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Huh. I always thought body shop would refer to companies who hire at scale. Indians call them MRCs - Mass Recruitment companies.

IBM/TCS/Infosys/Wipro/Cognizant are consultancy shops which are some examples of MRCs. They generally hire at scale - like 10,000 people in one go or scooping up a whole college’s batch. Thats how they have also been able to keep a freshers salary static at 3-5 LPA (~4k-6.5k USD) for 13 years now.
I would say that’s proper usage based on context.
Hindsight is the best site. That's definitely what I would do if I was starting a new project using RabbitMQ. Although I'll defend myself on this front; I inherited our RabbitMQ project from the developer who left the company 7/8 of the way through the implementation. I had the "make it work" directive and not the decision making luxury he had from the beginning.
>if you're presenting to international audiences then either one of those two is unacceptable...

I used to have all my domain names registered with Namecheap. I'd get emails from them saying things like '<whatever>.com is due to expire on 3/7/2018' --so, naturally, [being based in UK] I'd note on my calendar to renew the domain at the beginning of July, only to have it almost expire on me at the beginning of March.

I emailed Namecheap several times about this, asking them to use less ambiguous dates in their reminder emails and, each time, got snotty replies saying "We are a US company and we use US date order" [which wouldn't have prevented them using something like "March 7 2018"] to which I pointed out that they had a global customer base, so should avoid expressing important data in formats which their oversees customers would mis-read.

They refused to budge on this so, as each domain expired, I renewed it with another registrar instead and Namecheap lost all my business, my repeat business and my future business for ever.

All because they were too damned stubborn to move away from using an ambiguous date format.

Weird!
Then don’t use the defaults? Sql Server use to have an empty password as a default for the Sa user and it was trivial to find servers exposed on the internet with the default password. While part of the blame was MS’s, it’s always on the person who does the installation to know what they are doing.
TBH I always feel amazed about how worked up people get about stuff like this, especially people familiar with software who should know that there are millions, maybe billions of edge cases like this in a generic knowledge system, and thus at least it's easy to make a mistake like this. I mean, the time it took him to write his blog post is probably more than all the times it would take him to follow up with "What time is it in London, England?" It reminds me of someone who commented that "there must not be any black people who work at Apple" because it pronounced "Malcolm X Blvd" as Malcolm 10 Blvd.

I mean, if anything, just appreciate how amazing humans are at differentiating these ambiguities.
That didnt change anything in my Firefox 76.0.1 on Mac 10.14.6. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Didnt work for my Chrome either (83.0.4103.61)
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The vast majority of lithium does not come from copper mines, but from lithium mines such as the Salar de Atacama in Chile https://www.lithiumchile.ca/project-item/salar-de-atacama/ with evaporation and spodumene mining in Australia: https://www.albemarle.com/businesses/lithium/products/spodum...

There is a lot of lithium potential in places such as the lithium triangle in South America.
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This is disgusting. The value a worker provides the company does not magically go down just because their expenses go down. If I am providing the same value that another worker is, we should be compensated similarly regardless of where we choose to live.

Anything less is theft
>"I went bot hunting a few weeks ago and it was incredibly insightful."

How does one go about "bot hunting"? Are there bot scanners? Is it ML? Genuinely curious. Are there any resources or links on the subject you could recommend?
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Of course. It also costs less to live there.
That same thing happened to my friend M in college. Back then - '89 - our school was probably not unusual in having a campus phone number scheme that was super predictable. The phone number in room X of building Y was 348-xxx1, say, and the next room on the hall was -xxx2, etc.

So if you knew the building, and you knew which room someone lived in, you knew the number. Campus telecom never changed this up at ALL.

Well, in the summer of '89 they built a new rec center, and it obviously got new numbers. And the number they put at the racquetball court reservation desk was one digit off from M's number.

He got racquetball calls ALL THE TIME, but the ones that annoyed him were very early in the morning. He complained to Telecom, but they wouldn't help, so he did what your little old lady did: he started taking reservations -- and to make it worse, he gave out confirmation numbers.

The rec center didn't have a confirmation number system.

After about a week, the racquetball center got a new phone number. Which is hilarious and shows how stuck campus telecom was in their thinking, bc it would've been way simpler (you'd think, anyway) to give M and new number given how much printed matter had the racquetball number on it by then.
It'll probably come back in some form. Totally agree that too much emphasis was on the test score and that it didn't actually represent the student and their likelihood for success at the university. This is just Goodhart's law in effect, "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

However, the reason it'll be back in some form later is because you need quantitative measures to help sort the stack of applications otherwise the overhead becomes too much to deal with.
Related protip for people using multiple languages/dictionaries: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/automatic-spe...
There's no other metadata for text message recipient other than the phone number. You can't see that the sender fucked up before you actually read the text message.
What's the advantage of this over Minikube?
Heya! I’m Jamie, I’m actually one of the co-founders of FluidStack, the company in the post. We’ve been working with gaming cafes to help them earn money during the lockdown across the US, and offering them out to customers as ultra-cheap servers for machine learning, video rendering, and cloud gaming.
We would love feedback from HN on this -- if anybody has thoughts -- I’d love to hear them! You can also reach me at jamie@fluidstack.io if you’d rather email me anything. Thanks!
Depends on the reference point. Maybe less inequality within a country if it’s in line with other salaries. Just not parity with other countries, but as long as PPP is maintained it’s not bad.
I certainly prefer DDG here. There is no ambiguity in "11:00 EST to UTC". EST is always UTC - 5, EDT is always UTC - 4, and ET could mean either depending on the time of the year. Google isn't making an arbitrary decision to deal with ambiguity it's ignoring the specificity in the query and reinterpreting it (as ET rather than EST)
> When Trump snubs the World Health Organization, he hurts American citizens.

The same WHO that mislead the global community about COVID-19 for months and is in the pocket of China?

Trump didn't snub the WHO. The WHO snubbed the WHO.

I like Bill Gates, I really do, but it's fucking tiring that every single snooty journalist has to frequently express their hatred of Trump, even if it means siding with a corrupted organization.

Also, I know several people of less wealth and social status than Bill whom are much more interesting. Just saying.
> Also if the value and quality of work is the same... shouldn't the pay remain the same.

Why would this apply to remote workers but not local workers? Are you saying that you should pay convenience store workers the same everywhere, in New York and Lincoln, NE?

You could turn it around, and I’d say that if rent goes up, wages should go up too. People should get CoL adjustments separately from raises. If we get CoL adjustments for inflation over time (you get paid more in 2020 because 2020 is more expensive than 1990) why wouldn’t it also apply to location (you get paid more in NYC because NYC is more expensive than Lincoln, NE).

(I’d also argue that the value & quality of local workers in dense cities is higher.)
You’re talking about price. Price is not value.
I've had that in quite a few companies. Their only recourse is to fire you if you unperformed, but reducing your pay is not allowed in the contract.

This makes sense to me because I agree to do the job fox x dollars, you shouldn't be able to turn around and make me do the same job for less without my agreement and a new contract.
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> This is true, but I think this minimizes the size of "the global lunacy community"

I have a friend who's a member of said community, and I don't think she's a lunatic at all. I think she's just struggling to make sense of things, and is a bit susceptible to manipulation. For example, one of the reasons she apparently found the "Plandemic" video convincing was because it was "calm", "rational" and "science based". I guess it superficially matched some heuristics for "reliability" and that was good enough for her. Honestly I think these are the same heuristics most of us use, most of the time. Fact-checking is hard and not many people do it.
Oh come on. Here's a five-minute-brainstorm of people still living today who are FAR more interesting than Bill Gates.

* Linus Torvalds

* Bob Dylan

* Paul McCartney

* Terence Tao

* Elon Musk

* Saul Kripke

* Noam Chomsky

And that's just people HN might've heard of. I could quadruple that list in another five minutes if I were going to include people that aren't household names.
This isn't true anymore. Nats streaming has persistence, so the OP's question still remains
Nope. McKinsey, Bain, and BCG are the tier 1 everywhere. McKinsey is by far the biggest and best-known, but it's like MIT and Caltech. One is bigger, and one is smaller. The smaller is less well-known, but it's no worse.

In this case, the smaller companies are, if anything, slightly higher-end (more boutique).

I'm not actually sure the Tier 2 are trying to become Tier 1. It's like comparing Walmart to Tiffany & Co. They're very different business models, but upscale doesn't necessarily beat mass market.
It’s not US centric. It’s just that Siri, and the others (to a lesser extent?) are dumb.

Try asking Siri for directions to your next appointment. She will tell you all about it, including where it is supposed to be, but she won’t give you directions. Mind boggling.

And it’s not uncommon for me to search for some place in the Midwest USA, and get a result in Europe.
In my language most university courses/majors are actually named like that.
Common names:
"Ciências da Computação": Computing Science
"Engenharia Informática": (Informática is usually translated as computer or computing science, or just computing) CS Engineering
Less common:
"Ciencias dos Computadores": Computer Science
"Engenharia Informática e Ciências dos Computadores": I bet you can translate this one
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Alrighty, thanks for your answer :)

That is really a tough UX problem... Maybe a room could have a "sensitive content" flag that is enabled by default for one-on-one chats and can be manually enabled for group chats.
I'd love to see more gameplay. In fact, I'd love to play it myself. I just can't believe it replicates the original gameplay exactly.
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> At least when most computer systems are wrong they’re consistently wrong.

I disagree.
And if you’re using C#, the MongoLinq library makes using Mongo with Linq just as easy as using EF with an RDMS. We were able to easily support both in a product just by passing Linq expressions to different repository classes and the expressions were translated to either Sql or MongoQuery by the appropriate provider.
> it turns out that "[&]" just copies the stack pointer and isn't syntactic sugar for enumerating all the variables that you capture

it doesn't copy the stack pointer, but it enumerates all variables you use and captures a reference to it (I think the &, as used in address-of and references kind of gives it away). [=] {} unsurprisingly captures by value.

Some compilers do warn when you return lambdas capturing local vars by reference, but it is not super reliable.
I think that's a very uncommon structure, but regardless it's a voluntary pay cut in this case. Facebook isn't saying anyone has to move, and they won't get their pay cut if they don't.
I see a lot of people here making references to the pandemic but as far as I remember this behavior hasn't really changed since last Year before the pandemic. John Gruber presumably can't travel to either London right now anyways so choosing the nearest London rather then the most known London isn't particularly smarter just because there is a pandemic.

Also I personally ask a question like this (and I assume many people do as well) if I want to call someone which is notably unaffected by the pandemic.
And sometimes with nested GraphQL queries it just grind the db to a halt. It may be a good idea to convert it to SQL and optimized it by hand.

Great tool. Personally I don't trust GraphQL completely.
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if they work for the same company and deliver the same value... yes that is exactly what I'm saying.
Because in a world where apps do everything for you and 80% of your use is on a phone and the remaining 20% is either for a once a year use case, you don't need to worry about image formats.

Even as a software engineer, I haven't used a desktop or windows in 5 years. I haven't used TheGimp (or any other non web/app image manipulation software) in 3 years.
Later in the article it states aspiring actress. Ironic that you’ve been condescending and yet lack basic reading skills. I certainly wouldn’t want a skin care consultant that couldn’t read the bottle.
Yes and my point wasn't about reading the message but about sharing it with others. If you think you're the intended recipient because the only information you have is the recipient's number, then that's one thing. If it's talking to Elon Musk in the message then it's clearly not addressed to you, so you don't have the same grounds for sharing it.
> shouldn't the pay remain the same

No, because facebook is a a company not a charity. If they can pay less amount for equal work, they should. Similarly I would not pay more for a haircut if there is cheaper barber with equal value and quality.
Wow, this is awesome. Much more responsive than Tree Style Tabs from what I'm seeing, and the grouping mechanism is great. Thanks for the heads up.
What if you want to work remotely from a nonfixed location?
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This is where the right answer is "you do you", since only you and your team know what works best in your operating environment. The previous poster is correct, though, that working backward from business value measurements in order to drive IC behavior is almost always the smartest path.
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Microsoft Outlook Automation?
I work in software development. Our product consists of individual modules, which are bundled together for customers according to their wishes and then delivered. For this purpose, the components are modelled in a Product Lifecycle Management. If new component(-updates) are to be modelled, a request is made, then my team receives the request via Outlook and we have to decide: yes or no. For the decision we just look at a list and then click on the embedded links "valid" or "invalid".
This is often annoying and I think it could be automated.
Do you have experience with something like this (e.g. Outlook automation by clicking on links and before check the database)? Which processes do you know from your projects?
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Assuming a person is physically closer to the non-british london, it's entirely likely that they travel there more often...

It's also reasonable to assume they're in the same timezone as 'their' London and wouldn't need to ask what time it is in the local one. That's another reason to default to one further away, which for most people would be Britain.
it costs less if I decide to cook rather than do take out, should I inform my employer I'm saving more money so they cut my salary.

It's a perverse race to the bottom for the benefit of corporations at the expense of the worker and social income equality.
Someone mentioned this already below, but nats streaming also adds durability.
If you want to outsource-proof yourself, develop your soft skills. Consciously practice your technical and business writing, team management, mentorship, sales, presenting, etc.

Don't just practice. Find opportunities to leave your comfort zone and get expert feedback (perhaps from someone more senior in your company) about what you did well and what you still have to work on.
i mean that was wildly expected, right?
On #1: I continued researching after the interesting evidence from parent.

To anyone interested this is an overview of multiple studies of N95 usage and it’s efficiency in stopping covid spread [1].

TLDR; The results for flu studies show no conclusive efficiency, there are no covid studies, and many studies show negative health effects of the healthy using masks; breathing in virus through nasal passage causing infection to spread where it otherwise wouldn’t, hypoxia causing lower immune response and other negative health effects, etc

[1] https://www.technocracy.news/blaylock-face-masks-pose-seriou...
Thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed answer, I hadn't really considered college teaching and this perspective is really helpful. I'll just have to look at how things work exactly in my country and see if there's an opportunity in this field.
Yet another example of how clueless managements are. They are incapable of actually assessing value of the actual work performed. So they use proxy metrics like LoC, hours worked, in-person presence in the office.

If you want to paid very well, then churn out thousands of lines of rubbish code, be in the office for 70+ hours, attend their meetings, pay rapt attention to their PowerPoints and laugh at their jokes. Bingo!
Thank you. :) The US embassy library in Rangoon (Yangon) is a good resource (at least when I was there back in 2000-2005). There is favoritism (library staff giving favors to people they know by keeping some books off the shelf and letting their favorite/connected people borrow first), a lot of boot-licking (library and embassy staff, who are mostly local people, licking the boots of foreigners while looking down on native/local people), and class hierarchy (mostly the rich kids have access to the library; sure there are some people like me from less well-off families, but that's not common).

If one can ignore these ugly aspects and one can be patient to wait for the books needed to show up on the shelf (I took a bus for 45 minutes one way to go to the embassy almost everyday and stay there from 9am-2pm every day to catch the book I want being returned), the embassy is still the best resource we had.
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I have been in IT for more than 12 years and had moderate success. Around 3 years back I started a small trading firm for exporting chemicals, Pharma API, etc. from India to the US and European countries.

In this export business, I have found some good success and now I wish to grow it. In the last 3 months, the business has seen a huge demand with all different kinds of companies approaching us for their various chemical and pharma needs.

I was thinking of partnering up with someone preferably in the USA and Europe to expand the business.

If you are interested, just drop me a message on how you can contribute and we will take it forward from thereon.
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I think you're coming from a place where you're receiving contracts for employment. My employer's contract is "fuck you, show up to work and we can fire you and change the game whenever we please, also, fuck you.". I think that's the employment status for most people, at least here in the United States.
Truth. Funny that so many people are disagreeing with this.

I’ve worked at many companies with remote employees as well as being remote myself, as well as companies that were fully remote.

Unless everyone is remote , and there is no office then it is career suicide.

You will forever be the “remote guy”. You won’t be involved in discussions involving direction of the company, product, etc because those happen in person - let alone considered for any kind of promotion.
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The thing is, they’re not paying less for remote workers. They are paying more for local workers living at high cost areas
When I was in college living with a roommate, a local daycare mistakenly listed our phone number in the Yellow Pages (it was correct in the white pages), so we’d get calls from potential (and existing?) customers. At first we’d tell them “wrong number” but my roommate liked messing with them (the constant calls were a nuisance) and would say they were out of business and other nonsense. The daycare eventually caught on and so the phone company called me and asked if we were telling people they closed (we denied it), and then offered us $200 to let them change our number as compensation. They said it would cover the cost of the calls we’d have to make to tell people about our new phone number, but it felt like a fortune to me as a college kid (more than half our rent).

Point is, giving out the wrong number to people is not good marketing. That would be like letting your domain name expire in today’s world.
Interesting. I can see how the basic algorithm might go "I've been asked for the time (or temp or whatever) in cityname. Citynames are routinely reused globally; what is the closest such cityname?"

But that fails completely when you get to names like London (or Paris or Moscow or Cairo).

But it happens with people, too. I'm from Mississippi, though I haven't lived there since I left for college. I now live in Houston. At a family reunion many years ago, I ran into a cousin I hadn't seen since we were kids. She asked where I was living, and I told her.

"Oh, isn't it terrible about that wreck?" she asked.

Baffled, I asked for more information. "Oh, you know, that wreck over on 406!"

I did not know. "I'm sorry, Houston's really huge. I don't know what wreck you mean."

"Oh, did you mean you live in Houston, TEXAS? I thought you meant Houston, MISSISSIPPI!"

I was, at the time, about 30. I grew up in that state, and lived there until I went to college. And until that moment, I had never even HEARD of Houston, Mississippi (a metropolis, it turns out, of about 3600 people in the misbegotten northeast corner of the state).
That depends on the student's choices. I dated a woman in college who was trying to get a degree in speech pathology. Because it was an "impacted" program, they use the process of having students take general core courses and then reevaluating them. She didn't get into the program after her first year. Given the choice of taking degree adjacent courses for a year or changing majors, she chose to go into special education instead. There were other schools in the state that offered speech pathology but they were branch campuses. Given the choice between speech pathology from a directional school or a special education degree from Big State University, she went with special education. That was her choice. From what I can tell from her Facebook posts, it seems to have worked out well for her.