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But it doesn't need to be Penang

It can be Canada. It can be Mexico or South America.

It can be Eastern Europe.

Yes, it will be more expensive (but maybe not overall), and there will be fewer "yes-men" and less bottom-kissing but more actual work done and maybe better communications since time zones overlap.
In practice, meaning, let's let him kill a few of them before we jump to conclusions?
Work (ecommerce): IE 11 + Safari/Firefox/Chrome going back quite a few versions. IE 11 still brings in a non-trivial amount of revenue.

Personal side projects: Modern Safari/Firefox/Chrome. Best effort support for Legacy Edge and older browsers.
Working from home for the past 3 months taught me that a lot of my constant tiredness and apathy came from the constant noise you get in an open office.

Some people can't handle being productive in a extremely loud, and extremely bright environment. It doesn't matter how much I destroyed my hearing by putting loud music over noise-cancelling headphones, I always felt tired after ~2 hours of work.

Open offices seem to start in companies with 10 people, and eventually turn out in floors with hundred of other workers screaming loudly so they can be heard over the existing noise. Ideally, an open office should have noise detectors over the office to remind people to keep their noise down.

As a positive, if I were 20 years older I'd probably have started working in cubicles, which have all the negatives of an open office but without any natural sunlight.
That might not be an issue on the countryside (everything outside Vienna ;), but it is definitely very impolite to address another adult person with "du" instead of "Sie" if they have not offered you to call them with the informal pronoun. However, that might be different with younger people.
You're assuming that people want to program applications in "platform languages" like Objective-C or Swift or Java or Kotlin. That's generally not true. They want to use their language of choice.

That's why C interfaces are the reasonable choice, you can interface with them conveniently from pretty much any language and if you want a more idiomatic "pointless layer of indirection", you can build it.
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If you're in/near Poland then my former company has a buttload of old Mac Minis that might be useful for you. DM me if interested.
Reminds me of what my friend once told me during my university years - that yes, I do have the ability to get out of tough places with class assignments by inventing a barrage of completely sensible-sounding and technically true chaff like this, and that this ability is making me lazy; that I start to rely on my ability to talk my way into an A instead of putting more work into polishing the project. That remark touched me deeply. I realized that yes, I've been considering this to be a very fun game (the self-imposed restriction that I have to stay truthful was what made it challenging, in a fun way). Ever since I've put an effort into avoiding doing this - it's too easy, and you don't learn as much as you can when actually doing the work to the best of your abilities.
At the extreme electricity works just fine without the electrons. Take two hydrogen nucleus without any electrons (aka proton H+). Throw them around and see where they interact and land.

They experience electrostatic repulsion, no electron cloud required.

Local classical Maxwell is enough to explain electricity no need for QM.

I think I get what you are trying to do : "making the Light field implicit".
It's a tempting thing to do because when things are coupled we are kind of thinking : is it the electric field which deformed the electron cloud or is it the electron cloud which generated the field.

But this picture is dangerously misleading. It makes you assume strange electron cloud which interact non locally in complicated way (strange arms...). By giving special properties to the electron it doesn't respect the symmetry with respect to charge. Maxwell works just fine for protons. It also completely obscure the facts that we can have external E and B field ; in particular it makes you think that photons need matter to exist which isn't the case.

It is much more clear and general to make light fields and matter fields explicit.
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While I can't vouch for the financial incentive regarding the VC funding. From a pure technical perspective, wouldn't it be better to have a blockchain style of recording keeping instead of having the record to be in one central location?
I find the worst interrupters are not co-workers but impatient, micromanaging managers. Yup, the Dilbertian PHB's -- there just are too many of them out in the wild.
Laws, constitutions, the legal system, and the ballot box.

Mature democracies should have the ability to carefully and responsibly limit some rights in times of great crisis, such as wars and pandemics.
Remember Monoprix trolling the Amazon Go ad?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNoa-9TBH30
> Obviously we don't "need" any astronomers at all (or most scientists for that matter)

Remember the dinosaurs only died because they didn't have rockets, telescopes and nukes.
Why don't they put their data dumps in an SQLite database and indexed for full-text-search https://sqlite.org/fts5.html

Then put the file in a torrent. Let the users seed it.

Users can use sqltorrent (https://github.com/bittorrent/sqltorrent) to query the db without downloading the entire torrent - essentially it knows to download only the pieces of the torrent to satisfy the query.

Every time a new dump is published by internet archive, the peers can change to the new torrent and reuse the pieces they already have - since SQLite is indexed in an optimal way to reduce file changes (and hence piece changes) when the data is updated.

I talk a bit about it here: https://medium.com/@lmatteis/torrentnet-bd4f6dab15e4

Would save Internet Archive lots of bandwidth and hassle
The idea that Elon Musk would stop producing electric cars or solar panels in the event that he was made to stop questionable management tactics within his companies is an odd one. I realise that the U.S' regulatory appetite isn't what it used to be, so he'll probably keep getting away with this kind of thing, but you shouldn't have to accept his or any other leader's bad behaviour in exchange for the goods his company provides.
I hate explaining good jokes but I guess the topic is worthy. The idea is to repeat everything people say (or write) in your own words. That way others can polish their words all day long without changing the facts. I often wish we all had a natural gift for this kind of objectivity. I mean, if someone describes something, wouldn't you want it to describe the thing the way it is?

(Its different if someone is genuinely passionate about a topic. Then I want to wear the pink glasses and get a set of my own.)
AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Kendra
Spark is sort of dead though. Dask looks to be the way of the future. In part because doesn't take a zillion parameters to tune and consume a bucket of resources just for overheads. Good luck.
Why? Go get a remote job and triple the salary, to start with. Of course don't mention your current one. Seriously, go scan HN Who Is Hiring thread for remote jobs - for US or Swiss companies, don't bill below six-figure. For German companies, aim high five-figure. Do it now.
Because it makes it too easy people to ask questions that they could have answered on their own if they'd has to stand up from their desk, walk down the hall to my office, knock on the door and obviously disrupt whatever I'm doing.

In an open office all they have to do is vaguely wave their hand in the corner of my vision with "hey just a quick question" that inevitably turns into a 15 minute product revision meeting.
Given how art is as much about intentions as it is about the reaction of the observer, a compelling enough BS might take a new life as a honest reflection on art. Arguably, that's what most art criticism is today.
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I don't think it was this way in 1820, but I agree with your point.

Even though I also use Linear Algebra mostly computationally today, the origin of it is in the geometry and I think this connection should come first. Also, "number crunching" is a boring way to learn things.

Though, "matrix way" can be good for engineers.
I'm not sure how you can type this out with a straight face. A store that sells medicine is obviously significantly more essential than a factory for luxury cars - especially considering that most people who can afford them also most likely can just work from home.
Actually Blocknative is a project that allows you to plug-n-plug multiple authentication projects like @metamask_io, @TorusLabs, @authereum, @dapper_labs, @coinbase, @TrustWalletApp, @Trezor, @Ledger, @fortmatic, @portis_io, @Squarelink_Inc, @WalletConnect, @opera, @ethstatus, @unilogin, @imTokenOfficial.

So, as AvionDB is compatible with Blocknative's Onboard.js, it can work with 16 Auth projects.

P.S. the above-mentioned handles are from twitter
> would fall under scientific education (which I mentioned), not practical education

The idea that scientific education is not practical is incorrect. For example, scientists contributed massively to the victory of WW2?

> Knowing what general relativity is or how to discern gold from pyrite has nothing to do with the economics of getting a good job

I used pyrite as a metaphor, it's colloquially known as fool's gold. Less delicately, learning how to distinguish shit from shinola. This is quite a valuable skill.

As for general relativity, the background needed to understand what it even is means your mind is trained, and this training is highly marketable and useful. Then being able to marvel at it is a wonderful thing, indeed.
> I'd like team size cubicles.

For a while we had 1st and 2nd line support on the other side of the aisle from us on a floor that had ~ 75 people working there, it was so hard to concentrate.

My boss was trying to get a room built for our team: 4 developers, 2 Analysts and 2 testers alas it never happened. Something about collaboration, despite the fact that our team was working an entirely new product line using a new technology (for the company).
All of the noise about Zoom sounds like a witch-hunt.

But hopefully, Zoom can improve their security and privacy features, to make their product even better.

I think people forget just how terrible video conferencing was, before Zoom came around, and got installed in corporate meeting rooms worldwide.

Let me remind you again: It was terrible!

Zoom actually brought a breath of fresh air to the landscape. The video was relatively snappy, and the audio was usually always spot on.

It made you feel almost as if you were living in Star Trek land, with ubiquitous video calls everywhere.

And all the hubbub about Facebook, Google, and Microsoft offering free videoconferencing on their chat tools, just means that this wasn’t their core competency. They had other things to work on. Bigger fish to fry. Whereas Zoom, just focused on one thing, and one thing only, videoconferencing.
When all we want is for them to put the Parkside cordless jigsaw on sale.
>> The Cloud idea very likely was acquired together with a former SAP cloud sales VP. Here is the difference: Core Schwarz DNA is selling packed soup to end customers at a crazy scale, without even intervening in the whole process. Core DNA SAP is a large scale enterprise sales. Go read the Stratechery posting about why Google failed with GCP to understand why Schwarz should not do this.

This is exactly what I have guessed. Many people think that replicating AWS is just the question of money. It is not. Most of the great datacenter people are hired by AWS, MS and Google. These are the guys who can think of cost efficient reliable solutions, quite often inventing new things in the process that the outside world has no idea. I was watching countless videos while working for Amazon about the data center tech. Mind blown, every single time. I seriously doubt that the Schwarz group will be able to attract the talent to replicate this. Many of the AWS guys are life timers, do not care about money. What is a more likely scenario that they will burn through a few billion EUR before realizing that they know nothing about cloud computing and cut their losses.

It is going to be interesting to watch though.
My preference is to go to the pub to brainstorm over burgers and beer. I did work for a small biz where the owner would take us all out on Friday for that purpose. Most productive place I ever worked at. Eventually got bought out by a much bigger biz and it all went south.
This is just about identical to my experience in early March. No (or at least no observed) fever, a distinctive but not awful sore throat, and intense fatigue. Urgent care clinic did not test for the virus, or even for the flu.

I tested positive for antibodies last week.
If enough people did this, it would provide more pressure for websites not to just nuke their old URL schemes every time they switch from wordpress to Drupal...
Are you aware that hacking is in most parts social engineering? Are you looking for the best hacker or social engineer? Are you aware of the differences between a hacker, a cracker and a script kiddie? What about participants in a hackathon - do you consider them hackers as well? I mean, the event has "hacking" in its name, right?
What are the good and bad to build a website with Sheet2Site?
... What is the 10-15 year period you're referring to where online banking in Australia meant "you can see transactions but you can't transfer money"?

By most people's standard the web has only existed since the early 90s' - Mosaic came out in 1993.

I was using online banking for transfers with CommBank and Westpac around the year 2000, IIRC, and I've never been in a situation where I could view but not make transfers using an Australian bank.
Is a shiny polished product worth risking your companies valuable IP, given Zoom has lied about using end-to-end encryption and has routed American communications through China in the past?

This is straight out of the CCP's playbook, and Zoom is far from being outside of the CCP's influence.
Hardly. Apple has a strange definition of what 'cross-platform' means and still sucks at making their technologies available on non-Apple platforms and AstroPad realised this so the answer is obvious [0]

[0] https://astropad.com/windows-faq/
> Yes, in German it’s a big deal, roughly the same as saying “Hey dude” instead of “Good morning Mr Smith”.

It's been changing for decades across a lot of languages. I grew up in Norway where these forms were dying out as I was a child (70's/80's) and mostly used to older people, to the point where they're now mostly used sarcastically to imply someone is a pompous ass or to very old people or in very formal situations. But go back another decade or two and it was common.

When I moved to the UK in 2000, even that was a weird shift up for me in formality (being called "sir" in shops, and having people actually use "mister" in front of my last name) compared to Norway.

But by the 90's my French and German teacher had both insisted we learn to use the formal forms but also both told stories about how that would already then sometimes make you seem old and stuffy, and to listen for what others said and if in doubt ask and to roughly assume we could get away with the informal form with our own age group and younger but default to the formal forms for older people just in case.

My own experience has been that most people I've met in Germany on business trips mostly have thought I've been more formal than necessary at first and told me I can use "du", because I've erred on the side of caution, but it's also varied a lot by location and age group and situation. Since I use my German relatively I'd rather start out too formal than misjudge the situation the other direction.
Perhaps a message queue as well.
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Never really had 'collaborative effort and serendipitous & spontaneous conversations with colleagues that solve problems out of the blue'.

Most of the time, i have someone next to me or close to me, who is on phone with someone else.

I had a 4 people office once and it was great. Close the door, noise is outside.
Chinese Scientist Jailed for Genetically Modifying Embryos
Where in the UK are you based?

Don't get disheartened when you read these big salaries online. The average reader isn't bothering to post theirs.

The UK is actually pretty good when it comes to IT salaries. Go to France, for example, and they're much lower. The attitude to devs is quite poor in a lot of places, treating us like we're one rung above car mechanics. We also have a good contract market in the UK; in many other EU countries (even Australia) contractors make peanuts in comparison.

Outsourcing and the low barrier-to-entry have all dampened IT salaries. Immigration has also played a part in the UK over the last 15 years; a lot of devs from Eastern Europe have gone where the money is - i.e. here. I know it's a contentious issue here but I say that with no malice. I'd do it too if I was them, and a lot of them are talented devs, but there's no point pretending it hasn't had an impact.
It's still under the CCP's purview and they still aren't using E2EE. Therefore you should only use this product if you're fine with shipping your company's IP to China for them to copy, given their systematic efforts to infringe on the IP of Western companies via top-down efforts.
Tu vs voi?
And as I said that's a consequence of Bitcoin's decentralization and censorship resistance. I think the positive aspects of those features overshadow the negative.
Firstly it's that you seem available for interruption, either by managers or coworkers equally. Most people don't understand how harmful that is. Managers vs makers schedule explains this.

Secondly, however, is the inability to control my own environment. Some days I'd like it to be dark, some light. Sometimes I'm cold, sometimes I'm hot. Or I want loud music or silence. Etc. You might think these are all minor things and generally they are but if all of them slightly negatively impact you, you might end up being cranky and unproductive the entire day.

Cubicles are slightly worse because they suffer from the exact same issues but are much uglier.
What problem do you think drastically increasing the student body will solve?
Luckily the C-suite get their own C-word for proper etiquette.
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yeah we really are doomed unless drastic change comes to how these kinds of decisions are made and how they are enforced. The American middle-class didn't even want to stay at home for a few weeks to prevent an epidemic that could directly kill them. I highly doubt they will give up their suburban houses with air conditioning and their two luxury cars to move into an apartment in a big city and take public transport for the sake of the climate.
Many things like gauze sponges can be given a few radiopaque threads and an X-ray is taken after the surgery. It’s still no substitute for a good count of materiel.
It's far more than a nickel difference. Any useful private office is about 100 sq ft. In an open office you can do with about 20 sq ft per person. So you cram the workers into bull pens and the managers can have acres of offices with windows and still save money on mid-city rents.
Yeah, math professor here, this drove me crazy.

For example, I remember looking at the linear algebra book my department had used previously. Early on, it introduced the concept of the transpose of a matrix:

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

Superficially, it looks like something good to introduce. It is fodder for easy homework exercises, and there is a satisfyingly long list of formal properties satisfied.

But why? What does the transpose mean? For what sort of problem would you want to compute it?

There are good answers to these questions (see the "transpose of a linear map" section of the Wikipedia article I linked), but they are not easy for a beginner to the subject to appreciate.
Thank you!

Honestly, I was just doing my job. In the end, I think I was providing valuable feedback that lead to decisions that, over longer periods of time, proved to be valuable. So I was asked to collaborate more on technical decisions and providing design ideas.

I'm in a country that puts a lot emphasis on "formal education", so having the certifications is relatively important but I do believe they were, in part, a waste of money, due to how/what was actually taught.
>some people are 'all in' about the cause and are putting their Lives at risk

Jesus, the frickin Nazi Youth did the same thing!

Why don't people ever see the leader worship and authoritarianism (fascism) in corporations?
There are people willing to extract despite negative energy efficiency, especially in underdeveloped parts of the world. Societal development requires a particular amount of energy expenditure per capita to progress.
write your name on an envelope?

Are you sure that was a bank, and not some shady business?

Or do you mean a night deposit box for businesses?
So it'll still steal your intellectual property and ship it to China but at least they can't run exploits?

I don't get it. The video communications IS the valuable information, and they've already shown they'll route American communicates straight to China and lie about E2EE to advance their goals.
What is a BMW city? Is it just Munich or some other Bavarian city where loyalty towards BMW is high?
Google has a track record of serving different experiences to Firefox users, and it has nothing to do with compatibility, changing your user agent so you appear as Chrome shows pages that work just fine.

I'm convinced it's a deliberate action.
> I can't memorise AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIFwAU7Q9tccWIyPviJuzAatFIgQZVRr7mExznfbUR9Il. I can't print it on a poster when promoting my service. I can use a QR code, but that's ripe for exploitation. Someone can easily replace the QR code on my poster, and there's no way for anyone viewing the poster to know that it's not the correct QR code.

Which isn't a problem of the qr code, since you can't tell if someone replaced AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIFwAU7Q9tccWIyPviJuzAatFIgQZVRr7mExznfbUR9Il with AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI17TE5AAAAIFwAU7Q9tccWIyPviJuzAatFIgQZVRr7mExznfbUR9Il.

At least you have a fighting chance of realising something is wrong when they say "x3blah has released a new album. Get it now from x4blah.com". Humans can only understand human understandable things.
> don't particularly enjoy the feeling of having noise cancellation headphones on for the entire workday - it starts to feel a bit vertigo-ey.

Ay. It shouldn't be acceptable that those who prefer / need quiet are expected to block out the outside world with headphones and earplugs and Phil the motormouth is allowed to run his jaw all day.

The default should be either Phil takes his chit chat to a private room (offices for everyone) or he shuts the fuck up unless it's a dedicated discussion time.
Are they rhyming yoke with joke or vice versa?
What? and deprive the managers of being able to lord over their domain? They get the fits if they don't see hundreds bent over in servitude.
Keeping entrenched carmakers happy and double standards from the state when dealing with institutions they have a stake on is stability, after all...