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Interesting, though subjective perspective.

My experience (no STEM degree, self-taught except for a few classes)--> You get out what you put in.

Want success?

Work + Strategy + Skills => Success

(Not skills from 20 years ago. Skills you built recently, on contemporary, in-demand areas of knowledge.)

Having studies a little statistics, I understand that outputs are typically the result of several inputs ("factors"), some of which we are aware of, some of which we are not aware of/which are not analyzable ("lurking" variables).

So, for example:

The output you look for: to be hired as a software developer

Some potential factors which are responsible for the success in yielding the desired output:

- Current skills relative to the currently in-demand skills (i.e. are you a COBOL developer? Good luck-- look at the top 10 programming languages, perhaps choose to learn one from the top 3, such as Javascript, Python, etc.)

- Geographic area. (i.e. are you expecting a web dev job in West Virginia, Kentucky, etc? Or are you actually looking in places with "competitive advantage" in the technology domain, such as San Francisco Bay Area, Washington DC Area, New York City area?)

- Your personality. (i.e. are you pleasant to be around?)

- How well you interview. (i.e. are you good at presenting yourself?)

- How much time you put into marketing yourself (i.e. do you have a portfolio website? do you have open source code projects whereby you have code examples on github?)

- Are you actively learning new, popular languages/frameworks/libraries?

- How well are you targeting job descriptions with your skills and resume (i.e. "product-market fit" where you are the product, and the jobs you apply to are the market. Are you applying to jobs where you meet 70% of desired requirements, or just doing "spray and pray" type of applications?)
If we want to stay below 2 degrees we need to stop selling cars.
Every attempt to start discussions about the architecture, or even about minor things like how we should structure a module

[random internet advice]

The organization/team made a decision in the past and moved forward. You weren't there. You don't know how buy-in was achieved. You don't have the big organizational picture. Yet to a first approximation, you're telling everyone they are doing it wrong. Changing the structure of modules might make you more productive but it requires everyone to change the way they are doing things and to do so without misunderstanding at best and passive aggressive resistance in the average case and destructive behavior in the worst.

Don't misunderstand me, I've put myself in similar situations in the past...enough that I could run out of fingers to count them and be forced to take off my socks. What I've realized is that on average, I was more wrong in the ways I was wrong than I was right in the ways I was right. Or to put it another way, it's theoretically correct that soft tires will provide better traction than all season tires in a rain storm, but pulling off the road to swap out tires in the middle of a downpour isn't ordinarily a good idea and so loading an extra set of tires into the back seat is typically a waste of time when the goal is driving from Seattle to Boston and then to Miami in February.

Your in a new culture. Be anthropological and observe and learn with minimal intervention. Just because it is different from the cultures you know does not mean it's broken or wrong. Again there is a big picture and the big picture is about people making money and alternative engineering approaches are usually rounding error. To be explicit, the way things were done at your previous employer were the practices of a failing business. That might be a reason to treat those practices as suspect.

Good luck.
I use BlueJeans at work is this is what they do. I'm not so sure that Zoom is doing this. The side effects are that it heavily restricts what kinds of layouts you can use, and you will frequently see everyone's face go pixelated in a way thats super clear it's a single stream. Stuff like BlueJeans will only show you at most 9 users in a grid, even if more than 9 have video on. They will never have rows of 3 and then a row of two users. I don't see this behavior with Zoom but I only use it about once a month for random meetings.
Tumblr, for all that people mock it, is one of the few remaining semi-holdouts.
From examples of things you have used them for at work. The more you use them, then the more you should ask about them.
Well that's pretty naive. I've worked with some pretty good teams that wouldn't work any other way. I suspect you've only worked at places that abused agile as described here... https://ronjeffries.com/articles/language-of-hatred/
Nobody argues that we should take no action. The question is what specific actions we should take.
My personal experience has been that the weather forecasts have been consistently colder/wetter than the actual weather over the last 6 weeks, which has been surprisingly sunny almost every day. (Oregon, USA)
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> Someone owns the computers, and someone owns the blockchains/ their data.

That's the beautiful part. That someone is the end user, who is running a full node. The reason that blockchains require every node to have all the data is so that every end user is in full control of the commitments made by the blockchain.

Efficient? No. But does it invert the typical power relationship? Yes! Blockchains put the user in control.

(fine print: this is not necessarily true for many Proof of Stake chains, also not true many lite client models (including most Bitcoin lite clients), also not true if you have on-chain governance, also not true if the blockchain makes other compromising design decisions such as auto-updating, most cryptocurrencies fall short in at least half a dozen ways)
I'm not sure how big Oberwolfach's library is, but the first pic looks more like a (somewhat fancy) journals/new acquisitions display than like primary storage.
Vitamin D is not absorbed instantly when exposed to the sun. Soap and hot showers removes what is left so levels are also affected by personal hygiene habits.
>Seriously, the list of scientist and medical organizations advising through this period is so long, I don't know why anyone who isn't at equally experienced tries to counter-claim their insights.

The average scientist or medical organisation has no more economic knowledge than a layman. The costs of the lockdown are primarily economic. We couldn't possibly make the best decisions by listening to people who are only in a position to identify the benefits of the lockdown (medical) and not the costs (economic). In that regard, some random blogger is just as qualified to assess the economic costs as some random doctor or epidemiologist.
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Exactly. “Obese” is a very broad term that could mean anything from 10 pounds overweight to “fused to your couch because you can’t stand up.”
I don't understand - Why the choice?

Solar + battery backup is currently cheaper than coal, and seems to be continuing its pattern of halving in price around every seven to ten years

It doesn't make economic sense to build coal power plants for most of the world

It takes on average six years to build a coal or gas power plant. During that six years, the price of solar will have almost halved again
There are some larger 40x4 character display VFDs out there: https://www.noritake-itron.jp/eng/products/module/cu-u/

Gas plasma displays were made in larger sizes though. A common example would be the orange screens on arcade machines.
thats a lot of words for saying absolutely nothing
It certainly should have been more focused and surgical. There are so many ways it could have been handled better. But, simply nobody made preparations for any of them in advance.

By the time NYC locked down, the virus had likely already been spreading unimpeded for weeks. The only possible short term solution was the population-wide lockdown, which "fixed" the issue in that it stopped the immediate disaster from becoming even worse. In nursing homes already infected, it was simply too late at that time.

The fact that the lockdown was required is evidence of a colossal failure on the part of our society. Our infrastructure should have been able to target this more precisely and we (the US) specifically squandered a huge advantage we had in that we had time to clearly see the progress of the virus overseas before it arrived, but did nothing useful with that time.

Even after all of this, few steps have been made to make the transition from "shut it all down" to a strategy that involves broad testing and targeted protection of vulnerable populations. It seems people are resigned to keeping the daily death rate steady and eventually just letting all vulnerable members of the population contract the virus and die.
Nobody has yet said the words "lock-in device". Everybody moans about lock-in devices when it's convenient for them, but then they throw away the ability to use anything else by committing full-tilt to these mobile platforms where to install "unapproved" apps you have to literally hack your own device.

Apple and Google got rich doing what we would have lambasted Microsoft for, because our judgement is clouded by brands.
yeah because after my 4s sprint it will take me 20s to walk back to my desk.
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That's awesome. Is your wife the girl from Starbucks?
>I used to get called a 10x developer, I was also called a rockstar and a ninja and a 100x dev and every other compliment that was hip.

The 10x developer talk is just hype by unscrupulous employers to entice young engineers to have an unhealthy work life balance. Of course they don't tell that to older developers because they would call you on their bullshit.

I know a lot of professional developers that are in their 40s, 50s, and 60s. What keeps these engineers employed is not how great they are technically, but that they are humble, flexible, willing to share their experience, and are social inside and outside of work (large networks).

>Make a backup plan now.
Agreed you should always have a plan B.

Here are a few ideas:

1) Ageism is real no denial of that, but so is racism, sexism, ableism. We all have to work through that nonsense. Don't give up.

2) There are a shit-ton more well paying technical jobs that need coders than just software developer roles, expand your horizons.

3) There are public/private sector employers that need software developers badly who are willing to be flexible. (see NJ needs COBOL developers)

4) Remote developer work is taking off. I think they care less about where you live, what you look like, or how old you are.
From the article:

> So I’m going to try to bootstrap my software engineering longbeard wisdom in the following manner:

> 1) Write out my inane thoughts on some software engineering topics.

> 2) Share out my thoughts to people smarter than me and invite vicious critique.

> 3) Update based on #2.

> 4) Attempt to come up with a methodology for finding and prioritizing useful information to read about software engineering, or reflections based on new projects, and integrating into #1.
It's a great/perfect name for what it is, and I really enjoyed their branding. Also it's basically the same idea - but that is definitely something I'm considering.
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It's worth nothing from the euromomo site that the latest data is from week 16 (it's currently week 18) and the top of the page says it was last updated in week 17.

They also note on the page:

> Week of study: 17, 2020.Must be interpreted with caution as adjustments for delayed registrations may be imprecise.
I don't know for sure whether nuclear plants can be built fast enough so I can't really agree or disagree with you there, but while I do certainly agree that we need to curtail consumption of fossil fuels yesterday, so far it looks like that curtailing gets us at most 8% (we're not going to get a stronger example than cancelling air and most car traffic in all of the most pollutive-per-capita countries: nobody would go follow such measures if it weren't for a pandemic but for a potential extinction event more than a year in the future).

We need more than 8%, way more.
Would you have been glad to die to keep the economy moving?
this is the elephant in the room,

it is not fashionable to talk about, it does not fit the current narrative - the scientific "group think" when it comes to the virus is incredibly strong
Dr. Doom again?

He's been consistently getting things wrong for a long time now.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/191984-the-great-roubini-wr...
Unironic how the lack of a union puts the company a greater risk of collapse.
No one would ever call me a 10x engineer and I am in your same age group, yet I find that there are plenty of jobs out there for me (or at least there were pre-pandemic). What could explain why I can get interviews and job offers and you cannot? Because it's not age. Maybe stack? I'm all JavaScript. Maybe region? I work remotely (out of state) now but most of my ~5 year career has been in the Bay Area.
> Software is simply the encoding of human thought, and as such has an almost unbounded design space.

It's always this kind of vague, fluffy language that tells you all you need to know about all cryptocurrencies.

All these companies are trying to fluff up demand for something that is only valuable if (new) people invest.

Please Hacker News: please show me the concrete value of cryptocurrencies, I don't see them.

I only get hypothetical answers, often including paranoid delusions about governments and strange conceptions of freedom.

Cryptocurrencies seem to be an answer to a problem nobody has.

https://louwrentius.com/cryptocurrencies-are-detrimental-to-...
A 1x developer at one of the tier 1 tech companies is...just a 1x developer - doesn't really matter where you're at.

Being a multiplier is not about just being technically proficient. It's about enabling your whole team to be more productive, and help getting to the right decisions, instead of decisions that might cost your team or coworkers huge amounts of extra work long term.
I am almost 40, and I fully expect this to be my last software development job. Likewise, I've never had a negative performance review and am usually the top task-killer and bug-destroyer; but when recruiters call and find out I'm married with kids they can't seem to hang up fast enough.

I'm saving as much as I can. The end is nigh.
> it stands to reason that the same mechanism that provides medium-term immunity is the mechanism responsible for recovery.

New tests for neutralizing antibodies like proposed by some groups[1] will make sure the antibodies not only are there, but that they actually work.

[1] https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-24574/v1
I know this isn’t your main point, and I might just be remembering British wartime propaganda (my parents told me several things that later turned out to have been that), but…

Wasn’t the Nazi nuclear program severely delayed by their race-based hatred of Einstein for being Jewish?
It's amazing how many comments here are as optimistic about climate change as they were about coronavirus in early February.

Climate change and the pandemic are very similar processes. The are both extreme events that are easy to predict existentially (yes both will happen) but hard to specify exactly when they will unfold. They are both theoretically preventable, but require initial economic damage very early on to do so. Both cause major systemic economic damage, with long lasting consequences.

But pandemic is milder in every imaginable way. Pandemic has more immediate evidence that it is happening, it can be dealt with in a much shorter time span (months rather than years or decades), the total economic damage is far less, and the time to recovery from the pandemic is less (it might take years but climate change will take much longer to adapt to).

So in every major way pandemic is a toy exercise for how to handle climate change and we are failing that test spectacularly and still the response to climate changes is largely "don't worry, we'll figure it out, we have time and solutions..."

As the economic damage from this starts to really unfold remember that this is the change in our way of life to get 8% So imagine the change in life style and economic damage required to get to 75%, and then keep in mind that that is still preferable to the economic damage we will likely see from a +2 C global warming.

I suspect climate change discussions will die down after the pandemic because it's to much to really face the reality of what it will mean. People want to return to normal, spend money and co2 again.
That's exactly ad-homimem. Instead of arguing against his points directly, they are dismissed because of who thre author is...

Whether the author is a health official who has authority to do something is irrelevant to the substance of their opinion.
Why though? 13 year-olds can learn CSS/HTML for their neopets, I get it's scary but this stuff isn't poison.
>So, unless users make a constant, conscious effort to stay on a federated network, outside the luring walled gardens, the walled gardens win. And most people don't even think about all the privacy implications and stuff, they just want to share cat photos with friends.

What's the conscious effort to stay on email? It seems like most people use email because everybody else uses email, not because it's federated.
All this aside, maybe it's not a good idea after all. What makes you think your version is going to work any better than the original?
> I would still prefer to have to trust just one authority for my platform than a multitude of random developers.

These are not the only two options. What about multiple authorities, but not random individual developers? That's basically how it works with e.g. game stores on PC (though Steam is certainly the largest), or package repositories on Linux.

Like you, I like being able to trust an authority to vet the software I install rather than having to judge the trustworthiness of each individual developer, but I'm not a fan of there only being one authority by design (as it is on e.g. iOS). It introduces a single point of failure and gives that authority full control over all software on that platform - for better or worse. Many package managers specifically deal with the issue of consolidating updates to a single system while not relying on a single authority.
They'll find some success, the same way that visual editors for desktop applications, and visual editors for web pages, found some success. In the end, these tools all require you to drop the facade once you want to do something too advanced.

I personally don't see how these companies can be worth much. Just as with visual web editors, they started out charging a lot but over time the price floored out to zero. Now there are dozens of websites that give away their "no code" editors, with the hope that you'll pay them to host your site forever.
Is there an easy way to remove the hot mirror filter and make it a full spectrum camera ? Adding a high pass filter could even make it a purely IR camera.
Yes, it's one of the more reputable economics journals. Modern economics seeks to answer research questions (e.g. impact of research collaboration and global knowledge diffusion) using quasi-experimental settings (e.g. the unexpected fallout of the Luzin affair to mathematics research). Would be surprised to find this in a math journal if anything!
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This is the encouraged outcome of some marketing funnels. There are certainly many of us smarter/wiser than this. I'm sorry you haven't met and established relationships with enough of us yet.

You're not wrong about the compulsive over working of the population. It's rarely optional in the tech industry (and many others but I haven't experienced those, only heard tale) if you want to participate. This ignores a lot of research about maximizing total output but it often serves the emotional needs of some people for status.

Assuming you're not a fool with your money, what you do with it is turn around and help make the world around yourself even better. If you're smart/wise you find efficient ways to do this. Consider looking into efficient altruism, or even better, doing that but also creating a system (i.e business/organization/et cetera) that lifts more people into better circumstances and gives them some slack and support to be more efficient and wise.
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I don't know about Spain, but in both Italy and France the regions most affected are the northern overcast places. The impact around the Med is much smaller, despite much much more retirees
No idea, it was years ago. JVM-s were extremely buggy. We were quite n00bs at that time also so we didn't dig into the depths of it, we had to fix production issue that we had already spent a lot of time on. We found the bug by just narrowing down a broken case further and further. Finally we wrote a code that just tried a range of dates one by one over several years to find out the pattern. Unfortunately it wasn't possible upgrade the JVM as it was embedded into Lotus Notes, so we wrote our own date implementation (yay!) that satisfied our needs. It was fixed on later Notes version, but our sh*tty date implementation lived much much longer...
you're joking right?

if I was shadowbanned you wouldn't have replied, as my comment would be hidden...

edit your edit does not make sense. what do you mean "vouch"? sounds like you're making stuff up
Ah you are on Linux! I am using Windows. That'll explain it!
Well this is just the nature of operating a business at scale. Even little corner shops don't recognise customers on an individual basis.

> It treats you as a resource to be exploited with little to no consideration to your well-being

There are companies which I feel loyal to (Valve/Steam, for example) because they treat their customers well. I believe they deserve my money because they're a good company so I will give them the benefit of the doubt if they do something wrong.

Ultimately we want to reward good behaviour in the market, no?
Good thing that this very article announces a gradual reopening started now, then.
Thank you. This is exactly what none of the cryptocurrency people seem to understand:

> Trust cannot be formally defined. Trust is an ever-changing subjective belief done in an unknown world.

We know how to deal with trust for eons. They solve the wrong problem, if there is any.
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Being pedantic, those box drawing characters are neither ASCII nor ANSI. They are part of the original IBM PC character sets. Windows refers to them as the OEM character sets.
> I think the writers know these stories get traction so they just keep doing a variation on the same theme. They're not really in it to explain anything. They just want the clicks and the engagement numbers to go up.

You are painfully uninformed as to how journalism works. Yes, there are publications -- Buzzfeed, Vice, etc. -- that feed on clickbait, but many are still doing important work. The Facebook story might look hark on the "same theme" but the fact a polarizing figure like MZ still fully controls a problematic product is still worth reporting on. It's about accountability.
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My guess is that when CubeWorld went viral it sucked up all of the time of the sole developer.
Hey Kamal, good to see you here. I'm sorry to hijack this thread, but I'm hoping someone from DO could provide an official response to this often-cited post on HN regarding security issues on your K8S offering: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22490390

Is there a chance you could poke someone into looking into this?