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I think at least part of the hiring problem for the next employer has to do with the amount of effort involved to get the whole story. I’ve been with two organizations that hired a “radioactive” whistleblower with two very different conclusions.

In the first case the President put in quite a lot of effort and determined the person probably acted ethically before extending the offer. The individual (later proven correct) was exceedingly grateful and has since been incredibly loyal to the organization. He absolutely could have been recruited away a thousand times since but he hasn’t left because they gave him a chance when no one else would. His hiring has been, without a doubt, an excellent investment.

The second case was more or less the complete opposite. The CEO hired a friend who had been a “whistleblower”. His claims against his prior employer weren’t entirely without merit but it later became clear they were... tenuous. And it turned out he was a giant headache. He was difficult to work with, made mountains out of molehills, and didn’t last long at the company. The company lost quite a bit of money getting rid of him, the CEO lost a lot of respect internally, and he lost a friend. I think it’s unlikely the CEO would ever consider hiring a whistleblower again.

I don’t think companies or hiring managers see a whistleblower and are immediately turned off by the prospect of hiring someone with morals. It’s more that there are two sides to every story and they often don’t think it’s worth the effort to get the information necessary to make the decision: is this person a problem-solver or a problem-starter? If there’s another candidate with 90% of the qualifications that doesn’t require similar vetting it’s just easier and less risky to hire that person instead.

That being said, I’ve seen first hand that if you’re willing to do a little due diligence a recent whistleblower can be a really fantastic hire.
I'm not talking about 'science' which is sho shaky as to be blown over by some crackpots.

The science for 'we are not on a flat earth' is here. We still have YouTube Channels saying otherwise without being able to prove it at all. And they do create issues in our society.
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Getting pedantic here. Folks can 'see' race and not be racist. The Census taker for instance. Or the affirmative-action recruiter.

To be meaningful, conventional racism has to include damage. Its an old debate technique for racists to complain that affirmative action is 'reverse racism'. Because, you see, it sees race and takes action.
Wegmans is another good example. Decent company, happy workers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wegmans
I literally can't get past the first level and I have no idea why.
Seems like the trillions bailout money ought to be spent on hardening these systems to prevent a solar flares or EMP type of events.
Tech Giants Shrug Off Covid-19 Crisis in Q1
> "People love to conclude that something wasn't done because they are stupid, or possibly lazy.

This happens about 95% of the time when you don't know a certain person/team."

I used to do plant floor support in a manufacturing plant. Over the radio, people treated me like an idiot. When I walked out to the plant floor they treated me like a genius.
It's mostly used because the people who hold the purse strings in large organisations don't have a clue about databases, but the salesmen for Oracle wear fancy suits, take them out for expensive dinners and treat them like chums so they get the deal.
I would expect that an ELisp interpreter written in Common Lisp would likely be slower than the existing ELisp interpreter written in C.

As for compilation to Common Lisp, I don't know how feasible it would be. Apparently they tried something similar with Guile and it ran into problems.
Bluetooth and Sound. Take a look at the XPS forums, there's more than a dozen posts on each topic. Dell engineers haven't pushed a fix in over a month after delivering faulty BIOS drivers.
Everybody is talking about hardware support. What about software? Will they send a technician out to show you how to attach a document to an email?
Assuming Tim is in Canada he's probably not eligible for Employment Insurance too.
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There are tons of 3d scanners, including ones that can live on your phone (I think Autodesk made one), up to professional grade ones with a turntable and cameras. They spit out an STL that can be imported into Blender and used for whatever purpose you like.

I think practically this sort of thing is not that useful -- it's easier to iterate on 3d models in a 3d editor (especially since for animation purposes you need to have a parameterized model) rather than trying to get something from a real object.
Ok so if I understand you correctly... if I copy something people haven't heard of I'm an innovator and everyone that follows is a fraud.
For a few hours this morning, Gmail also had difficulty retrieving mail from other Gmail accounts via POP3.
Interesting - hadn't considered that idea. I associate vegan diets with the desire for a more optimal diet (thus healthier). The point was not really one criticizing vegans. I think it is very possible today to be plant based and have a rich and health diet. What I was pointing out is that I've noticed a slippery debate tactic where a proponent of one diet will put forth nutrient rich food on their side and "Big Mac" quality food on the opponent's side.
The fatal flaw in your argument is that "cognitive bias enables people to effectively ignore what disrupts their beliefs" applies to the people with the power to censor as well.
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I completely agree, but we, as a society tend to look down more on the low paid people who do this versus the high paid ones.
I do overall agree with you, but Norway has lower than usual number of deaths this year, so not sure what to do with that. I guess if you just compare the deaths to average you are still under reporting because of the stay at home orders it is sort of expected that less people die.
Human nature organizing itself within a legal and economic framework. Don't like the result, fix the frameworks.

A quote I never get tired of using is, "Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand." If you can, be the change.
Because the people in charge are constrained to a narrow goal of bringing returns to shareholders
How to Grow a Pineapple in Your Garden
The article itself acknowledges we made some good decisions at the outset.

I challenge that trying to have a static model would have been worse. Do they need to update more? Absolutely.
> It's not so much the individual being bad that's bad, it's that in industries where profit margin is razor thin, an individual can have an outsized effect on the group.

If a business isn't capable of supporting it's labor at a rate where their employees can maintain their cost of living, then that business has already failed. It means the business subsidizing the cost of goods and services with the quality of life of the employees providing those goods and services. That's not a sustainable economic model, because it means those same workers are effectively excluded from the economy; they're only able to participate with essential goods and services, which harms the markets for anything else by artificially constraining demand. That means economics of scale won't pay off, which increases the effects of overhead on business.
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My bet is that it was always evil, no one noticed because they were distracted by the amazing customer focus and service.

Google may have touted the "do no evil" matra, but looking back, their plan was always to look over your shoulder. Nothing Google did was ever altruistic, and I think Amazon was and is the same way.
I’ll tell you a little secret: when compiling or running multi-minute test suites, or sometimes even just being in a videochat, the fans rev up, and sound like a weak hair dryer, even on the 16” MBP (which is what I currently use).

The thermals on Apple laptops from the last several years don’t seem to be designed to work without frequently revving the fans way up.
But...'cheating' at a game, making that have the force of law, makes game-show hosts into lawmakers. That seems a strong stance. We're not talking a contract, nor a physical exchange of goods and services, nor anything else normally associated with civil cases. We're talking, the accused may have operated outside a set of arbitrary rules made by some civilian for fun.
Can you describe your workflow for this?
The touch bar is really, really awful. I'd definitely pay more to get rid of it.

- It's incredibly sensitive, so a slightly misplaced touch on the number row sometimes results in a wild function key that snaps me out of whatever I'm doing (launches iTunes, goes to Spaces, adjusts brightness).

- It's distracting. It's either a lighted row of fake buttons, or a constantly changing offering of useless app shortcuts. It turns on and off (again, distracting).

- The UX of using it as function keys is in every way worse than a physical button. You can't tell if the click registered by feel. Sometimes it even seems like it reacts to a click but then nothing happens.
> - A much better experience in Java and .NET drivers, including SQL custom data types.

I didn't have any better experience with Oracle drivers in Java. Most of the driver is a soup of hacks exploiting obscure features of both the VM and standard library (both the vm and jdk are "Oracle owned" so I guess I was expecting that), also the source code is not available, so debugging it's a hellish experience.

On the other hand the Postgres JDBC Driver is the most well written and documented driver that I ever saw in Java
But shit cooling
This is just how capitalism works. It's about allocating capital in the most efficient way, and as far as Amazon is concerned workers are a dime a dozen. If workers complain, you can just fire them and hire someone else to do the job. This is especially true right now with the high unemployment rate.

If workers really want to improve their situation they would all need to unionize. It would require a significant portion of the workers to join, or else Amazon can just keep firing and replacing people. While I'm certainly pro-worker and pro-union, I think most of the demonstrations have been a tiny number of workers relative to Amazon's whole workforce.

Keep in mind that in the US there's a negative stigma attached to unionization thanks to many years of propaganda from "business leaders" who (obviously) are opposed to unionization because it eats into their profits.
[spoiler alert] look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v32XHJxljKI&t=17m18s
I tried to return the POS but Dell wont take it back since I was a few days past their 30 day return policy. Let's not forget I had to deal with a minor fallout due to the pandemic, but their "customer service" department doesn't care about personal issues and difficulties customers have had during the last month and only profit and sales.

I'm never buying Dell
I'm not disagreeing people deserve respect. But with automation do we need people in factories? Answer is no.
It's a nice thought. But where would all the unreliable people work then? Or you think they would just become reliable if they would get paid more? That seems unlikely to me. There are unreliable rich people, too. People with gambling addictions or drug habits. More money doesn't automatically cure bad habits.
A Shiny Snack Bag’s Reflections Can Reconstruct the Room Around It
Child comments here are spot on. If you jam all of humanity through an economic blender, you will not come out with what you put in.
In his post, he states...

> It’s evidence of a vein of toxicity running through the company culture.

So clearly he's had other issues and encounters with the toxic work culture there.

It really shouldn't be any surprise that people usually have multiple reasons for quitting their job.
One small example that i've struggled with is logging. It used to be I could reuse my editor knowledge to search and read log files. Now every time I want to look at a log I have to re-read the man pages to figure out the proper incantation.
The art of be polite or something like this
Include Brief Bursts of Exercise to Counter the Effects of Prolonged Sitting
You might even call it a Data Lake and get away with it.
I’ve found that the Touch Bar’s fundamental flaw is that it doesn’t handle unintended touches well (which sadly affects multiple Apple technologies, including my Watch and even the trackpad occasionally), and that is directly related to the fact that it has no raised elements.

Furthermore, one of its main added features — the ability to do gestures that keys can’t do — just isn’t valuable. I haven’t seen a single example of something that was easier to do on the Touch Bar when I have a giant screen and trackpad/mouse already. I don’t need micro-scrubber interfaces or color sliders or Emoji bars, and the volume/brightness sliders are imprecise.

Despite customizing the bar with BetterTouchTool, including “vibrate” feedback, I invariably found I had to remove more and more things from the bar over time. Any functions in the central part of the bar were invariably triggering by accident. It was just too distracting to have things randomly happening when my finger slid onto something that doesn’t feel like an active panel.

Now, therefore, I have a Touch Bar with just a few things: a battery status indicator on the left end (near the thankfully-now-real Esc key), and the brightness/volume/mute on the right (near the wonderful Touch ID). And that’s it. It is literally 70% empty space now. This is ridiculous for something as complex and expense-adding as the Touch Bar. A complete failure of a technology.
There are other factors here though, if they have a nice watch and freshly pressed suit I see them as that they are putting their money to where they see value. A car to them is just a pay to get to a place.
Check out https://www.nocsdegree.com/ made by a friend of mine. You'll see that there are plenty of cases where you don't need formal education as long as you have the drive.

For applying to jobs, consider being creative in your application. Can you speak directly to the hiring manager? Can you make your application stand out somehow?

The best engineers I've hired have usually been ones with the drive and without formal education. Best of luck.
In someways small companies have more potential to be evil, because they often fly "under the radar".

"We shouldn’t fetishize mom and pop operations. They offer lower wages, skimpier benefits, and inferior labor protections."

See: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/01/small-businesses-workers-...
Accountability. When humans turn into numbers for lack of personal interaction it is much easier to increment, decrement and decimate.
You can't set up TOTP without giving Google a phone number?
There are less than 20 Distinguished Engineers in all of Amazon. Today there's one less.
Useful figures, so thanks for providing those. It's been a few months since I last looked into the latest prices. I agree with you that it's still worth it.

However, I feel that without comparing the OS and tight OS integration, this doesn't represent one of the most important aspects of a comparison between the two, when considering a purchase.

I go through this same loop every time I buy a new machine... yes, usually it's "no more Apple for me!" especially when I do the price comparison. So I waver for a couple of weeks whilst I research the latest hardware and Linux distros. But then I end up buying an Apple machine. It's been the same story for me for the last 17 years.

There's plenty of people like me out there that definitely don't want to use Windows, and that want a Unix that gets out of the way. I love Linux, especially on the server, but it's generally too much hassle on a laptop and so I always gravitate back to macos.

If the $600 is an Apple tax for that, then I will gladly continue to pay it. Over the 3 years lifetime of a developer machine (or more!), my time is definitely worth more than $600 compared with constantly fiddling with Linux kernal modules and other hardware support issues. I just want to get some work done without interruptions.

Definitely would love the exact same machine without the TouchBar, though. Perhaps that would shave off $100?
Nope it's completely silent failure, only thing noticeable is I think if I toggle it on and off in the menu a few times it will freeze coming back on. But rebooting fixes it.

But yeah AirDrop wont work in the state so it's likely the same issue because on a long enough uptime the chip crashes without fail.
There's also health effects. There is subconscious anxiety from being observed and from having someone walking behind you. There is stress from trying to listen--or not to listen--to other conversations. There is stress from needing to maintain a facade for management's panopticon. It all takes a toll on cube farm crops.
...and that's why those companies become bastions for people who don't value (and indeed despise) socialist ideals.
click on GUI.

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HN has a form of a Code of Conduct (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), and strong moderation to remove truly bad-faith comments. These two aspects are really important to the level of discourse here.

And while I would say HN is often times civil, I've definitely seen misogynistic or otherwise demeaning comments here.
I know that the rules exist, so I can assign a highly likelihood for there to be a reason for the rules to exist.

Also I have read the one or other thing.
I think I agree. I would word at as academics are used to getting an answer that lasts a long time. Industry is used to changing much more rapidly.

In the current atmosphere of a disease we are learning about as we go, change of model should be the norm.
My comment was pure anecdote from years spent in retail (Best Buy) and co-owning a pizza restaurant. I'll update it if it helps.

A quick google finds a number of stats referencing what I'm talking about, but probably nothing scientific. Here is an example:
https://losspreventionmedia.com/theft-by-employees-more-comm...

Reliable help in "low skill" jobs (although I don't believe they are low skill) can be notoriously hard to find.
Is that different from System Preferences > Keyboard > Touch Bar shows Expanded Control Strip?
Their interests are not aligned with ours. If we had more democracy inside of companies, their interests would be more aligned with ordinary people.
Oh, that's good. I'm stealing this.
Most software in my experience is:
* Poor quality

* Offers no refunds

* Uses planned obsolescence

* Requires terrible EULAs

* Installs intrusive DRM

* Has a bad reputation for spying on you

* Installs Adware, Malware, Bloatware

I learned a lot about buying software when I was a kid in the 90s. There was no way to know if the stuff you were buying would be any good. Then once you found out it was steaming horse poop you couldn't return it. Then when you went to uninstall, it would fail and leave junk on your computer. Also there would be "Extras" installed like AOL, NetZero, and AdWare.
He even alludes to it in his post when he mentions that he generally dislikes the toxic culture at Amazon.
Hey, I appreciate that feedback and it is pretty embarrassing. This account was set to delay:0 and as such can't be edited after post, I'm afraid. The person running this posting every month is actually not a recruiter, but just another engineer who found her USDS job from cruising on hackernews via Ctrl+F. For what it's worth, she's on-call for Medicare & Healthcare.gov and is really tired.
It shouldn't be run as a utility then. The web is open; another video site can be established by anyone. YouTube proves the model can be profitable.

I'm not sure I'd treat YouTube's "monopoly" on internet video the same way as actual utilities have physical monopolies on their industries.
We live in a society where everything is interconnected, so everyone is going to get tangled up in something ethically questionable indirectly no matter what. If everyone is as radioactive as possible, we would have anarchy. As a result, people only selectively exercise their conscience. If AWS were its own company and sold their products to smaller companies with worse working conditions than Amazon but dodge media attention, I'm sure Tim would happily work for them.
"wireless earbuds that don't have a wire even between the earbuds" ... face palm

Wow, Apple has some serious brainwashing in the PR department for you to think that they actually invented true wireless earbuds.
Maybe say something about what your project is about?
So many homemade tweaks to fix glaring issues in expensive, premium products...

Remember the iPhone 4 where you had to hold your phone in a certain way so it wouldn't block the antenna? It's amazing that Apple can pump out products with issues like this year after year and still be a top dog.
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Six months.

https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/calculation-c... (the linked PDF).
I started writing blog posts when I started my comapny last year. The plan was to wrie one per week, then one every two weeks, then one per months. I settled for one everytime I manage to.

Reasons are mostly time and capacity. Time wise, there are so much things to do that writting a blog post worth publishing is not feasible as often as I wished. Also, worthwhile posts take mental effort. Coming up with a topic, defining the exact content, and finally writting it. Also, my blog posts are about my work. So I don't want to spend every minute thinking about work.

That being said, it is a great excersice, in writting, in thinking problems through and in explaining them. And if some readers, of the few I have, take somehing usefaull away from it, even better!
Yes - you stated this better than I did. For me the idea of bread made with "Enriched bleached flour" is a good example of 'deceptive' food where you strip nutrients in one process and re-inject nutrients of questionable value. So bread is a great example of a food which can go from empty calorie food to dense nutrient.
Apart from the huge human misery this technique can avoid, also hope it can avoid the pandemic of avian malaria killing many birds.
If we wait for a model that is good enough, we would still be waiting.

I get your point, but it is notable that even this article acknowledges that we made some good decisions from this model early on.
The fact remains that most educated people are aware of the French approach to higher education and the exacting filter applied for entrance and matriculation.

As an example, in a previous job, I noted that the new French software engineer had come from INRIA and was a graduate of a Grand ecole. The fact that this resource went on to demonstrate well above average work and domain abilities was not a surprise to me.

So note that some of us do pay attention even if it is not mentioned during recruitment.
I have a T480 and it’s the worst laptop I’ve ever owned. Had to send it back once for repairs already. The regular charging port no longer works so I use one of the other USB-C ports, which is now crumbling from the inside. The touchpad moves on its own. And worse, a failed firmware update has corrupted the Intel Management Engine (MeSpiLock failed message every boot) that I refuse to install Windows to fix. Finally, the absurdity of the never-fixed throttling issue on Linux — and Docker if you use Windows — makes it an awful machine for any kind of development. I spent a good chunk of money on this computer and I feel stuck with it. I will stay far away from Thinkpads in the future. Wide berth advised.
Big is winning at the game of capitalism.

Capitalists own capital. And they exploit labour.