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I absolutely don't care about productivity. I care about

> Also, it's nice seeing everybody at work, getting lunch, having a coffee break with people, whiteboarding, etc. There is a huge social aspect that is lost with WFH that zoom can't replace. Imo that reduction in socializing has reduced my work performance because I've noticed I just sprint ahead for 4+ hours straight and burn out really hard at the end of the day.

I like showing up at work to work together with my co-workers. If you don't then maybe you should get a new job where you like the people you work with.

Am I really not looking forward to the new remote work future. Maybe someone will come up with a way to restore the socializing I got from work. I don't just want to hang out with friends. I want to work together with people on a common goal, and by "work together" I mean I want to do this in the same space. Just like eating lunch on zoom or going to a virtual bar via facetime is not as good as actually siting at the same table with friends neither is remote work as fulfilling "for me" as actually being in the same space as my co-workers. But then again I like my co-workers and I like the things we are building together.
This is enterprise software, which by definition means the people who approved and purchased it are not the people forced to use it. That alone usually makes it garbage.

"Enterprise software" also frequently implies it was supplied by the lowest bidder, and that means it was poorly-designed, poorly-implemented, and poorly-tested by inexperienced programmers.

And hundreds of students are at its mercy. This is probably actionable.
> skeumorphic design

ios 7 was a real turn for the worse in that respect.
Nope. Ports that you can use are already advertised to you: web links, MX records, registrar records, WSDLs etc. Enumerating all ports that aren’t advertised to you is an overreach.
I'm confused - are you saying you work with people under 40 within SF and/or NYC and they all own homes? I'm pretty surprised...
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We have a decent marketing website explaining what we do and how it works. We also post blogs on the site once in a while.

But, so far we haven't focussed on SEO at all as the website hasn't been our primary focus and also as SEO is not easy (?) and not our strength.

Almost all our ads take the user directly to the App Store/ Play Store.

Ultimately, to gain organic traffic, SEO is key. So, is it better to invest on it sooner rather than later?
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True. And if I move to another country I'll let my employer know.

Until then, good luck finding another me.
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They already press ganged inmates into picking up trash in New Orleans when the sanitation workers went on strike, don’t give them any more ideas
Cross countries and this happens. Pay in Canada is a lot lower than bay area pay at Google.
Any port that isn’t advertised to you explicitly is an overreach. You don’t run through hosts and ports to “find out services to use”. What’s a legitimate use case for that other than peeping?
Swift? I didn't know it had much use outside of mac/iOS. It seems like a cool language otherwise.
He and Martin Sustrik both created ZeroMQ. Then after that, they saw some of the limits of ZMQ and created nanomsg. It's excited to see what cool stuff they were working on. It's a little hard to see ZeroMQ become abandonware from them. That said, the community is solid and supportive around ZeroMQ which actually I would say is the best part. In other words, you can tell if a project has staying power when the original creator no longer has to be there to maintain it.
I try to not dwell on it because it makes me sad, but I had a cat I'm fairly certain knew he was sick and was basically waiting for me to get home from a vacation before he took a downturn and eventually passed. I've got four cats and the longer I have them around, the more I think there's more going on inside their little heads than the majority of people give them credit. They have good and bad days just like people.
as are all the great college recs from all those various coaches, etc.
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Google does not have the rights to any of those videos it is censoring? It is like academic publishing. Google is gatekeeper charging a fee (user privacy).

Not sure if anyone has noticed but when logging in to a Gmail account, Google is trying to access a YouTube domain. Not too many weeks ago they announced a change in the YouTube terms of service. Sad to think every video you watch could be used to help online advertisers. Google is not like the public library. The public library does not use the list of every book or other item you borrowed to try to help the ad industry. Of course it is much more than just a list of videos. They probably record data such when you watched, what portions you watched, etc.
The easiest part of my job is writing code. the hardest part is understanding it. Distance doesn't help.
Simple: "the right" plays the victim card more than the supposed liberal sjw menance.
Small software companies. (Not startups.) They really need people who can do the actual job, so they tend to interview for that. I've never done an "algo" challenge in an interview. I've been asked to write code though to solve a contrived problem, but that's unavoidable.
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It's pretty funny. Though it's misguided for the same reason. Making high-productivity jobs available to more people is good. In 2015 it was estimated that US GDP is 9.5% lower than it could be as a result of housing shortages in just San Francisco, New York, and San Jose.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w21154
Apparently you’re not following the news lately.

The Fed is buying up all the corporate junk bonds.

And with all the impending bankruptcies, they’re probably a few steps away from buying company stock outright. You can sugar coat this all you want, but it is effectively nationalization.
> Everly Kai, a senior in British Columbia, had the same problem with Computer Science A last week — she attempted to rename the file to JPEG and received the same email a few hours after submitting her test.

If you're taking a CompSci test and you think that renaming a file changes it from one image codec to another, you probably don't have a bright future in CompSci. just sayin'
The science says we are still not in the clear, but I guess that doesn't mean much appearently.
You were getting $400k+/yr living in BFE? I'm surprised. How did you manage that? I've never really seen that happen with companies I've interacted with but I've heard of things like it here and there...
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Related: The "linux touchpad like a macbook" discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23235609

https://bill.harding.blog/2020/05/17/linux-touchpad-prelimin...

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Am I the only one who goes crazy when they see someone write "outsourced" when they mean "offshored"? These are different concepts.
Everyone should check out the interpret-community Python package developed by Microsoft that encapsulates a lot of these what if scenarios. There's an equivalent "no-code" dashboard. More importantly, it relies heavily on SHAP where possible, which I think is the cat's pajamas.
I learned on a Piper. My friend learned on a Cessna. When he received his license went went for the traditional $100 hamburger (he rents a plane and flys us someplace for lunch). He rented a Piper. It was a very hot year. It was over 100F out on a concrete runway. On his 3rd landing pass I said "your wings are on the bottom" at which point he was able to land perfectly. Anyone here guess why?
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From my understanding, they were filibustering because a pro-china legislator was the former chairwomen of the internal committee (a group that review policies before submitted to vote in general legislature), and for her to be re-elected, she must resign first. Then pro-china party realized their fuck up and caused a whole drama.

According to the rulebook, the vice chairman (pan-democratic) is supposed to hold the meeting till new chair is elected. The democratic legislators saw this as a chance to filibuster because pro-china legislator had an agenda to push for establishing the National Anthem Act. In this case, the filibuster forces the pro-china party into a losing situation.

The resolution was that the pro-china legislators seek "legal advice" from some government legal counselor and directly broke the filibuster by having the general legislature chairman (pro-china) appoint a new "chairman"(who happens to be pro-china) to hold the new election. Of course, this is highly illegal, but it went through anyways. Ultimately, it led to democratic legislator surrounding chairman podium and protesting the illegal filibuster breaking, which resulted in being forcefully removed from the legislature hall.
I remember when finger (and even rsh!) were common.
How does this help? Easier to read tab titles since it's horizontal?
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People are focusing on the good side of working from home but the fact is that a job from home can be done anywhere in the world. Why would a company limit it self to the U.S? Work from home jobs are going to go to the people that are can do the work and are willing to work for the least compensation.
I've had jobs where that level of productivity would have gotten me fired for goldbricking. Gotta love the game industry...
Yes, but none of these things use significant compute.
I don't see my employer as paying less than the value they get from me. I see my employer as accepting a risk I'm unwilling to accept. If I go do things on my own I have so many things I have to deal with. Assuming you start a business then insurance, taxes, deductions, payroll (gotta pay yourself from your company) plus I have to market my skills, network, find customers, negotiate contracts, and always worry if I don't I'll go hungry or miss rent. Or, I can just show up at some other company as an employee and in exchange for getting less than the full amount they take care of all of that and all the risk.
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Hmmm, then why is it possible to SWAT someone after DOXXING?
Or being swatted just after jokingly having posted something about school or work in combination with weapons? (somewhere online, doesn't matter which service)

Edit: Die Gedanken sind frei! The mind is free... Is it, anymore?
From the link:

> Support maintaining and evolving software written in C++ for decades

...

> This requirement should not imply compatibility, but instead some (likely tool-assisted) migratability.

I think the idea is you can gradually deprecate outdated features if there's a way of automatically refactoring them out.

So you might still be able to compile old code, you might just need to run it through a bunch of migration scripts first.
Consider wages 10xing and taxes becoming over 50% and it's not hard to see how firms would have to charge more money for their products just to remain in business.

UBI is central planning of the economy, where the government decides the market value of you simply existing is worth $1000 a month or whatever. Whenever the government thinks they are smart enough to set prices for things, historically people end up dying of hunger. The value of the dollar will collapse unless other countries also adopt UBI, but of course that wouldn't be possible since UBI in America would hinge on cheap overseas labor. Only WE are allowed to be lazy bums! At some point the dollar would disconnect from intrinsic value and no longer represent money, because people are being given it simply for existing. One day we we would show up to the Chinese or Mexican port asking for a ship full of All The Things We Need To Survive and they throw us away because they don't want our monopoly money. That's when the music stops and the real panic begins.
Haha likewise mate, cheers
It’s already happening

Call centers, office assistants are both getting outsourced to other countries or to AI

> If your job can be done from anywhere, that doesn’t necessarily mean you get to keep your job with the city salary and have a sea change.

It also means a “you” will get a chance at a remote job that you didn’t have access in your region
The study hasn't been published, so what's the story doing here? Tell me when I can read an actual paper.
No. A negative income tax is a well established principle. It can be implemented as a bracket, but it can also be implemented as a tax credit or in a fully progressive tax system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax
I used to think the exact same thing about wardriving.

Nobody should catalog wifi access points and their location!

Of course, now this ethical lapse is a business model and apple, google and everyone else does it. literally anyone with a smartphone is doing this to your wifi access point. And they will do the reverse to find out precise location.
Chandragiri hills is at a higher altitude than Kathmandu valley.
Is a local co working space out of the option? Just genuinely curious. Of course, when the pandemic is over.
I'm pretty damn technical and I never heard of HEIC before today. Maybe I would have if I had an Iphone, but in general if I take a photo with my phone I assume it writes a JPEG to the file system somewhere. If that's not the case, the software -- not the students -- should have been able to handle the issue. Computers are the servants of people; not the other way around.
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Actual usable web interfaces mas mobile apps?
Sounds like you don't know music.
> It's a poorly written headline, the scrolls themselves did not perform the reveal.

Material versus efficient cause. The scrolls are the material cause of the revelation, the researchers are the efficient cause of the revelation. Both reveal the text.
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FYI Unisys also makes available free emulators of their two mainframe environments. The ex-Burroughs MCP IMHO is a lot more interesting than the yucky IBM stuff.
the average age of retirement at US universities is between 65 and 70
I'm using a bit of a hyperbole but using redis list as a task queue is a simple as:

while True:
msg = r.lpop(key)
try:
result = do_something(msg)
except Exception as e:
log.error(f'failure for msg "{msg}" got {e} back to queue {key}')
r.rpush(key, msg)
continue

Pop a member from a list, if failed plop it back to the end. It's simple, explicit and just works™
> Why not just create that simple, easy, customized-for-server apps language from scratch instead of making it by breaking C++?

It's expensive and inefficient to go it alone. It makes it harder to hire and harder to both benefit from and contribute back to the open source community. So they make their pitch and see if anyone else wants to get on board and only if that doesn't pan out will they try to go it alone. The price of going it alone might actually be higher then the benefit.
you’re a disgusting normie if you prefer having to be around coworkers while coding. if we kicked you weirdos out of the office we could all finally be WFH master race.
Remember that you get the money back. You're sitting there in the middle saying, $150B/mo? I don't want to have to pay that in taxes. I'd have to pay like $1500/mo more in taxes! But then you'd receive $1500/mo. It cancels out, so it doesn't matter.

You're really only making net transfers to the bottom half, and even most of those aren't for the entire amount. Someone at the 25th percentile gets $1500 but would be paying $750 in tax themselves.

Meanwhile it replaces what the people at the bottom were already getting in food/housing/other assistance. So it really "costs" almost nothing. It may even reduce costs, because now you don't need a wasteful means testing bureaucracy to process and determine eligibility for dozens of separate government benefits that no longer exist.
I think that in the new era of homeschooling, of tracking new information, etc, that we all find our inboxes a bit inundated. I think it's fair that a high-strung, anxiety-ridden student that's missing their senior year memories might miss some 'remainders'.
Silicon in general is a pretty good heat conductor, so that's not a huge issue. Jacking up density does mean you get more heat in the same area, so you do run into issues with that.

That said, having dies close to each other dimensionally is good, since you run into issues with latency if stuff is too far apart. Speed of light is actually a limiting factor.

So, although you can't have all of the silicon 'hot', you can increase the amount of silicon you have as long as more of it is 'dark' (i.e. not active).

Seems like this is a benefit overall, although I wonder if the cost is actually effective.
Even processors today do this - if they're computing complex instructions (e.g., AVX512), they actually downclock because too much silicon is used and they would heat up too much otherwise.
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You don’t necessarily have to start from the bottom, though; you can drill down and get to first principles instead of starting without context at low level abstractions. Both of the angles you two are talking about (providing context and working through the mechanical applications vs explaining fundamental principles that makes things work) seem addressable in the same course if you start with understandable problems and drill down until you get to the principles that allow you to solve those problems.

I think it would be quite difficult to do in a reasonable amount of time, but using history as a course outline would be a cool way to explain the motivations/context behind the principles being discussed. That might better illustrate how math research works by explaining the gaps/interesting questions that existed prior to certain ideas and how those ideas evolved and lead to other gaps/questions.

The type of math courses I’ve gotten a lot out of already kind of did that, they just usually used more of a condensed, logical narrative than a historically based one.
IIRC it is as follows:

You are given two bags, and 10 marbles, 5 are black, 5 are white. You have to put the marbles into the two bags, and then the interviewer (I guess?) shuffles the bags and lets you pick a a bag to select a marble from. You "win" if you get a black marble (or white).

The problem is essentially: how do you distribute the ten marbles between the two bags to maximize you probability of getting a specific color.

My first answer was to point out the window behind him and say "look a zeppelin!" and he turned :D

Like all such problems the actual answer is obvious once you realize it or if you already know it.
Does Prime support native apps with standard firmware?
There's no reports of people being lured into the oceans by dolphins with sinister purposes ... which means that its not happening, or that no one is escaping to tell the tale.
Intel buys Rivet Networks (Killer Networking), intends to scale brand in gaming+
Original title was low info. It was:

Intel Acquires Rivet Networks: Killer Networking is all in for Team Blue

Context for headline:

‘Rivet's CEO Mike Cubbage will now be Intel's Senior Director of Connectivity Innovations.’

‘I did ask a question about the integration, given how when Rivet/Bigfoot Networks was acquired by Qualcomm and then had to spin out again in order to drive the product, I was worried Intel might do the same. Mike told me that Rivet's Killer brand strengths back then, and even today, are in the PC and Gaming space, which perfectly aligns with what Intel is focused on. This is different to the previous acquisition, where is was more of a business portfolio play, but this time around Intel looks set on developing the Killer technology into a wide variety of products at scale, something which Rivet wasn't able to do previously.’
> -> People will start companies here and hire people in other countries to code for them.

This is not what I said. I said:

> They'll probably start their own companies (yes, probably at diminished wages) and produce their own products; and, recognizing the job losses they've seen to skilled, overseas competitors, they may choose to prefer to hire relatively local employees, and the whole cycle may start again.

That is: they may hire local devs.

Actively refusing to hire local or even in-nation devs and hiring only international devs is either something for a company so small they can't have a coworker; or, if they're hiring teams, some kind of money lover that wouldn't have hired local in the first place.
I worked in Scott’s group. He was on top of everything and was passionately involved. We would get in a room and pitch all (yes, all) ideas/changes to him and sometimes Steve. He had no tolerance for bugs, and quality was number one. He was like that coach you thought hated you, then you realized he cared.
The fact that it works is an indictment of the system, not an indictment of the kids.
Dimensionality reduction for image and texture set compression
It defends their investment, both in the skills they have built up and the existing code that they have created.
Sure, but if C++ had a stable ABI, then it would be more practical to directly wrap it. SWIG has some support for C++, after all, and there are a lot of C++ wrappers (e.g. ROOT, pybind11 and Boost.Python can all automagically generate python bindings for C++), but guess what happens when you mix libraries compiled with different std::basic_string ABIs...
I feel your pain. Stay strong. Good luck.