an obnoxious punk” but I’m fine with that too :)

It feels like as the years pass and ones sense of autonomy as a human being overflows the brim, it gets harder to tolerate not being your own boss.

I took five years off work and was complete master of my destiny, which finally wore off, and I now work at a private boarding school that is recognized globally as being a center of excellence for teaching and learning.

The summary is it’s completely different and challenging to switch careers like this. It’s also been fantastic because (1) I am naturally a very gifted teacher (2) but I am completely unqualified, very raw, and full of newbie naivety which is all very humbling (3) and yet very liberating as once again the expectations on me are low and I have room to learn and grow, and (4) I am surrounded by people who actually know what they are doing and are committed to helping me get better.

The best part is that I can approach the day to day of the new role and the skills it requires with the mindset of someone who has been through one career already. I may turn into a punk again but for now I’m enjoying being a level headed journeyman surrounded by masters.
I still see quite a few flights from France to international destinations. For instance, right now AF342 - Paris - Montreal. Technically, France has been in a rather strict lockdown for a month, and all non-essential trips are strongly regulated. I really wonder who is in those planes. Canadians finally deciding to go home? Can they even make it to the airport without getting fined? And can French people even leave the Shengen area? Let say a French citizen wants to go to some country that still accept them, can they find a flight and go there somewhat legally?
There are a lot of ways to make 6 figures.

It's not playing if you don't enjoy it ;)
It's a teaser for a book which comes out next week. There will be much more informative reviews and articles then, I'm sure.
The issue is, should they regulate the particular behavior of a corporation, by dictating their business practices? No. Other things they could have done:

Rule that businesses have to protect their employees in certain ways (masks, sanitization etc)

Rule that employees density must be reduced (fewer per building etc)

Rule that testing should be done to detect issues quickly

Instead, they decided to make lists of what should be shipped. Which backfired, since Amazon can't keep the doors open on a tiny list of products. And further, the list was wrong. Who says I don't need 6 yards of plastic sheeting, to separate my house into separate zones and reduce infection from quarantined individuals? What about small plastic bottles to dole out hand sanitizer to family members that are essential personnel not being supported by their institution? What about 100 products the French never thought of, that can help?

It was a small-minded wrong-headed decision, just ripe for unintended consequences and disaster. Which they got.

Those folks will be jobless soon, but now it's because of the French decision.
I guess I'll have to read that book.

I'm a similar age to the author and have also experienced a good deal of disillusionment about the tech industry. Like her, I absolutely did idolize tech companies as a kid, despite only ever reading about them from afar. I even bought into the concept of these places being pure meritocracies and forces for good.

I still love tech and most people who work in the field, but it's apparent that it's not a pure meritocracy by any means. Not that any industry is, to be fair. I still have no regrets about choosing this career and think that technology jobs in general offer an outsized opportunity compared to most other jobs, especially for ambitious working class kids. I do think though that the highly regional nature of top-tier jobs and capital heavily favors the SF area excludes a good portion of talent from the tech startup scene, especially black people and rural people. You would think the absurd housing costs in that area would provide incentives to branch out, but network effects are powerful and the wealthy investor class don't feel the pain from that issue. The end result is a physical and cultural bubble around tech in SV that will decrease the ability of tech startups to contribute genuine innovation moving forward.

Like many things related to capitalism, it's not terribly hard to identify problematic patterns and unequal outcomes - but proposing solutions is much harder. Will be curious to read what the Author believes can help, and why.
nowhere does the parent mention SMS - they're talking about backup codes, which exist regardless of whether you use TOTP or SMS or something else.
Because it's The Register, it's their house style.
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yes, the same one.
Are there other good resources to learn about TCP and UDP? Everyone recommends the Stevens book so I think I should get that?
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According to this reuters[1] article the distancing rules weren't enforced. Limiting Amazon to the sale of essential goods seems to be intended to reduce the workforce and ensure that distancing rules could be observed consistently. I am not french however at least in Germany the distancing rules are handed down from the government and not something Amazon could simply cast beside in favor of its own measures.

[1]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-amazon...
I've read doctors have just been attributing deaths that look like Covid 19 to exactly that. Even without proper verification.

Also it's only what is reported. There could've been a million people with it in the US but nobody knew...and still don't.

I really agree that we used a tsunami to put out a campfire. There was no reason to close everything basically. If this was like a 25% mortality rate of all those who got it, then yeah, the response would've been appropriate. This is like less than a percent for the majority of the population, a few percent for infants, and a few extra percent for old people. Which already have been at risk just for the sake of being old.

This whole event is just the media at large and social media blindly following as well overexaggerating this "crisis." 2008 was a crisis cause a bubble burst and banks defaulted. This was something made up that really did not need to be this drastic.
This post is a perfect distillation of why there should be more history and other humanities subjects in traditionally STEM educations.

>Can't we just appreciate the spirit of inventiveness in a crisis, without having to spoil it by fretting about issues that any grown adult working with this stuff will be fully capable of considering?

Can't we just appreciate the inventiveness of using radium to light up watch dials? Or the inventiveness of the first friction matches?

Someone who is educated or trained doesn't necessarily make a dangerous invention a net-positive.
Doesn’t that argument just indicate that web browsers are in fact more widely used and “successful”?
As most democratic countries, France has a complete separation between the government and the justice system.

This is a justice decision. The government has nothing to do with it.
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Following that logic, wouldn't be everyting that eats content to display them malleable? Image-viewers, audio&video-players, office-applications, MS Paint and Windows Notepad? They all have the core-functionality of showing something to the user which is not embedded in their source-code, while this core-functionality is part of it.

If anything, I would go for web pages as a malleable system. Because with userscripts and userstyles you can change them however you want.
The parties might be not happening for a while now, but it is true that Demos are a very democratic activity and caters to a great breadth of programmers.

Yes, there are hyper-specialized groups that can cram a full 3D-shooter in 64k but you don't need to do that. You can play with something simpler.
Biology, math, physics, paychology
I love the Gitlab CI. It’s so easy to create a new project, and the CI is ready to go. No fumbling around, and the integration is great with the Gitlab docker image store.
You can approximate one with the other; it used to be common when normals were harder to work with early computers.

Eg, https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/05/18/normal-approximati...
Find your way into Industrial Electrical work if you can. You get a strong mix of tech and electrical, moreso than Residential, can't really say the comparison to Commercial work though...

My company (Automation & controls) is partnered with electricians for all the jobs we bid on. Having electricians that know wiring for specialized bus networks, how to do basic troubleshooting on control circuits and all that is amazing to have.

Alternatively, for those reading this in the tech side, the job is super engaging. I get to work on programming machines the size of my bedroom. I get to travel and see equally interesting locations (Dam spillways, Agricultural facilities inland and at port, underground mines, etc.). The fact that I get to get out of my office a few days a month is a big reason I've stuck with my job for as long as I have (7+ years now)

EDIT TO INCLUDE SOME PICTURES (Both the Cool and the Ugly):

https://imgur.com/5uOWDGB
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You could always switch to a company that doesn't make its money with ads. For example I work for Snowflake and I don't feel like I'm building stuff to screw the end user at all. I just make our database better. I also worked for Siemens. There too I didn't try to screw any users, I just tried to make trains run cheaper, faster and more reliably.
This is resonating with me. I'm still working in the tech industry but considering a change. To which industry did you switched?
I love this blog! The various posts on battle tactics in fantasy series are some of my absolute favorites. The six part series on the Siege of Gondor[1] was the first thing I read from there, and I’ve been subscribed ever since

1: https://acoup.blog/2019/05/10/collections-the-siege-of-gondo...
It's an excellent time -- climate change is a much greater danger to us all than covid19 has been or will be. The economical consequences of climate change will also be much bigger than covid19 on the longer haul.

And many of the results of covid19 on society are the same as what must be done to combat climate change.

Covid19 has shown that extreme measures are possible if people actually believe in the consequences. It is also a good case that early prevention could have saved a lot of economical loss later on when the issue has grown too large to be ignored any longer, just like with climate change.
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I share your frustration. If you're trying to be realistic and straight-forward about the limitations of AI/ML, you're getting little interest from investors. Here's an anecdote. I was at an "AI in drug discovery" conference 2 years ago. One of the presenters, the founder of a drug discovery start-up, emphatically made the claim in a talk that "we should deliberately overhype AI in drug discovery, to raise awareness of what we as an industry can accomplish". I was gobsmacked by this. And yet, in the social mixer afterwards, the investors I spoke with LIKED this approach- they said the boastful founder was bold and visionary, and they didn't care that he was exaggerating the capabilities of his company. So, that's why all we hear is hype- founders are just responding to investor incentives.

That's also why I work as a freelance consultant and not as a founder. I think that autonomous driving (rather, the lack of such) is going to be what triggers the next AI winter. Too much money and hype, too little results for too long- the rope is wearing quite thin from what I can see.
However, CPUs have much much better branching performance, and are much easier to fully utilize.
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Our grocery chain has been buying rice and flour in bulk from restaurant supply houses and repackaging them in 1lb bags. Pretty agile if you ask me.
I understand the desire to get home, but, doesn’t that defeat the whole purpose if quarantine? The virus doesn’t care that you’re not at home.
The journalists are just doing what their employer asks them too.

Their employer is trying to sell papers/clicks.

No enough people are willing to pony up for good journalism like the parent comment -- I'm generalizing but most people don't even like to read long form journalism anymore.

If we want to know why journalism sucks we need to look in the mirror.
> we should have such a large testing capacity that testing symptomatic people isn't a stretch.

We should, but we don't. Group testing dramatically expands the number of people we can test. However group testing collapses at high prevalence. Since we expect people with fever and cough to be more likely COVID+ than the general population prevalence when we can only run a limited number of cases we'll inevitably miss more positives by testing people with symptoms.
"Banning a book" colloquially means that nobody is allowed to read that book, it conjures images of book burnings and the gestapo searching your house for contraband. "Banning" a repo here means, "Github is not offering you free resources to develop your code. Fortunately, you're using a distributed source control management scheme so everyone has a backup. Please take it elsewhere."
I am surprised it’s only 8.7%, shouldn’t it be atleast 50% or more? The only businesses making money are grocery stores.
Competition is good for the end user, but ISTM that Microsoft bought the biggest player in the space so that they could drown the competition in the bathtub and monopolize the market. It's a smart play from Microsoft's point of view, but FTC should never have permitted the acquisition in the first place and should prosecute them for illegal dumping now.
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The most amazing is how owner of the property let it sit for 20 years.
I suspect lot of states in the Eurozone have failed to act soon enough because they cannot print their own money to handle the economic shutdown fiscally, so they waited till the last moment to some signal from the ECB, which never came. In the U.S., there was a similar deal but on the state vs federal level.
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Intermittent seems quite possible. Every time the death rate spikes, we'll have to lock down again.

Chances are, some region will decide against doing that, and their outcome will provide a clear incentive for everyone else to be more rigorous about it.