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Define "good salary". In the DC area, they pay well. We don't have the unicorn FAANG salaries you see in SV or Seattle, but $150k+ isn't uncommon for somebody with a few years under their belt.

The biggest problem I see with them is they tend to throw bodies at the problems. Many junior employees trying to build complex solutions isn't efficient. Even if those junior employees are smart.

Also, not everybody can get hired at a FAANG, sometimes because they're good but not great, sometimes because the FAANG hiring process is terrible, and sometimes because they don't want to live in SV.
Right so most plans call for living underground, at least until they can put some kind of shielding device at a Lagrange point. I assume that’s what really drives Elon’s interest in the boring company.
I have a theory of “quotation attraction”. It explains my observations that a good saying from someone relatively obscure often gets misattributed to someone more famous, especially someone witty such as Dorothy Parker. Any famous, witty person will have a bunch of cool quotations attiributed to her that were actually said by someone else.
It's the same. Bureaucrats measure their self-worth by the relative size of their budget compared to their peers. It's not their money, they don't care about cost, except that the more they can spend, the easier it is to get a budget increase and gain rank in their peer group. Consulting firms like Deloitte help them burn their budget every year.
Yea, so fixed price and t&m while being agile and lean, am I right? Just because something got delivered, doesn't absolve the trainwrecks..
Sorry, I dropped this! :P

Touche.
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After being laid off in 2016 I joined a big consulting company (you've heard of them but they're not Accenture) because I needed to pay the rent. I didn't come up through their training program as a new graduate but as an experienced developer.

Every year I got glowing praise from the client - I solved the problems they had faster than their in house guys did, I delivered on time with the lowest defects of any contractor across all firms that worked at the client, and was a domain expert in one of the client's systems after about six months there.

Do you know what the consulting company offered me as a raise? $150 on top of my base salary. Not $150 a week or month - $150 total. When my consulting company reviews came back, despite high praise from the client, I wasn't enough of a member of the consulting company's team because 1) I didn't hang out with only consultants from the company, 2) I didn't attend drinking events every week with consultants from that company, and 3) I was too specialized on what the client did, so how were they going to move me to another client for more money?

I stuck around for another year and then the client negotiated hiring me on directly.

I will starve before I work as a consultant at someone else's consultancy. I'll start my own one-man firm first.
Sure... probably by design? And 90% of the work was outsourced.
Sadly, not quite there yet: https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket/issues/19#issuecomme...
Some people claim that the coinhive story had some unnecessary doxxing aswell:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/03/annual-protest-to-fight-...
(see comments)

The users of said image board do a yearly fundraiser to protest against the unnecessary doxxing. The first one was started by a random user.
Isn’t most crime journalism the same?

Three examples from the front page of the NY post right now.

I am having a hard time figuring out how to distinguish this and the OP doxxing. The organizationS fact-checking process? Solidness of the evidence?

> Allegations were made against longtime radio broadcaster Larry Michael (retired Wednesday), director of pro personnel Alex Santos (fired last week), assistant director of pro personnel Richard Mann II (fired last week), former COO Mitch Gershman (left in 2015) and former president of business operations Dennis Greene (left in 2018).

> Chanice Reyes, 24, was busted around 5 a.m. Thursday, sources said, when cops investigated a strong smell of marijuana coming from a car near City Hall, where anti-police activists have been gathering in recent weeks.

> Tory Lanez, whose real name is Daystar Peterson, was the person who allegedly shot Megan Thee Stallion following a dispute inside his vehicle Sunday morning, Page Six has learned.
I was personally unaware of these stories, and am slightly disgusted by the fact that I used to think Krebs was a fairly stand-up guy.

Doxxing someone because of a bad book review? I guess I shouldn't be surprised he's now doxxing someone based on a loose thread with no evidence.

I would have thought someone who has been swatted before would realize the dangers of releasing someones personal address to outrage-hungry vigilantes.
Really excited about this.

I evaluated Redash unfortunately it didn’t have as robust a feature set as we needed. I am hopeful that they will continue to develop it and support on-prem deployment a before Mode does anyway.
This is obviously unreasonable - capital punishment should only apply in cases that are both large scale and repeat offences.
Very obviously setting the stage for a loss as the Democratic Party has absolutely nothing to run on other than “we are not trump”
I vaguely remember a post from you on reddit or HN or somewhere a long time ago when you were first getting ready for this trip and the responses were like "You're going to get robbed/break down in the middle of nowhere/You won't find jeep parts in Africa/Why not drive a land cruiser/you will die in the Sahara." Glad to see you proved the naysayers wrong.
Kosovo was a part of Serbia, a Russian-backed client state. You would never see the US advocate for the people's right for self-determination for Palestine or Scotland.
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The kinds of volume we are talking about should be irrelevant for such a system if was designed to handle scale in any capacity.

I mean, there could be bottlenecks, fair enough, but I'm doubtful that's the problem.
They’ve excluded pretty much everything below a hundred stars, from what I see.
I never understood the whole doxing thing... the actions you take in this world are real. You can't take them back. You don't get to be anonymous just because you wish to be or because you frequent hacker sub-cults where doxing is some holy transgression. Bad op sec is bad op sec. Nothing more, nothing less.

If Krebs got it wrong, well, he can suffer the consequences of that, too.
People who hire these companies are typically not competent enough to recognize a broken product.
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> rollingstone.com

Nope. The publisher of “A Rape On Campus” is not getting my clicks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rape_on_Campus
> Outside of some cataclysmic event - our planet will continue to be more hospitable than Mars.

The 'cataclysmic event' space is precisely that which "Mars is a backup" people inhabit.
Complete agreement.
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I believe this might be available in less than 5 years, potentially less than 2, provided both http://www.adhawkmicrosystems.com/ and https://www.kura.tech/ ship and partner with each other. If either one of those companies dies or their technology doesn't work out like I hope, then it might be a while longer.
> and went ahead with a treatment against scientific evidence

Despite a lack of scientific evidence not against. Don't think this has been tested and disproved in a scientific manner. And for ethical reasons probably won't be.

A relationship between male hormones and aggressive behavior while sometimes questioned is generally well supported. Yes that's not ODD but one can easily see the train of thought here.

What the doctor did is obviously very unethical and wrong (if the story is true)

But it certainly doesn't seem like a random out-of-nowhere idea to me.

Seems equally likely to me that the doctor was unethically treating based off own untested hunches as it is that it was a purely sadistic action.
I'm making some assumptions here, but the N. Vietnamese viewed the prisoners as political negotiating chips. They were very casually indifferent to their survival and indeed many died. Quite a few were killed. However, the N. Vietnamese tried to paint a very different picture publicly, that the POWs were being humanely treated.

Doug openly accusing the N. Vietnamese of murdering Stratton meant the Stratton's value to come out of his imprisonment alive was greatly increased, as that made the N. Vietnamese look good and the Americans look more foolish.

Stratton, for various reasons, may also have thought the N. Vietnamese would kill/disappear him because he had signs of obvious torture, which would put lie to their claims of humane treatment.

The fact this happened "in Paris" indicates it happened during the Paris peace accords (which effectively ended most US involvement in the Vietnam war), so was a matter of concern to the top officials in the country.
I've been enamored by Pipedream (https://pipedream.com) because as a Product Manager with engineering background, I can quickly hack together prototypes and get good feedback from customers :) . Pretty sure there are other nocode software but this is great for me.
Some sort of IBM in the background. Contract gets build out to have a web interface built for it. You might see PHP or something (Zend makes a PHP Server product for IBM).

However, like at any non-tech business, you will see crazy shit. Maybe the guy who worked on it wasn't that great at PHP or wasn't real good at web programming, or didn't follow best practices with databases.

A 'good' programmer could come in and clean up the code, clean up the data structures, introduce things like memcache, and speed stuff up significantly.
There isn't a difference. Newspapers seem to dox people with impunity. It doesn't make it right, nor desirable, nor an excuse for others to follow suit.

The number of lives ruined by false allegations that have been amplified through press/journalists is disgusting.
> With lower capacity hopefully comes lower demand for air travel - this can only be a good thing.

Why is it only a good thing? Lower capacity for air travel means all kinds of travel that is of value to people can't reasonably take place any more. People have relatives and friends that live too far away to make visiting in person by any other means infeasible. People want to go to see places in person that they can't feasibly get to any other way. People have business reasons to make trips that can't feasibly be made any other way. There was a lot of demand pre-COVID for air travel for a reason. The capacity just vanishing is a loss for many.
Living on Mars is like living in a bunker on Earth while a global catastrophe is underway. Except it’s always like that.
The presence of other humans would make earth distinctly less habitable than mars - they would tend to shoot at your delicate glass domes to try and get your resources. Moreover the unexpected nature of the impact means you don't get a nice stable earth manufacturing base to set up the habitats on earth, while you do have a nice stable earth manufacturing base to set up the habitats on mars.
Given how obvious their inability to deliver a functioning system is, how does their reputation intact?
"or attempting to start a war by issuing false, inflammatory tweets from world leaders." LMFAO
And by the way, even if the suspect is guilty, he/she might be a small cog in a much bigger engine, and by doxxing him/her the minds behind the fraud would be alerted then enter lowest profile mode, shutting everything down and making them extremely difficult to capture.

Doxxing can be a good thing only when authorities can't be trusted, which is the case for example of police violence and racism, where they're clearly protected by a corrupt system; in this case making their actions public becomes a public service. But in the above and other similar cases, think twice before publishing information that could undermine an investigation, even though they're properly checked and accurate.
>There is a belief that the size and complexity of the others must match the size and complexity of the client. So small, nimble companies don't even get considered. The budget gets set before any evaluation of the problem is done.

My experience is that it's more about consistency and "knowing what you're going to get". When you hire Deloitte, you know they've done this exact same type of project 100 times before, and each time it turned out terrible-but-acceptable. You're 90% sure that it isn't going to result in an amazing product, but you're also 90% sure that you'll at least get something somewhat usable for your money (and if you don't, you know that Deloitte is going to be around long enough to sue them).

With a random 250 person consulting company, you have no idea what you're going to get and much less confidence that you'll end up with anything usable at all. Hell, you don't even know if they're going to still be in business a couple years from now. And with that much money at stake, that's a risk nobody wants to take.
I really think that world leaders twitter accounts should be on completely separate systems from the twitter world. Like a twitter.gov service. It should be insanely locked down, and twitter employees don't have access to it unless they are certified and thoroughly trained. It's just become that important to the stock market and world policy.
A mars colony would likely need to be underground from the get go. Much lower risk of catastrophic air leakage + cheap radiation shielding.
Nice work.

1. What do you mean by "true random"? Aren't the bits generated by a hardware pseudo random at best?

2. Why and how should users trust the randomness of a third party solution that they do not control or see the implementation of?
Imagine if some verified accounts will really open BTC give away with the same format. Just for giggles.
At least they feel bad and apologized. Caltrain leaves early 20+ secs all the time and they cared less.
Some small ones do.
And they’ll probably have a harder job as a result.
what a linguistically awful title
Except you had time to plan for the exact conditions of the "catastrophe", and no one is shooting at you or bombing you, and there is no chance of further catastrophes like an earthquake.

Also - why is this a response to the person you responded to?
You are quite delusional to think dang will take down CCP material. According to him, anti-ccp content is equivalent to inciting 'nationalistic flame wars'.
I’m not saying how the world should work - I’m just saying how it does work.

Why would they admit fault? The entire point is to take the hit and preserve reputation - you being able to find a link would defeat the entire point.
Why would you favor chemical alterations instead of simply changing the laws so this large portion of the population doesn't feel ostracized?

I'm not sure the current trend of labeling a lot of things as deficiencies is healthy for society. ADD, ODD, all that stuff should not be "treated" as much as it is today. Society should shape around how people are and not vice-versa.

We're at a point where having testosterone is starting to be seen as a problem which could be remediated by chemical castration for some people, and this is truly disturbing.
A better comparison to FANG are Baine McKinsey and BCG. If you can get an offer at one you can likely get an offer at the other.

The equivalent of Deloitte could be Oracle. Decent brand name for your resume but you’ll be doing lame work.
Ultimately, is there anything you could do with repetitive regions? Like, were the problems with the heuristics or just a mismatch between ~100 base reads and multi-kb repeats?
Silicon Valley pays way more than any good/known tech company in China, which is why their good engineers are all emigrating to work there and to other places where life is better.

It's easy to romanticize tech in China from afar, but in reality it's like how it was in the 90's in the US and needs a lot of catch up. One issue that I'd highlight right away is that there seems to be a real lack of interest in the actual work; everything's done at breakneck speed for purely practical reasons and they wouldn't get very far without being able to copy/paste from github.
If the institution implicitly understands its own incompetence (that they will explain away as "we just can't find good developers"), they know they can't win repeat contracts, so they optimize for milking the few that they do get.
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There are basically three:

1. Startups, where you are the founder.
2. algo finance
3. MFAANG, v. well-funded startups, as an employee.

It's very hard to "hire good programmers," because we tend not to agree on what "good programmers" even look like (see the 1000+ thread on tech interviews from yesterday). If you want to get well for writing software, those top three are your options. #1 and #2 pay you for value, #3 pays for interview performance.
Start small and build on Actual success. Keep it inhouse.
Not everyone is doing this, but I see a lot of smart people assuming that the people going to Mars must necessarily have the current version 1.x human body plan. Sure, at the beginning, some will. But in the timeframes we are looking at, it is highly likely that we can start the process of incrementally engineering bodies to be adaptable to Mars, not just the other way around. And Mars is just the beginning.
Deloitte is a horrible consulting company. I worked at a company where someone senior in my org had a husband who was a partner at Deloitte. We ended up going from barely using consultants to using them for everything. They even billed us for our own work and most of the time just ran down the clock on the contract and left without finishing the project. Pretty sure what our senior leader was doing was shady and wrong. I ended up leaving and noted this situation in my exit interview but nothing was ever changed. Conflicts of interest aren’t taken as seriously as they should be.
And then tell them all pushes to prod go through you for a time.

I have had to do this in a few roles.

I dont understand the “break fast and fix things” approach for a lot of companies.

For me uptime and security are king. Id rather maintain a reliable cadence over just invoking chaos. Especially when everyone is siloed. It becomes managements role to ensure rollouts are planned so outages can quickly be troubleshot or rolled back.

Now i dont work for a company like netflix. But discipline can scale in my opinion. There is a fine line between paralysis by analysis and break fast and fix.
Stop spreading artificial history like "1992 Consensus". It was not even mentioned in the 1992 meeting.
> You also need a competent project management team (backed by contract lawyers) that can push back

Yep I agree with you totally.
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I always liked seeing the staircase when boarding a 747. It really makes it feel like you're flying through the air in a building.
The reason nations were willing to sign a treaty agreeing not to colonize the antarctic is that none of them wanted to do it anyway.

Prior to the treaty, humans had already colonized every other continent, and had the means to travel to Antarctica for _thousands_ of years.

If colonizing Antarctica was in any way worthwhile, someone would have done it 100s (or 1000s, or 10,000s) of years ago.
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Big or small, inefficient govt is inefficient. Pushing for “small govt” either misses the point, or is dishonest, possibly with an ulterior motive.
I couldn’t possibly know what that motive is, but seems clear to me that a small inefficient govt would need to spend more on private sector contracts than a big inefficient govt, if it wants to do the same work; it would also have less capacity for audit, as gp points out.
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>If Krebs got it wrong, well, he can suffer the consequences of that, too.

And, if he got it wrong, the innocent person he doxxed has to suffer the (potentially much more harsh) consequences of someone else's irresponsible actions. While Krebs begins working on his next story, and if we're lucky, posts an "oopsie" comment.

How can you justify that as okay?
Because the stakeholders don't use the system they buy. They foist then on others. And any complaints are treated like the ignorant bleatings of the rabble. They'll drive home to their mansion in Herndon in their second BMW and it will never come up.
The problem is that the named person will also suffer if Krebs got it wrong. Furthermore it isn't uncommon these days for people to overreact and mob up against the person. We have a justice system to deal with this. We shouldn't have thousands of random people on the internet punishing them based on loose evidence.
Spot on, that’s it exactly. Worked with Deloitte aka Doolittle for several years and they delivered consistent crap results, but the people who kept signing the contracts weren’t even SMEs in the area of their responsibility.
Disney Research continues to produce some really interesting material in this space. This [1] video is probably a better demo in practice.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEatuZaTBy4
I've worked with a bunch of Ex-Deloitte people and without fail they all could talk forever about the subject at hand, sound very technical, but in practice were completely incapable of executing anything correctly, and had absolutely no knowledge of their subjects of "expertise" beneath the surface. They really are expert bullshitters.

I think the real trick to being an expert bullshitter though is that you have to forget that you even are bullshitting. Ex-Deloitte people have deluded the most important person which is themselves. In technical conversations it's almost as if the idea that there even was something beneath technical talk behind these ideas.

It's to the point now where Deloitte on a resume is a huge red flag.
I'd note that while a broken unemployment system would affect statistics on the number of claims made, the official unemployment rate is calculated differently, using the Current Population Survey, and doesn't incorporate data on claims:

https://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm
Hey thank you I could have been more clear, intermediary is the wrong word and thank you for showing me that. I did read the article, and I can't see where it says "tell them". I do see the bold heading "ask if it’s ok first".

"Hey is it ok if I tell your manager you're doing a great job?"
Is a lot more indirect than "Hey, I think you're doing a great job" and pausing for a response and having a conversation about it.
To your edit:

A good strategy is to hire a team, get a few consultants who have literally built the same system down the road, and use that blended team until 2.X release.

That way you a team that has made a thing already (and often consultants are just as passionate about their work too!) ready to build a better 2.0, plus you keep responsibility and control.
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The way I read it was that they'd tortured Stratton and he had the scars as evidence to prove that they had. They might have been tempted to just quietly execute him at the end, dump his body to hide that he had been tortured, and then deny that they'd had him (remember he hadn't written home).

Instead Hegdahl shined a big diplomatic spotlight on Stratton to try to get them to get them to acknowledge having him alive and deny having murdered him. After that, they'd want to make sure their denial of murder stays true.
It's a pretty well-known fact in Indian universities than anyone even a teeny bit serious about computers should never step foot in consulting companies (unless you are leading a green field project).