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Technology Is Waiting for Us to Grow Up
I think the issue is some combination of: cheap alternative, unwillingness to train, unwillingness to consider a certain type of person, and unwillingness to take a risk (even if the alternative only secures you mediocre product).

Companies just have lots of choices. It is too hard to employ an American, maybe they need to get up to speed, they need to be paid more. Immigrants will live 10 to an apartment, they can be disposed of quickly, they do anything to keep their job because they don't want to get deported...I mean...who would you rather employ?

I have seen this in other countries. I remember reading about a Greek charity teaching computer science to illegal immigrants...most of those people were leaving countries where youth unemployment was actually LOWER than Greece. Another good example is Monzo (although a terribly managed company), they grew by just hiring all the CS wizards couldn't have done the job.

Call it nativist or whatever...it is a tragedy when people or companies are allowed to shed their responsibilities to the societies in which they live. It is very possible, it is just most tech companies are very bad at hiring/employee development (and why do they have to be good when you have H1B).
I've encountered this as well. I am a proponent of just using low fidelity shapes for mocks instead of high fidelity renderings of what it should actually look like.

If you put enough work into the design system, and implemented it well for use in code, all you should NEED is a low fidelity shape telling you where to put existing components, and how to string them together. Everyone already knows what a modal looks like, behaves like, etc. they don't need it designed for them every time it comes up. That just wastes everyone's time.
Yea, we've had the same problem. I've started to ask our designer just show the thing that should be changed, with 0 other context.

An idea for Figma to mitigate this problem: make a browser extension that can export pages to figma documents. That would make it much easier to have up-to-date designs when doing web development.
There is a Canadian joke that is related to this very thing:

Where did the Québécois get that H sound for Ottawa?
They took it out of here.

When speaking with a French Canadian accent, Ottawa sounds like Hottawa, and Here sounds like Ear. There is a similar more adult-oriented joke about the word Happiness. It is utterly baffling to Anglophones, especially since whatever rule they are following doesn't apply to the word Ontario, which pretty much sounds the same as in English.

If you've never heard Quebec French, imagine Celine Dion telling the joke and you'll get it.
A lot of immigrants want career opportunities, a reasonable path to permanent residence and/or citizenship, and a good environment for their family.

#1 could change, some tech companies have started to realize they can offer more remote jobs and save money while offering salaries that are still very competitive to anyone not living in the Bay Area. #2 was already problematic before Trump. #3 is often better outside the US.
Geopolitics is inevitable: everything's interlinked--trade, laws, defense, research--everything. If a nation wants to persist and prosper, it needs to play the game; being an aloof loner or a blatant bully won't get you far.
Yes, they certainly started with the team from PA Semi. But by now their chip department is a multiple of that.
im not making any comment on whether low carb is good or bad, but figured i'd mention that just because something is good for a diabetes patient doesn't mean it's good for all people in all situations.
You are correct in that it is somewhat starved of resources. The free Heroku instance that I host is running on the free Heroku dyno (512 MB RAM). I do not have a good caching solution currently, which is why Twitter and Instagram are almost always returning errors now. I suspect a single person is responsible for most of the issues (see GitHub issue #38). It's actually amazing how well it runs considering how much traffic is thrown at it.

At some point I hope to get enough time to implement a caching solution, which should hopefully resolve most of these issues.
In general I am against legislation like this. There are plenty of areas for remediation for a rejected app. You can offer on competing platforms (Android), or offer a web-app which is usable on an iPhone. Or you can follow the rules of the app store. Those are 3 perfectly viable options.

We have a tendency to view anything that goes against "us" as unfair. I don't see anything that Apple is doing that is anti-competitive, and don't see why legislation is necessary.
This is an interesting idea! Perhaps a book review or a blog post would be better recieved than a "buy stuff" oriented link to an online merchant
I've been on the keto diet for a while.

Two important pieces of info surround this.

1. Your body is burning more fat so it has to be mobilized in your blood.

2. Blood cholesterol is actually poorly correlated with cardiovascular health. Cholesterol plaques are actually a bandaid for the inflammation caused by a high carb diet. No inflammation no problem.

I am not a doc, so do your own research.
Why did Ubuntu for mobile fail? Feels like that's the kind of thing we need
Not sure why you are downvoted . Can somebody who is downvoting this person, actually care to type what you found offensive or incorrect .
So many people here are celebrating this order due to its supposed abstract benefits but are somehow unaware of the its cruelty. So many visa holders in this country will be unable to leave and enter the country for the foreseeable future. If they have sick parents abroad they will not be able to visit them or, in the most tragic circumstances, say goodbye in person. It won't matter whether someone is a world-class researcher with extremely niche skills or database administrator using commodity technology. They will live in anxiety, fear and uncertainty. One wonders how many proponents of these measures would be willing to uproot their lives and leave the place they call home at a moment's notice. Life is about get a lot worse for hundreds of thousands of hard-working, highly-educated immigrants and there are comparatively few who will shed a tear for them.
I’m a native speaker and I frankly don’t know which I use. I could see it going either way.
They present the same interface, and that's all that really matters. (AArch64 is incompatible with the 32-bit instruction set and thumb, FWIW.)
I was thinking single thread though.

My guess is that there are now a lot of forms of hardware acceleration of specific things that make your daily experience seem faster, but I haven't seen them catalogued and put in perspective with measurements.
Free WAF for Nginx – Nemesida WAF
Have a breakdown by age given that these are all popular places for retirees to move to?
It's a tough job no one really likes. I've tried to make programmers of almost everyone I know, almost nobody wants to even try it out.
I can see how some people see this as positive but the premise that a talented and hard working foreign worker takes a job away from a citizen is short-sighted. Zoom out a little and instead of a talented and hardworking foreign employee taking a job you will see (on an average) that they help grow or expand projects and companies that opens door to hiring more people. Not only do they pay tax here and support social security benefits that many enjoy, they also help businesses survive and grow and help them stay competitive in a global market.

I'm not calling for open doors to everyone, this certainly needs a balanced approach. However, with such suspensions I think we seem to be going one extreme path. Global talent has helped develop industries and businesses here. Increasing restrictions to this extent and suspending these visas is going to push this talent out and promising businesses who want to get the best talent to work with them, will not-immediately but definitely follow their way out too. I hope the people who are celebrating this, at-least for a few minutes, come out of the myopic view and look at the long term economic consequences.
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> Normally there are regulations about what you can and can't put in a food product. For example chocolate often has to contain a certain percentage of cocoa solids.

I hear you, but that's not exactly what I'm asking. I'm asking a more specific question: how does a thing, previously legal, comes to be illegal? What happens at a societal and legislative level for such a change to transpire?
Phil Greenspun writes[0] about motion sickness for student pilots.

> I get violently seasick in any normal ocean swell but have never thrown up on a commercial airline flight. Personally I find light planes in good weather to be somewhat more nauseating than commercial airliners, but nowhere near as bad as a boat. That said, I felt really sick during my first lesson and continued to get queasy whenever my instructor touched the controls. If you tend toward motion sickness, try to find an instructor whose style is to talk you through everything rather than demonstrate and correct with his or her hands and feet. A $100 electronic ReliefBand[1] for your wrist will probably help but the keys to avoiding motion sickness while training are the following:

> - Eyes out of the cockpit; fly by watching the nose’s position relative to the horizon and periodically check the instruments to see if the visually established attitude is getting you what you want in terms of airspeed and climb rate

> - Instructor talking to you instead of working the stick him or herself

> - Fly on non-turbulent days

> Maybe it will take you a few extra hours to get your certificate but you’ll have more fun.

> Oh yes, be sure to carry a barf bag for any passengers. In the immortal words of Charles Wright, instructor at East Coast Aero Club, “Having a passenger throwing up violently a few inches from you can be very distracting.” […]

> Personally I found that motion sickness was less of an issue at 50 hours than 5, less at 100 than 50, and barely a memory at 200 hours. The only way that I can bring on any symptoms is to let a friend fly through bumpy skies while I dig through luggage in the back of the airplane. The foregoing notwithstanding, I still try to avoid turbulence because I find it wearing and uncomfortable.

[0]: https://philip.greenspun.com/flying/learning

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001B8BGS/
I'm a type 1 diabetic and find these articles and studies frustrating. Or at least the way people interpret them.

> Two weeks after adopting the low carb approach insulin was no longer needed. After 18 months insulin therapy was once again required at low doses of around 16 units per day. HbA1c remained very well controlled on the LCHF diet with insulin.

So during the honeymoon period, he was able to live without insulin. This is pretty normal -- there's about a year after T1D diagnosis where the pancreas continues to produce insulin. It's common for people to be able to make it through that period with reduced insulin therapy. And then after 18 months he had to start on low doses of insulin again, even with the diet.

Low carb diets can help type 1 diabetics, but it's not a cure. Please don't go around suggesting to your T1D friends that they just need to start on keto, and can stop taking insulin.
That would be fairly slow, though.
India Is Planning a China-Style Facial Recognition Program
A huge portion of that $400M is spent getting people off the streets - they aren't spending $400M on 10,000 homeless people. They're spending 400M on tens of thousands of housing insecure people and after all of the rent support, healthcare, and mental health expense, there are still 10,000 people that they haven't been able to get off the streets.
I think you're probably right, but there is a mix of both. I'm actually super interested in the platform switch. I can't wait to see what Apple does with arm, and how the differences between arm and Intel change things on laptops.
You may be one of the unlucky "responders": https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you...
Learning becomes harder as one ages, I think. Concentrating also becomes harder with so many distractions.

I think best way to learn anything computer related is to make something. I started learning docker, I took my projects and containerized them. That way I learned what I needed in the order that I needed. Makes it much easier to learn than just listening to lectures in monotonic voices or reading books.
As an H1 all your authorizations are tied to your Visa in some way. They may not expire at the same time, but if you have no way of acquiring a new visa (which under this suspension, you don't) you're in trouble whether you leave the country or not.

> You are still conflating legal status and visa in an improper way.

I am and you should speak to your immigration lawyer if your visa is expiring.
A standard legal test is: "are the alternatives equivalent". The three options you provide are not at all equivalent. That makes it anti-competitive.

Android isn't the same as Apple. They also have their own rules.

A web app doesn't have the same level of access as a native app.

The rules of the app store are unfair and aren't applied equally to everyone.
Yeah, this article was frustrating because there was literally nothing surprising in it. It basically said that during the honeymoon period they could get by without insulin on a LCHF diet, and then after the honeymoon period they had to go back on insulin even WITH the LCHF diet.

That isn't news, and the title of this article is dangerously misleading.
Kunstler is one of those people who has one good point that he makes with a great deal of wit. His point is valid but his critique is not that deep, and outside this one point the rest of his views are reactionary trash. He's a one hit wonder.

This is a common feature of notable critics, probably because it is far easier to criticize than to solve problems. It's far easier to point out why the suburbs suck than to design and advocate effectively for alternatives that address the same needs that the suburbs try to address.

BTW I think your critique is actually deeper than Kunstler's in that it gets to the totalitarian underpinnings of this type of high modernism. People seem to mistakenly associate high modernism with the enlightenment when it's more of a return to pre-enlightenment authoritarianism.

High modernism is a secular materialist version of divine right of kings, with baroque religious theories replaced with opulent displays of indifferent wealth and with sterility replacing aesthetic grandeur as a display of power. The latter may be because aesthetic indifference serves today as a more effective display of power than baroque over-done aesthetics with gold leaf and curlicues.
Interestingly, cats lack the ability to synthesize ornithine which means they need to get arginine from their diet in order to complete their urea cycle and excrete ammonia. Their obligate carnivorous diet is distinct from a human deciding to do it for fun.

https://academic.oup.com/jn/article-abstract/108/12/1944/477...

https://bmcvetres.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12917...
There are just too many jobs and not enough qualified devs. Even in the pandemic. It's worse if you block our international people by limiting visas.

There's already a shortage of devs of course in he US. Plenty of companies have thousands of openings even in the pandemic - of course there are places that stopped hiring or even shutdown and people lost jobs.

If you lower the labor pool size, pay should go up, ease of employment should go up for those who can work here. There's already a shortage of engineers in those special fields like cobol. So it will be even harder for banks for hire for them if you can't get say people from India to move here and work on that. If you are working on a modern language with modern tools, libs etc (c++ or java) why would you want to go back to that old world where there were probably not tests, automation like we have today? If you have 10 years exp in one of the say top 10 tech cities in the us you are probably making at least 300k. I just don't see banks hiring someone like me and paying me enough more to match that far less desirable job. So that leads to banks only having a hiring pool of people who will work for less for various reasons (location, less exp, not interested or trained on c++).

I think this will just lead to more outsourcing to other countries, even though that has its own +/-, and imagine a world where some large us banks lost so much tech ability they are dependent on people in other countries (maybe already happened).
> A game renders screens in 30/60 fps.

This is an extremely good reason, thank you for pointing that out.

> People like to have something like "native" look and feel.

While this is true, I mostly disregarded it because most cross platform frameworks I know of have the non-native look and feel. The only two that I know of that do have it are wxWidgets and now Java-SWT.

> The other option is to use electron as it is just plain simple, works even in the web

I thought Godot was fairly simple as well, and it has the ability to compile to web assembly.

> Or you package a toolkit with your application and avoid native libraries. This happens in the world of Qt for example. Gtk is cross-platform too but not statically linkable.

Before reading your comment I thought that this, Electron, and something like Godot were the only options. I believed that Godot was a nice middle ground between the simplicity of Electron and performance of QT/GTK.
A metaphor: Architects, like devs, are always looking for the next “shiny new thing“. Architects, like devs, could stick to their C or even JS but, you know, there is Rust and Crystal and Elm...

Architect here.
Anxious people can't help negative thought patterns. They happen despite their desires. That's the complete opposite of this case, so I'm not sure that's it.
Companies profit but citizens lose out. Those two entities should not be conflated. This is akin to the outsourcing of many industries such as pharmaceuticals and medical supplies to countries that do not have the same worker or health regulations as the US.

The visa workers are second-class citizens and exploited by companies to keep cost low. It undermines all workers and in the long run undermines all nations involved. Take the US's relationship with China manufacturing where China has some of the worst pollution and is one of the largest world polluters as they do not adhere to any of the same regulations that nations of the west adhere to.

Currently there is the narrative that the US has a shortage of talented STEM. This is untrue. The shortage is due to a skewed labor market that suppresses opportunity for US citizens in the same way that a US manufacturer wouldn't be able to compete against a Chinese manufacturer not because we don't have the technology, demand, or resources, but that the difference in regulations makes it more costly.
Are you asking me how legislation works? I'm not an expert on how it works in your country but you can often look up YouTube videos online if you want.
Off-topic, but just a tip. "could of" is never correct (nor is "would of" or "should of").
He was talking about software jobs.

"More than half of the top American tech companies were founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants"

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/30/us-tech-companies-founded-by...

Recent immigrants were responsible for creating tens of thousands of jobs, most of them for Americans.

Software isn't a zero-sum game even on a country level and certainly US benefits enormously because companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix etc. are global giants but employ massive amounts of highly paid people in US.
I think being around since 2000 on social media is enough research to know that irrational behavior is prevalent af.
Are you me? This hits just too close to home.
Do you think that's not already happening?
Same feelings as you on this one - not that it isn’t par for the course with most science journalism, but it’s especially frustrating for T1 news.

Perpetually thankful that we’re only five years from a cure.
From last year (July 2019), and no follow-up. As someone who has to deal with T1D every day and carefully monitors news about research, I guarantee you no endocrinologist is counseling their patients to try this. Cutting carbs can lead to less need for insulin, but it's not a cure for T1D.
Facebook and Google could have converted their entire software dev workforce to Indians in India any time they wanted. But they didn't, I wonder why hmmmmm.
sketch file is an open format[0]. figma will lock you in. there is no export project feature in figma

https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038006274-Files-...

that is why it is so easy to migrate into figma from sketch, and impossible to migrate away from figma into anything else...

[0] https://github.com/sketch-hq/sketch-file-format
RSSBox used to have Facebook support (but only for public pages, no personal content), but when Facebook started cordoning off their API two years ago, I had to turn it off since I was unable to get my application approved. The code is still there, but I am doubtful it would work even if you manage to get an API key that works. I think the best option may be to scrape the web content now, unfortunately.
You missed my point. I have no problem with the machine he’s benchmarking, my point is rather that if performance or efficiency were the be all for Apple, they’d never have shipped a non Pareto choice/behind the curve. Clearly there are other factors that lead to their choices.
"Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly" They aren't all ugly,just functionality wrong: instead of being places for people to travel,they are parking lots for planes with the rest attached to them. No matter how beautiful the airport if I have to walk half a mile to the gate just to reach the stairs with no lift, it's a failed building already.

It used to be relatively cheap to build extremely beautiful buildings because labour was cheap.

Also,some cities have some sort of planning panel,where people can and do try to steer architecture certain way,so there wouldn't be pink windowless office buildings in an old town built 400 years ago and etc.But that's not in every city.

And the last bit is we just need to admit that the king is naked sometimes: there are shit architects and shit designers who, by some magic stroke of luck, ended up in positions that allowed them to create those awful things no questions asked.They wouldn't be allowed anywhere near anything creative related in an alternative world.
Plants are mostly carbs yo...

well, some have more complex carbs... and some have more fat (avocados) and some have protein, but still "plant based diet" usually means complex carbs...

Healthier for sure, but it can't be considered 'low carb diet'
I guess I stand corrected https://nlchp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Homeless_Stats_...

Though affordability issues seem to be the main issue today (especially) in CA and also that some statistics consider homeless people that are living with family or acquaintances by necessity.
Your assumptions about high cholesterol being bad are wrong, simple as that. Just as a few decades ago, the popular (even as agreed upon within medical industry) assumptions about "low fat" were wrong.

In other words, the measurement you observed was good. Your brain needs that measured value you were tested at to be high. Your health would suffer if it wasn't.

There is tons of research and discussion about this online. The argument goes along with the idea that "statins" are one of the biggest pharmaceutical scams in history, bad for brain health and part of a larger false narrative on cholesterol.

Don't change a thing, you're doing it right.