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tal8d said 3 hours ago>'A billion dollars of property damage and the targeted destruction of businesses operated by Korean immigrants, but multiplied by a factor that will ensure laughter at the memory of those killed in the '92 race riots? I don't know how you could more charitably interpret the "wish".'<

I believe you're having problems thinking clearly. Here, in a public forum, you threaten

"A billion dollars of property damage and the targeted destruction of businesses operated by Korean immigrants..."

which is little more than a megalomanic wish. Shouldn't you be taking some medication or, at the least, seeing a psychologist instead of wasting our time here?
Totally understandable, but I'd strongly recommend challenging yourself. Of course I'm a little biased having done a CS/humanites major at a liberal arts college but there are so many great reasons that people have listed and I fully agree with them.

Sure there are very compelling professional arguments, but I would argue that the most important reason is that studying humanities can make you a more well-rounded person and give you diverse frameworks to look at the world with. Technology products have great benefits, but also great impacts on the world. Humanities can help you look beyond first-order technical rationale and link to historical, social, or political factors and themes that are relevant.

This is especially true if you, like many (though not all) people that study CS, come from a generally privileged environment.

edit: Also wanted to add that the "read a lot, discuss, write a paper, present the paper" grind can be hard at first, but really breeds good skills. Being able to read a text, synthesize it's meaning, and relate it to broader themes is one great skill. Then showing up to class and actively discussing the material is another great skill. Finally writing and presenting are skills that take a long time to build, but used continually throughout your professional life, both formally and informally.
A little tangential, but having just been in an argument here with someone who advocated a "nightwatchman state," I wonder what they'd think of the USDA's efforts here (as well as the other governments'). It seems almost impossible that this could have been coordinated by private industry alone: while there's an obvious benefit to the cattle industry, it seems hardly likely that they would have sponsored the years of investment in basic research that led to this, let alone successfully negotiated with Panama for the rights to dump irradiated bugs from coast to coast. Could it have been done?

It's also striking how much these efforts were made harder by US foreign policy and involvement in the wars of Central America, and are still made hard because of our poor relationship with Cuba.
No, the Hubble and WMAP are some of the most-cited experiments, and ISS the least.

The ISS orbits at only 250 miles, barely into LEO.

The wikipedia article has a long list of experiments, but the question is, "Do they actually contribute anything?"

Can you name one scientific result from an ISS experiment? I can't.

> the effects of long-term space habitation on humans.

Humans aren't colonizing anything in space. You've read too many scifi books.
I have an aspergers son and run a 120-member social group for autistic adults and I can say that the #1 issue for the autistic wrt social interaction skills is that they care too much about the audience. I wrote a blogpost about it: https://ericlifeadvise.blogspot.com/2020/02/caring-what-othe...
Jamming devices have already been in use in Minneapolis
i don't care (as much) for the trends that are shown in the marketing. it'd be cool if i could enter my own criteria such as specific conglomerate names (like nestle) or create advanced filters.
Maybe you are right, but it didn't seem to work in Hong Kong. Here a new recruit is paid nearly 6000 USD / month after tax, double that of a new software engineer. I think you've seen the outcome in the news.
OP here, much of this paper resonates around the knowledge we need to build a system, lot of this is like the understanding of business rules, is the context we need to build a working software in the first place.

The problem is that knowledge is mostly "tacit", and tends to grow as the software evolves. For example, several development tasks are normally completed not only based on the documented user stories, but they also carry the context from meetings or discussions that aren't documented.

When you lose the original authors of the program, it becomes very difficult to rebuild the necessary context to understand how the system works - tasks like adding new features or modifying existing behavior becomes very hard. Also in the "The Metaphor as a Theory" part, much of the work is a shared knowledge between the developers, when you have several programmers working in parallel as fast as they can, the design of the program can become highly incoherent.

Nowdays we have practices like testing which could be a really helpful companion when it comes to understanding how the system works and the expected behavior of it's parts, which can be treated as a documentation, also we have code reviews that can guarantee that any addition to the system is consistent according to the system's design if is done right.

But still, this dependency of the context it's a very hard problem to resolve.
I make a case by case determination based on what info is out there, what I am able to observe, and the sum total of my life experiences. What I believe is true about an individual topic does not always fall directly in the center. But I guarantee you the left spins their stories just as much as the right does.
> However, I don't agree that if someone's ranking of these values differs from others on the team that means that someone should leave.

The use of the word “agree” suggests that the article says the thing you say you don't agree with but it doesn't.

The importance (to be fair, absolute importance is probably more important than ranking here) of the questions is important to ubderstabing how much you can or cannot accept divergence in the subject matter of each question between your preference and that of (or imposed on, for those where the decision comes from outside) the team.

And the same works in reverse for the team’s perceived importance of each question and their ability to accommodate/tolerate divergence from you.

So understanding the ranking, yours and the teams, is important to understanding fit, but fit isn't driven by alignment of the rankings (in fact, to the extent that there is disagreement in preferences, it is ideal that your importance order is inverted from the teams—that you are flexible where the team is inflexible, and vice versa.)
> I am with you on not being willing to pay anything for the service.

What if it were not offered for free? What if you had to pay a subscription of, say, $10 a year? Would you pay for it then?

If your answer is yes, then it's not that you're not willing to pay anything for it; you are simply taking advantage of the fact that right now you don't have to. But the fact that you don't have to is a side effect of the ad-supported business model, which IMO is doing a lot of damage that could be avoided if only Google would take the simple step that businesses have taken since time immemorial, of charging its users directly for the services they use.

If your answer is no, then evidently this application is not as great and wonderful and useful as people are claiming it is, since it isn't even worth a $10/year subscription, i.e., about 1/10 the price of Netflix.
the cycle of technology. What is old will be new again.
"But qualified immunity prevents those who care to take recourse from acting to take recourse."

If a cop murders someone, we need a way to get them into prison, not a way to sue them (or sue the taxpayers).

More bodycams, more dash cams. Maybe every arrest video should be reviewed by an independent organization even without a complaint. Usually bad behavior starts with little things, and its easier to correct before it escalates.
what's the advantage over other apps that do this natively, without electron, and also provide more bells and whistles?
> The problem with overly wide lines is that it hurts readability because it's harder to find the next line when scanning your eyes from right back to left.

This is indeed why a large number of books and articles and papers opt for multiple-column formats.

Frequent line breaks also help better break up distinct pieces that warrant independent examination, much like how such breaks in poetry help isolate distinct thoughts. There are certainly cases where such a "thought" does indeed exceed that 80-line limit, but I've found that they are rare (though this obviously depends on the language; for example, in my day job my T-SQL code frequently exceeds that arbitrary limit, simply because it often takes more characters to express a "thought").

All that being said, I wouldn't impose this on an existing project. If Linux's standard is for 100-character lines, then that is the standard to which I'll adhere. For my own code, however, 80 characters is (language limitations notwithstanding) more than sufficient.
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It seems likely that many people who were not previously racist have become racist after witnessing these riots. I keep asking people the question -- if all racism was cured, if it no longer existed, and all police behaved 100% innocently, except 1 white cop who kills 1 black man -- what is the proper response? Burning down cities? Concluding systemic racism?
I love the gates. It didn't expect much, but it was truly amazing experience. I like experience art.

I met a volunteer and he gave me a piece of the orange fabric.
> Hookless calls your back at the precise time you want

you*

also, i imagine a lot of billing will be fractional cents. do you count up to the nearest penny?
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Yes! FWIW, at least one from that series was highly discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21663852
Fair point! The question I have then is whether it's possible to create a tool that automatically detects bugs like this without needing to write an integration test for this specific cases.
The "groupism" of lumping "white", "black", "cops", "Republicans", etc is just not useful. Just distracting old tribalism instincts. Take personal responsibility and expect it from others.
Astonishing.

The problem, here, is not the word whataboutism, nor is that word a showstopper for rational conversation. The point is not to shame the target in any way. The point is to bring the conversation back to the original point: Instead of "but what about..", talk to the actual point.

Which, so far, you've absolutely refused to do. At no point have you addressed the original point you tried to make, that there is some need to compare police brutality to something else.

So, let me walk back the comment on 'whataboutism' and instead of using the shorthand ask you why should we give any consideration to the question "what about other criminals' while discussing police brutality?

It appears that you're unwilling to stand honestly behind your own statements, nor willing to engage with the substance of the statements others have made, but rather would prefer to be evasive.

I would absolutely love to be proven wrong, here, but sadly fully expect not to be.
You may also be in a position where you can alias those names to something more reasonable.
Dolphin is better than any other Linux file managers but Windows Explorer is best IMO. In directory that contains many files, Windows Explorer runs quickly but Dolphin isn't quick as it (and alternatives are much worse). Also I like ribbon UI on Explorer.
Actually, it also crashes on Google Pixel Phones. In fact, further down the Twitter thread, it is an issue in Android itself involving the Skia library incorrectly processing the wallpaper.
In the, "I could have painted that" line -- I've always been more impressed that someone could raise the money and get the permits/clearances to do a lot of these things.
I'm not really sure what else there is to share. It generally goes like this:

- I meet someone, or start a new job, or some such thing.

- People are friendly and everything seems fine for about 6 months to a year.

After that, things get weird quickly, like they throw a switch or something. Either one person starts saying rude things to me and the rest either sit back or join in, or a group of soon-to-be-ex-friends gang up on me suddenly (happened a lot in school), and then very quickly I'm ejected from the group. This happens both socially and professionally. I've also lost jobs this way, where I'd be fired with them refusing to give a reason, or pushed out via some technicality so that they can just have me gone.

My close friends and family tell me that I'm not being mean or condescending or rude or an asshole (I've had many observe me just to be sure), so there's something else going on. And asking the people involved hasn't worked because they won't tell me.
Something to be hopeful about - lower dosages are effective for prophylaxis, even though (Lancet study) higher dosages in cases where disease had progressed did not help (or made things worse)

From https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2020/may/29/icmr-wri...:

> Speaking to ANI on the condition of anonymity, a Health Ministry official explained the context behind the ICMR and Health Ministry disagreeing with WHO's assessment, the primary point being the wide gap in dosage levels given in India and internationally."Internationally in Solidarity trial COVID-19 patients are being administered with--800 mg x 2 loading doses 6 hours apart followed by 400 mg x 2 doses per day for 10 days. The total dosage given to a patient over 11 days is about 9600 mg which is four times higher than the dose we are giving to our patients," informed the official.
Type information is easy to half-ass: list all the exports, mark them as 'string', 'Object', 'Function', done.

Adding the actually correct and reliable types is the hard part. (But easier than writing the code in the first place.)
Won't happen for anything serious, because a process per request doesn't scale. FastCGI is probably as close as anything modern will ever get.
Huh. I hadn't bothered to read the PEP, which is https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0552/ on "Deterministic pycs."

> The current Python pyc format is the marshaled code object of the module prefixed by a magic number [7], the source timestamp, and the source file size. The presence of a source timestamp means that a pyc is not a deterministic function of the input file’s contents—it also depends on volatile metadata, the mtime of the source. Thus, pycs are a barrier to proper reproducibility.

That is, they were made for a quite different use case than you or I were talking about.

I looked at the PEP to see if it gave timing numbers. No luck - would be a good blog post if I were still blogging. It does say:

> The hash-based pyc format can impose the cost of reading and hashing every source file, which is more expensive than simply checking timestamps. Thus, for now, we expect it to be used mainly by distributors and power use cases.
So social systems and institutions have no effect on the human condition, got it.
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> I get up at 4:30 AM every day and work at something until about 8 PM and then am in bed by 8:30

I do me too (since I was about 30). Not exactly 04:30 though — sometimes I get up at 02:00, sometimes 06:00 ... working 4 - 10 hours, then siesta for about 1 hour.

I find that with a 30 min or 1.5 hours? power-nap/siesta, my brain "resets" and I can stay concentrated 10 - 12 hours a day.

Edit: Now I see that you're in bed 8:30 PM. I first read 8 AM and assumed that that meant a power nap. — Seems I get tired a lot sooner than you.
The "Andrew" in question who courted Keivan (AppGet's dev) is Andrew Clinick. He wrote a blog post in response to this a few days ago:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/winget-install-le...

Still seems pretty tone-deaf to me - obviously MS seems to be in the legal clear, but the moral high ground and lots of dev goodwill has been lost.

It also damages the ability for devs to informally meet and chat with PMs at larger companies everywhere - adds a lot of mistrust to the eco-system.

This is not that MS came up with their own package manager. It's the entire song-and-dance routine that was conducted about potentially hiring Keivan, and then ghosting the engineer whose open-source product you were simultaneously cloning.

Of course, people will forget, but many will still remember. This is still a net-negative all-around when it didn't need to be.
> Also, pro tip: nobody gives a shit about your GPA.

Well, no one except for grad programs.
Even in 2014 (grad cs degree), my data mining professor said SVM were advantageous over neural nets due to local maxima problem, so we never learned neural nets in class.
Haha my other comment was both down voted and flagged.

Think about the chronology then reinterpret my question.

When I was 12 I was very active. To only ever have seen USB-C this person might well be a prodigy.

Again, honest question. Calm down with the hate boys and girls, try not to assume everyone is malicious
Ask HN: Programmer to Product Manager
Any PMs here coming from CS background? What are advices you can give to newly transitioned PM? (Barring the cliche advice of 'forget the tech, focus on human', thing)
Yeah I feel bad for the folks who get so upset by the protests that they feel compelled to ram the crowds with their cars :(
The series on Sparta here is worth reading.
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Really surprised you seem to assume this is about you. If there's no in-group to impress with your eclectic tastes, and you enjoy them on your own, it really doesn't apply to you.

Christi's work required a ton of money, that had to come from somewhere. It clearly wasn't the mass appeal, since he didn't sell tickets or anything. It was rich people who wanted to impress one another with their sophisticated sense of art. (or maybe just with the fact that they had so much money burning holes in their pockets)
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It's strange that people are telling you it's not more difficult to perform complex communication across cultural, language, and timezone gaps.
~2009 + 20 years. You've got a long time to wait if you're not part of OIN.

They're arguably invalid patents, in the sense that the filesystems concepts within are not remotely novel and the application to FAT is trivial and obvious.
Your comment put into words my thoughts on the matter which I was having trouble articulating, thanks!
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Of course they do. But to say all police (or whatever group label) are the same and have same faults is a stretch. Making similar blanket statements about minorities is racist.
And helping people from abroad, new in the country, learn the language.

There're lots of older / retired? people at a library here where I live, two evenings a week, meeting younger people (say 15 to 35 years old) who recently moved to here, with learning the local language and school work.

There're younger volunteers too, helping out with the language, maths, chemistry etc — but I was surprised to see that many older & retired people, maybe 70% of the volunteers. (This was before the virus, now I think libs are closed.)
One thing I don't understand is why the taxpayer ends up paying settlements. If I sue the individual, why does his employer (and therefore the employer's funders) pay the settlement?
Is there any way we can meet you sir? At a conference or meetup etc. You're an inspiration and that should be an honor for someone like me. I'm 35 and 17 years of coding and enjoying every moment of that. Though I sometimes think it's been a long time, I'm getting old, etc. but compared to you, I'm a kid and have a long way to go.

My answer to people who ask me "For how long do you think you can code, you need to become a manager or whatever" has always been "Until I die".
I wonder what would happen if instead of releasing sterile male screwworms, we used the gene drive to release screwworms that could only have male descendants. I've heard of a similar idea to eradicate malaria by doing that to mosquitoes.
I'm guessing you haven't read his post on this, because he's indeed not upset about the copying, but about the credit: https://keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/
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Yup, British postal codes are alphanumeric and I've never had a call center worker not follow when I read mine beginning "Sierra Oscar" rather than trying to just say the letters SO clearly enough. The codes are deliberately unambiguous (e.g. zero and the letter O can't occur in the same position) but it's less likely someone understands that and incorporates it into their parsing than that they're familiar with the NATO alphabet.
There is the Optimus Maximus from 2008
It’s a marketing thing
Great article. Wikipedia page is also interesting.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_insect_technique
We’ve been asking for ala cart cable pricing for a long time.

Netflix is pocket change and my family gets more value from it than anything other subscription besides trash and recycling.

I’d pay 2x as much for reliable, newsworthy, and succinctly written coverage that clearly separates fact from opinion.

As it is now, I don’t fully trust any news organization.
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I'm confused, in what way did he screw up? It seems like he went along with Microsoft's alternative despite the red flags and Microsoft still didn't treat him well. Are you saying if he'd refused and waited, he'd have gotten treated better? How exactly did he make this worse?
> NASA would probably much rather be out of the business of building rockets

NASA has never been in the business of building tickets. Mercury went up on Army's Redstone, Gemini on Air Force Titan. Routine launches are on ICBM-derived Atlas and Titan.

Boeing and Douglas built Saturn V, Rockwell built the shuttle orbiter.
I happened to recently read this blog post [0] by Patrick MacKenzie's (i.e. HN's own patio11) which, among other things, covers some of his early time in Japan. Part of it shows how things can work out -- towards the end, he relates how he wanted to get a credit card but he couldn't -- there was an official reason but, unofficially, because he was a foreigner. But then a co-worker put him in touch with a bank manager he'd gone to school with who took care of him and kept up a connection with him for an extended period of time (the story, and the stuff that follows, is interesting, as is the whole blog post, for that matter, if you're interested in how business and startups work in Japan, at least as of 2014).

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan...
If you ever start a blog, I would love to read the stories and experiences you are willing to share.
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For us, the consumers, do we care? If AMEX was gonna do this, they would have done it by now. If they buy/eat Brex, we still benefit from expanded financial instruments.