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What is the logic of upgrading OS but not updating the software?
I just had an coding interview where the interviewer was guiding me to create a class called “ResponseBuilderVisitorBuilder”

Run away!!! (And I like Java!)
Companies don't see them as top talent on account of being unemployed.
I remember thinking that the internal wiki at anzn was one of it's best workplace features. This was something used by just about every team and rarely needed intervention from internal developers to operate smoothly.

This was prior to the migration though. I can't imagine how much upheaval there was resulting from the migration, language considerations aside. This is probably one moment where tech concerns should have taken a back seat to company stability.
Perhaps. It doesn't really matter though.

But my point was that there are market segments where age literally doesn't matter one bit.

I'm retired from my first career and writing code every day for a second career, well over 40. I've interviewed for five jobs in that time frame and been offered every single one -- and I don't interview for management roles because I hate managing (it's what I did for 20+ years in the Navy).

In my experience it's not about age. There are jobs, one just has to find what fits them.
Kudos! This is the kind of stuff that inspires me.

I am trying to build a couple products to figure out which will work and I want to focus on that for the next couple years. But I suffer a lot from procrastination, shift in focus when it comes to own projects.

I checked your commits, really nice that you kept steady since mid-March. If I can do that for my current project, it would be something useful to share with the world.

Thank you :)
Less of a surface than in the scenario that the home domain is hacked and there is VPN running.
I don’t know enough, to be sure.

How large are global olivine reserves compares to historical and future CO2 emissions? What are the side effects at the required scale?

I’m glad they’re doing the experiments, and I’m sure they consider any question I can come up with (including the above) to be trite to the point of cliché.

From the cost and quantity requirements in their FAQ, this will cost $232.4 billion/year. While that ought to be considered affordable vs. the world economy… well, call me cynical, but I don’t think voters or politicians think like that.

As grid scale PV reportedly costs $0.7/watt (peak) in the USA, that money could also install 332 GW of additional solar every year. As the panels look like they should last 30 years, that gives a steady-state equivalent of 9.96 TW (peak), compared to total (not just electrical) global consumption of double that continually, and I’ll fudge-factor as another x2.5 on top to convert peak solar output to time-averaged solar output to make PV x5 the cost of olivine.

So, economically that looks good with current tech, but may look bad if grid-scale PV goes below $0.14/watt (peak).

But that analysis assumes that fossil fuels are free, and as current solar prices are already cheaper than fossil fuels (0), people will probably switch to PV regardless of olivine and save money while doing so. But olivine is probably still useful for the CO2 sources that are hard to substitute with eco-friendly alternatives.

(0) What’s that Skippy, current oil prices are negative?
We look forward to seeing your version!
Has the network launched? Is the community active?

Haven't heard much of anything tangible since they raised funding.

Unfortunately Ethereum is still the leading layer 0 product for a world super computer.
It’s insane to me that such a full featured graphics editor was just abandoned.
>Despite the fact that FB Messenger is explicitly designed for non-professional use and can do group chats people are still gravitating to Zoom.

Facebook doesn't seem to be secure.

I bet people don't want to have hours of recordings attached to their real name, so creating random account on something like Zoom seems like an great.
This only seems to work against tracking information in parameters. You can put the tracking info into the root URL. For a particularly egregious example of this see the EFAIL attack where entire decrypted messages were being sent back to the attackers in the root URL:

* https://efail.de/

I doubt that HTML emails can ever be made secure in general. You are likely vunerable to a wide range of attacks and leaks if you allow images to load in your email no matter how much you attempt to sanitise things.
The most important rule is to cross your hands behind your back. Try to help giving oral order, not pressing buttons.

I think it´s better to start with Python (The turtle library looks nice, but I have not used it.) or Javascript (Make some interactive pages.). Some small interactive project that he can tweak is always more interesting than an abstract project.

Later he can choose to go to C or Racket.

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Also the languages you are use to is important. If you like C, I recommend using the fake language "C+" that is using the C++ compiler to compile programs in C, but using cout instead of printf and ignoring all the other features of C++.
> - Its awkward because you often have little or nothing to discuss.

This might mean your manager was not empathizing, actively listening, showing concern for you as a person. If they did that, you could spend an hour talking about all sorts of things, because you would enjoy talking to each other. Then you pair it down to the two important things: 1) how you are feeling (as a person/employee/citizen/etc), 2) are there any problems or frustrations you would like to discuss.

> - The person you are speaking to is pretty much powerless should you need something to change

That might be true, might not be true. The manager's job is to fight for you and defend you. Even if they have no power. They should at least be giving you the illusion that there is something still to be done; and if not, helping you understand the bigger picture, minimizing the bad, and emphasizing the good.

> - Its yet another meeting you have to attend

True enough. But if the above is done, it's a meeting you might actually enjoy, if only for an opportunity to vent, or share what you're working on that you enjoy.
All you would have to do is disallow outbound SSH.
No, 1208 per million inhabitants. They lost 41.
Actually, that's not always that silly - if you have a structured campaign that uses ads to send people searching for specific things to the parts of your funnel you have optimized for them you can increase conversions and have a good ROAS even over the same keyword performance organically. It can totally be worth it to do.
1. Sure, maybe you're fabricating or exaggerating this

2. Sure, maybe Amazon interviewers are all consummate professionals with zero character flaws, zero personality disorders, and a consistently applied and unimpeachable conceptualization of "professionalism"

And yet, your story completely comports with my Amazon interview experience and every subsequent experience I've had with an Amazon recruiter. (In ways that are remarkable because they stand out relative to experiences with other companies.)

The signal is clear to me at this point: to Amazon, you're cattle.

Anyway, thanks for posting this.
Not true for me at all. The underlying patterns of basically everything are quite valuable, so I'd say it's closer to 90%.
It wasn't too lax, but it was about two weeks too late.
i learned that you call them and it gets done immediately. submit, wait 24h, call. easy
In Spain it's a extra on top of the salary but buying groceries with them is verbotten. You can use them to buy drinks at bars though.

Missing the time when I could eat at restaurants guilt-free almost every day at lunchtime.
NYC was famously late to the lockdown party. But even absent that, the lifestyle of the average New Yorker is very different from pretty much every other American. Way more opportunities for infection just going about your day-to-day life. E.g., just going to the store/office involves passing by hundreds of people as you walk to the subway, wait on a crowded platform, sit on a crowded train, etc.
You don’t know that he cheated on her. Bezos’s statements say that they were already separated. Please don’t malign either’s reputation in a public forum.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/09/business/jeff-bezos-wife-...
I just find that more disappointing because the copyright holder is positioned to be able to open-source or public-domain-dedicate the material but they don't for various reasons and it rots on a backup drive somewhere or gets lost, and now unnecessary duplication of effort must occur to recreate it.

Often it seems rather paradoxical in nature because the main reason they don't open-source it is that they're waiting for a time in the future when the demand rises and it will be worth something again, and yet the increased demand only happens because of the efforts of reverse engineers keeping the community alive. It's almost always impossible for the reverse engineers to legally get paid for this work too. The only hopes for that is either for the copyright holders to raise enough money and decide to hire them, or to do an anonymous patreon and hope it doesn't attract the wrong kind of attention.
I got a remote coding job at an outfit advertising for "young developers". I just severely abbreviated my resume and didn't mention my age until well after I was hired. (The benefits paperwork went through a third party.) It's now years later and they still haven't seen my grey beard, which doesn't matter any more.

And I really like working remotely. If I lose this job for whatever reason that's Plan A, not the backup.
Talk to a lawyer. Trademarks do not have to be registered, at least not in the USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_trademark_law:

”Common law trademark rights are acquired automatically when a business uses a name or logo in commerce, and are enforceable in state courts. Marks registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office are given a higher degree of protection in federal courts than unregistered marks“
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>I am not saying we won't need more energy ever again, but long-term we can find solutions for that, and short-term (as a stopgap solution) we already know that nuclear power can deliver that power without the global warming.

If you increase supply of energy via nuclear, it will decrease price of fossil fuel energy, and there’s a few billion people ready to go on vacations to Maldives/Tahiti/etc and experience what it’s like to live in detached single family homes with their own personal SUVs.

And there’s no way nuclear power can be developed in a quick enough timeframe, there’s not enough people with expertise or materials.

We need to curtail consumption of fossil fuels yesterday, which means heavily tax it, which means less traveling, less purchasing of plastics, fewer cars, and these are all the opposite for how prosperity is measured today.
I think part of it is that they were enthusiastic for blockchain as a backdoor into the liminal space between crowdfunding and VCs. They even reconfigured themselves legally in anticipation of this shift.

I think if cryptos had worked out as they hoped, they would have been the next wave of Ventures, but without any pesky accredited investors limits, which is probably great if you're a16z—lots more opportunity to pump valuations and exit early if the things are looking bad from your board seat.

So I’ve always viewed their enthusiasm for crypto as both more genuine and more cynical than they get credit for: genuine in that they really did expect this to become the new mechanism for venture investing, cynical in that it represented the perfect opportunity to introduce more bag holders to the game.
In 50 years the world will be a Mad Max dystopia.
Indeed, upon reread I think I responded to what I thought you said, not what you actually said.

Anecdotally, "not invented here" is consistently the most egregious source of unneeded complexity I've seen in my career.
Google internally is well aware of this, and in fact one internal tool most engineers use actually has an expiry a few hours short of 24h simply to prevent exactly this issue.
Both measurements matter for different reasons. Absolute is how you model impact, per capita is how policies are applied.
How do you come to the conclusion of IFR likely <.5%? I’ve seen it consistently reported as 0.5-1.5%.
That is nuts, that power should be routable to somewhere else on the grid. Hell even heating a greenhouse.
They’re also a really good opportunity to focus on career questions — where do you want to end up, what kind of projects will be best for getting you there, etc.
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Both the parents have, at least! My dad and I did a 35mi bike ride last weekend :)
Unfortunately in all parts of life confidence sells. If he gets an interview and gives off the signal that he will take anything, odds are they will pass figuring there is a reason he will do so. Same concept unfortunately goes for looks a lot of the time. If you walk into an interview not well put together its going to work against you. This can be mitigated by youth but when you get older you no longer have this luxury. I'm early 40's and I make sure that a couple months before I start thinking about changing jobs I up my workouts, change my diet etc to appear in shape and more energetic. It has zero reflection of my true abilities but people are judged by their looks and unfortunately older people are double so.
Heh, when I learned to drive in the USA I got a Honda Fit (I'm 6'4"). The plan was to drive it for a year and switch to a car more appropriate for a high-flying' techie, like a BMW X5.

I found out after test driving BMWs and Audis I don't see much difference between those cars and the Fit other than some bogus identity around it. It's just driving. I've taken many 6-12 hour long non-stop trips in the Fit (e.g. SF to Seattle where I only left the car once to pump gas, the 2nd time I had to get gas was in Oregon; many trips to Eastern Sierras from SF, etc.) and I think it's fine.
Becuase top talent usually don't get desperate. It's a bad way to judge someone, of course, but there aren't many good ways, and when hiring, you want to play it safe: not hiring a good candidate is way better than hiring someone who turns out to be bad. So, if you notice something that looks like it might have been a red flag, you take notice.
Is anyone else having trouble reading this writing? I've gone through it multiple times but I really cannot extract any point being made other than eager aside references.

The title is not fitting at all for the content.
> "Prevent Impairment"

So, is that a double negative and this would mean it improves fat metabolism?
Not if you're assessing comments like "it just works".

Zoom making their software badly on Linux is 100% in line with the company. They aren't aiming for good design, they are aiming for the nontechnical user using out of the box windows or MacOS.
UK insurers and mortgage companies don't like homes of non-traditional construction because they've tended to develop expensive and unpredictable problems a few decades down the line, and they dislike both uncertainty and things that cost them lots of money for obvious reasons.
No, that's not what the White House statement says.

> After this article was published, a spokesperson for Pence, Katie Miller, said in a statement that "The White House Coronavirus Task Force was never informed of this contract and was not involved in it at all."

Contract, not contact. They deny knowing about or being part of the contract. Nowhere do they deny recommending the vendor.
Why don't you use another name to avoid confusion?
Mind expanding on that a bit? The conclusion seems counterintuitive.
When I worked at FB, we had to sign paperwork to convert our options to common shares and that we were also signing to acknowledge Mark gets preferred stock. Our votes per share was set to one. Preferred shares were set to two (or maybe it was four) votes per share. Essentially he stacked in his favor this way. That’s how we all saw it when we got the paperwork.
> 1) The economic costs of ending the lock-down may be astronomical. This is especially true with what we learn about COVID19 and lung damage (or potentially other organ damage). If even a small fraction of the population is on long-term disability, the costs go up super-quickly.

I have a feeling a lot of people advocating ending the lockdown are doing so on the basis that only old and infirm people die, as if the other option is either an asymptomatic infection or a quick recovery from something flu-like.

But I’ve witnessed some very serious infections, so this colors my perception and pushes me toward continuing lockdowns. To your point, the disease can be debilitating foR relatively young, healthy people. Have you ever gotten the flu and then had to re-learn how to swallow after spending a month in the hospital?

Yes corona is mostly deadly to older people, but even for those who do not die there are negative health outcomes which impact their ability to work and take care of themselves. What is the economic impact of that? Why is it not factored into the cost/benefit analysis of opening up?
I also had this sentiment, but I feel like VSCode as of late has pretty much proved this wrong. There's no discernable difference in responsiveness to me between it and any other native IDE I've used. And it's a pretty complex example.
Is China Taking the Lead in AI?
Point is more that we need to do something about China, no matter the "per capita" distraction:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2018/07/01/china-emits-...
> And what I have found is that most – say, 90%, of what I learn at one job is completely useless for the next one.

Then the problem isn't with what's being learned. The problem is that the author lacks a framework for generalizing and internalizing the lessons learned.

Letting 90% of lessons learned on the job go to waste later in life is going to lead to a very difficult career path.

Later...

> Compounding is a pretty important concept that shows up in compound interest, in Moore’s Law, all over the place. It’s about virtuous cycles. And so in the limited flexible time that I have, I think the rule of thumb is to focus on things that could trigger a virtuous cycle.

In other words, focus on activities that can capture more value from the 90% of wasted lessons.

Writing, both publicly and privately, is an excellent way to do that. It seems the author may have an inkling but isn't saying it. Given there are only two posts on the blog, this could be the author's attempt to test the idea.
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Ask HN: Searching for a new Linux development laptop. Suggestions?
Mandatory requirements:

* Linux friendly;
* Intel CPU, with embedded Intel graphics;
* Ethernet port;
* SATA 2.5inch support;
* USB 3.0 (or better) Type-A port;

Optional requirements:

* budget friendly; (under 1500 EUR)
* good cooling;
* upgradeable RAM;
* HDMI port;

Thanks for the suggestions!
I'm looking at data in the JHU dashboard. I see the first cases in the Daily Cases chart in late February for Germany, and around March 17 for Turkey. It looks like an about three-week time lag.
Per capita does not work if you got economic inequality. The portion of the population that are rich should not have a blanket license to burn tires all day long just because the same country also have a large part of population that is so poor that they can't afford to buy tires.

Per capita also in theory create perverse incentives. A rich country with high pollution per capita could anex a poor country and magically reduce their per capita pollution. Having a bunch of people under the same rule, but separated and segregated, should not impact the responsibility of reducing carbon emission.

If can't use absolute numbers since those benefits developed countries, and we can't use per capita since those benefits countries with large economic inequality, we will just have to find a third way to measure it.
Would you want to date someone who seemed desperate to get into a relationship? Who seemed like they were having trouble getting a relationship at all, let alone a good healthy one? Same principle.
> Seems ripe for abuse and no-questions-asked compliance lest they be sued.

That is exactly what the DMCA is and Google does abide by that. This case is about Google's compliance with the law, not whether the law is fair.
I love a good mystery!
I'm somewhat perturbed that the entirety of the "DevOps" section is advice to get an SRE on your team because an SRE's job is to "be online after hours".

That's an incredibly dismissive and reductive perspective on the expertise and insight that an SRE (or any ops staff)
could bring to a project, and it sounds like this person--or maybe their entire team--is doing a really bad job of owning their own junk.

I'll make a note to be extra wary of looking into any SRE jobs at Amazon if this is how they treat those positions.
Learn to read, fuck face. IPO was in 2019.
Usually, someone saw a cool feature they wanted and everything moved to that. So often the main purpose of storing information gets lost to flashy new graphics.
it’s too bad the damages are too small to incentivise change of any kind for google
Dark Lang is doing the same, we almost did, but are using Cuelang for our take on this now
Rules of thumb for a 1x developer: Stop with the 1x/10x bullshit and quit basing your self-worth on your ability to provide for an employer.

Fuck sake.
That's a good point. The OP didn't specify a BMI, just obesity.

Still an enormous number of people but far lower than 40ish percent.
If Russia were mostly undeveloped from the Urals to the Bering Sea, I would indeed be fine with them burning tires in Moscow all day.

If Russia started consciously farming carbon sinks across Siberia, they could burn tires in St. Petersburg, too.

Japan and Holland could farm algae and plankton in their oceanic EEZ, I suppose.
Confidence and desperation hardly ever align. Confident people who plan don't get desperate. Desperate people don't make good decisions. People who let themselves reach levels of desperation are either extremely unlucky (unlikely, but not someone you want on your team regardless) or chronically make bad decisions. At the worst, they're a person who chronically makes bad decisions and thinks they're unlucky.

Standard: not saying it's fair or endorsing this, explaining how people think and feel about it.
> Capital appreciation resulting from token buybacks is not taxed.

Why would we expect the tax code to treat this any differently from share buybacks in the long run?

I'm having trouble understanding why the rest of the argument would apply to crypto shares but not NYSE shares. I don't agree with the statement that our current system incentivizes low consumption; the less you consume the more capital you have to invest or consume in the future.