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Ask HN: How does your organisation train programmers?
In High Output Management, Andy Grove stresses the importance of training staff in their duties. In fact, he lists it as one of only two methods of improving performance (the other pertaining motivation).

Of course, any time we do anything we "train" ourselves in it and get better at it, but if this was the only training one had, it would be what Grove discourages and refers to as "the customer paying the tuition."

So, clearly, Grove refers to actual, explicit training that is not simply learning on the job. He never goes into detail about how to do this; I assume because it's such an obvious, in-grained thing in all other disciplines that it needs no details.

Yet I've never seen it done in software engineering. So how does your organisation do it? Why do you think it works? What have you tried that didn't work?

Have you decided not to do it? Why?
It’d be nice if they implemented TCP over that 400Kbps w/ 60% accuracy. Would be a nice projection of what sort of loss and efficiency should be expected.
I have a set of N99 masks that I just rotate over a period of about a week in brown paper bags.

If you don’t have enough masks for that, I imagine a sous vide machine (like the Joule) would work. Just seal the mask in a plastic bag and place under water for the appropriate amount of time. These things hold very precise temperatures.
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/806/wanda-the-fish/
Twitter does not appear to have a recommendation algorithm worth a damn.
hoping they are able to continue their efforts and be more respectful. they are the only company that i am fully lenient with to "allow analytics" in hopes that they are able to improve and compete with the more nefarious competitors.
Why should I commit frequently?
>>"With feature flags, I can safely test in production without fear of breaking something or negatively affecting the customer experience."

That's not true at all. It is a common misconception that feature flags have no risk.
TikTok is clearly the superior service. It would be a travesty if Twitter managed to steal it thanks to Trump's machinations.
Using pee?
Please bind mousewheel and arrow keys, thanks.
I worked in IT for a Telco, and was intimately involved in the billing system, the multi-million dollar project to move everything to a new billing system, and then the new billing system.

From experience I can tell you the billing system of a Telco is at least 1000 times more complicated than I ever would have believed. Maybe 100,000 times. The number of edge cases and complicated stuff it has to deal with is utterly staggering, and every single one of them is being changed repeatedly by marketing and project managers and people from all across the company - products for partial months, discounts, packages, rate changes, non-recurring charges, changes to non-recurring charges, fees, taxes, government subsidies, overages, products that have to exist by law but we don't want to sell, products that customers have because "grandfathered", products that don't exist in real life but do in the billing system, etc. etc.

Keep in mind the billing system is extremely tightly coupled with the provisioning system (the one that actually makes the internet lights blink and the voices actually work), which has ten thousand more edge cases and complicated configuration than the billing system.

Once you dive into the provisioning system, the billing system looks straightforward!

My personal bill from the company I worked for often had mistakes, and frankly I was shocked it didn't have more!
$4/month seems a bit steep, especially when compared to other similar apps. I'm mostly interested in changing the time chunk, which I can't justify paying $4/month continuously for...especially when there are other options.

Maybe a one-time cost for some features and monthly cost for more involved features?
NASA to change 'harmful and insensitive' planet and galaxy nicknames
Happened to have bought a towel warmer with UV sanitation pre-pandemic. There are some early reports that heat and UV neutralize the virus.
I don't understand the utility of it. Yes, I can see how this might be considered cool and hip, but.. which my problem as a user does it solve, exactly?
The writing's been on the wall for a while now. I call it "The Mozilla Shuffle". Power features start out built into the menu. Then they get pushed to settings. Then they go to a key in about:config. Then you have to make the key yourself. Then they start ignoring the key but there's an extension that puts support back. Then the functionality which runs the extension gets disabled but if you're really determined you can work some magic with userChrome to get it back. Then you have to make keys in about:config to make it take the changes in userChrome. Finally, it's disabled entirely with no way to get back.

But hey, at least these days I get the benefit of having to use two completely separate methods to tell Pocket to get the hell out of my browser.
How heavily leveraged are M&As on this scale?
I've never worked for a company that trained programmers. You ether knew what you said you knew, or you didn't. Management would weed out the imposters in the end.
It depends on how efficient you can make things in terms of harvesting (with the vertical frames), energy, and lack of pests.

I think you’re missing my favorite point: we can return land to the environment and potentially reduce the entire effects of pesticides.

Even if it were less efficient, that would be worth something.
> without artificial light in the centre.

The whole point of this paper is about having high intensity artificial lighting on the crop. So-- I'm not sure what your comment means.
Has ULA ever designed a new rocket?
Sad, considering their history with Apple Corps, but not surprising.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

> The suit was settled in 1981 with an undisclosed amount being paid to Apple Corps. This amount was later revealed to be $80,000. As a condition of the settlement, Apple Computer agreed not to enter the music business
Importance of committing frequently ?

- Having periodic checkpoints because of small commits helps in debugging and makes the history cleaner

- Small commits make collaboration better. If you commit and push the changes frequently, your team-mates will be able to integrate with your codebase frequently(sometimes even prevent merge conflicts)

- Small commits encourages us to think iteratively
edit to remove because I'm a rude idiot. I'm sorry.
Capital is only safe in the US if you respect it's economic, technological, and military primacy. Ask Russia or Iran if they would be willing to store their wealth in the US. Iran's on a permanent blacklist for nationalising US economic interests and challenging American military influence in the middle East, and Russia too for daring to use its military on Ukraine in a world where only the US has the prerogative to invade other countries.

China's different from those two in that they've been exceptionally careful not to spark a shooting war and to keep enough profits flowing to US companies for the past few decades to keep them placated. But now China's shaking off the leash by building up an indigenous high tech ecosystem that can challenge the US and trying to be the dominant military power in East Asia. Any country that challenges the US can expect its wealth confiscated.

Don't expect the current situation to defuse anytime soon. China's goal to be technologically independent eats into the profit margins and future R&D expenditures of US high tech industries, and China's goal to be the military leader of East Asia threatens America's post WW2 influence over Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines. Both countries want what they believe to be their fair share of the world, but the sum adds up to more than 100%. Both countries also believe they'll be the winner in the end. What better powderkeg could you ask for? Someone will have to give ground at the negotiating table eventually, but that'll only happen when both sides agree on what the actual balance of power between them is and it might take a war to find out.
It is a super exciting time to be doing fintech in India. Here are the open APIs.

UPI = Venmo + Paypal

UPI Autopay = open credit card subscriptions pull

PCR = Open FICO+Equifax

NBFC-AA = Open Plaid

Digilocker = Open docusign+dropbox

OCEN = Open Lendingclub

Together, they are called IndiaStack (along with our upcoming health and drone apis).
What does this track record have to do with the untested Vulcan launch system?
Thanks, I never would have tried that...
NEFT is not real time like IMPS (on which UPI is built). I don't think it is UPI that is unreliable, it is your bank. I have been using UPI on two accounts, SBI one is the one I face some problem from time to time. I agree with the closed source point, though.
If userdata is whats failing you in staging there's simple ways to go about pulling in a sanitised version of prod data to making it more prod like.

We had some issues with Akamai WAF blocking things in PROD which only got caught when pushing to PROD so we added staging to Akamai now its closer to 1:1!

For example oracle e-business suite runs completely different with 900GB of prod data vs 100gb of staging data.

ASP.Net applications are slower talking to databases with 1600gb of MSSQL data in prod vs 40gb in staging vs 3gb in test etc.

DR performance different again because its scaled down version of PROD but has the same amount of data and traffic loads when it takes full production load.

Blog writer is taking the piss.
I've been working in an IDE for music composition http://ngrid.io. Releasing soon.
I think competitions like this exist so city governments can get cheap or free labor in exchange for a pat on the back.

And take a look at who the "judges" work for (most are from venture capital places). They're only there to see if there's any possible way to profit off any of the ideas.
Eh that’s a novel, but it looks like you are definitely equivocating the two sides.

No one candidate or party will ever represent you and your beliefs fully. You have to pick based on certain issues, identity, affinity or fear.

From your writing though I would guess you fall into some Libertarian box.

Also - to respond to part of your article - just speak your mind. If you get fired for what you say you either deserved it or you don’t want to work for that company. ‘Cancel culture’ isn’t a real thing, it’s a right wing pejorative term for social activism.
The Universal Internet
Agree 100%. Just worked on a incident last week which was caused by feature flags.
With all that said, I for one would totally welcome something new in the formatting space to challenge prettier that decouples the line-length based autoformatting from the opinionated default styling presets.

Specifically motivated by this popular issue: https://github.com/prettier/prettier/issues/5814

:)
Not related but your website loads instantly it's refreshing.
I'm guessing you are using the beta or nightly channel. Am I correct?
Is Re:Invent worth the trip? For me the cost would be formidable.
That's so fascinating. If I wanted to know more about this side of Indian fintech, where should I start?
It also requires several megabytes of standard library, kernel, operating system and compiler, but the point is that you don't have to write them. That's why you use libraries.
Yes. Because what is one voice (even family) vs the 100s of voices and constant reaffirmation of lies and misinformation.
Can you elaborate on that? Because the site for Spartacus sure doesn't. I couldn't find any explanation of their "data broker deletion" detailed enough for me to want to give them money.

e: Oh, cool, they're going to solve the problem with blockchain. Hard pass. https://cdn.spartacus.com/white-papers/fiduciarydatabanking....
I would like to try out the (European?) variation on Escro where in transactions are collected and at the end of a month there's a statement you get to review for a few days, and by default everything's approved.

That would offer buyer protection, seller protection would necessarily relate to some combination of combining contract fulfillment reliability / risk and where fitting holds that either side can clear early if the transaction is canceled. (With notification)
Came here to mention this as well.

Really negates the security benefit to running a specific type of hardware.

A design is only considered secure until we realize that it isn’t. And who can say that these vulnerabilities weren't being exploited before being disclosed to the public?

In my opinion choosing to have a smartphone in itself means accepting a degree of privacy loss of and risk if security issues in one form or another.

Phones are a big attack surface, and no design is perfect.
They appear to be running it against both Google and their own DeepSpeech instance then sending both results back in the client's telemetry?
I know we're mentioning the $100k number, but I'm genuinely curious: how do you spend $100k on staging? I currently spend $75k/year on production, $3k/year on staging, and around $2k/year for a full cloud environment per developer that wants one. For me, $100k for staging would mean >200k monthly active users on staging.
And his parents were lawyers, so he was somewhat familiar with the fact that powerful enough people could use the courts to prevent ordinary folks from "illegally" copying software media (tapes, floppies, punch cards, etc.).
He contributes amazing feedback to the SRFI (scheme request for implementation) process and I suspect also the r7rs process. Being the author of a good scheme implentation makes his feedback even more valuable, imho.

He also manages to always be very kind and seems curious in the mailing lists.
No, stable. Oh, and they decided about:config is off-limits too for stable users.
Have you ever even been to a farms in the Midwest? They are not centralized. They are distributed over a large part of the country.

California and several other states are also net food exporters.
There are other chans besides 4chan. q does not post to 4chan
Show HN: A zsh prompt to encourage you to commit frequently
What have I done now?
My Software Codyng Secret: We, software developers, need to help each other
Did gpt3 generate this comment?
Discussion from 5 years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8565459
I find the YouTube algorithms to be a little repetitive. They pidgenhole you into interests, or sub-interests within a larger field (some narrow take on a topic), then they suggest small variations on the same crap again and again. It's very easy to feel stuck within a bubble on YouTube. When I notice that happening, the site becomes very boring.
You can have phone_number@paytm or phone_number@bank as you vpa is you prefer that, also UPI API, you can search users with phone number so if i want to send money to a friend and I know his no I can search his VPA/s
Speech-based control is almost mandatory for people with various disabilities (the blind, those with hand-movement problems/disabilities) and the elderly, a huge chunk of the population.
Do countries lose religion as they gain wealth? (2013)
So, because Firefox on your phone doesn't have X, you deleted it everywhere and installed a browser that... also doesn't have X?

FWIW This is one of the symmetries when we have to do policy shifts like TLS 1.0 deprecation. Even though every major browser will implement the policy and has announced that, some fraction of users will feel "betrayed" and switch from one browser implementing the policy to another browser also implementing the policy.

It's worse if you have defectors (e.g. back when Microsoft had Internet Explorer you could rely on IE being last to actually implement even if it had previously announced a timeline right in the middle of the ballpark, customers would push back and somewhere a Microsoft exec decides that hey, making a customer happy is more important than security) but it happens even for a more or less simultaneous policy change.

Guaranteed some CAs will lose customers over Apple's 398 day certificate expiry policy, even though it affects every CA equally at the same moment.
> Calling customer care is possible but if they ask for verification then again you don’t have your phone.

Card blocking is easier with phone calls. With most banks, there's a direct option right at the start via IVR - the operator will confirm basic personal details (like DOB), and done.

I have had to do it more times than I should have had to.
Can't really confirm on the reliability. I've used UPI for ~3 years now, I don't remember it failing more than maybe 4-5 times. I guess it depends on the bank whose UPI account you are using. Syndicate fails regularly, ICICI is almost always up.

> 3) I find Bank transfer like NEFT more reliable than UPI.

NEFT is great for occasional transfer of a large amount of money, but not for daily transactions as it requires a lot of info compared to UPI (it needs the receivers name, account number, IFSC code, branch name compared to UPI's singular <person>@<bank> id)
You sure about the causation there?
It could very well be that iPhone market power propelled those products and the products without the brand behind it would not stand on their own
Finding the right point in your UX to trigger a paywall
Had to read the privacy policy to see they use Google.

>We share your audio recording with Google Cloud’s speech-to-text service to assist us in processing and carrying out your commands. Audio recordings are shared without personally identifiable metadata, and we’ve instructed Google’s service not to retain the audio or transcript associated with a command after it processes the command
I tell about UPI to my friends in Western countries, When they tell how easy and seamless Apple Pay has made their payments, they're often surprised that such system exists here. One can download GPay or plethora of other apps to setup UPI to sync with the bank accounts within minutes and conduct transactions.

With vernacular support/affordable cellular data, these apps have found its users even among those who have never used a computer in their life to login to their banking portal or used debit card before to conduct any online transactions earlier.

Now, what 'I' don't like about it,

Extraordinary dependence on 'Mobile Number' for security, RBI(India's central bank) requires personal phone number to be synced with the bank account, so these 'UPI' apps send SMS from the phone at random to 'verify' that it's actually you i.e. if the phone number matches its you. If you are like me, who has the phone in aeroplane mode 24*7 or use cellular on-demand be prepared for transaction failures at best to getting locked out of the UPI apps at worst.

Then there is the question of SMS OTP as the backbone of Indian banking infrastructure's 2FA security, we know SIM-Jacking attacks are getting prevalent every passing day, coercing an employee of a Telecom who earns minimum wage is not that difficult and especially since there is zero 'cyber-security' awareness among much of the population; attackers just dupe many of them into giving them the OTP[1].

It's high time banking infrastructure here start supporting hardware tokens or at least TOTP apps and UPI has to hedge its unique id dependence to email id as well.

[1]https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/wealth/save/beware-of-t...
What part of the process don't you like? It actually seems pretty reasonable to me. It sucks for those who end up on a list due to mistakes - but there isn't going to be a scenario where that doesn't happen however the system is set up. Unless paying back debt is done on an honour system I suppose.

Corporations dedicated to, essentially, harassment is much better than the first obvious alternative, which is having officials involved. If the police think you've done the wrong thing they generally won't be dissuaded by a certified letter.
Fire your bad customers
Interesting, I hadn't heard the Parallela name in years. I remember them making some utterly unrealistic promises about close to triple digit cpu core sbc's back in the first half of the 2010's and that was that.
Reminds of a similar HN mobile reader with infinite scrolling I did last week.

https://yoazmenda.github.io/hn/

It tries to extract the main articles image and shows you a cat if it fails
Wow. For some reason what gets me most is the... blue skies.

I've always had decent imagination to turn black and white people into color, and the same with buildings, etc.

But somehow I always mentally kept the skies as gray... as if the death and destruction of the war warranted overcast dreary weather, for years on end.

The idea that WWI was fought on many days that were brilliantly sunny somehow makes it even more depressing in a way.
Really cool. You could make this a Fediverse app, and add social features using ActivityPub.
I dunno, I recently started working with a car audio DSP platform that has companion apps for windows, iOS etc. These apps are basically glorified equalizers with a couple more advanced functions, so the interface is done with sliders, knobs, text boxes, etc. Basic GUI stuff. But the apps were built in Unity, presumably to minimize cross-platform GUI bugs and ease of portability.
everyone gangsta until they have to feature flag a database schema change
The New Shepherd uses the BE-3.

The BE-4 the Vulcan will use has never flown.

ULA has never built a new launch system. Based on their track record early next year is optimistic.

ULA has no real plans for re-use, they’ve never even funded a test program for the SMART plan, and Blue Origin has never demonstrated propulsive landing capabilities for an orbital class booster.
Well, i was referring to IMPS(mistyped as NEFT) as i thought it is more reliable(on which UPI is built).
Yes. This will give a lot of countries incentives to be economic nationalists. For example, a country could lever a prohibitively high tax for all ads on an American social network. This is why Zuckerberg is now concerned about the Tiktok ban setting a bad precedent for other countries. [1]

https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-tik...
I started another company that didn’t do as well before I started Cloudflare. But think, company or not, our relationship had run its course. We could have made sticking together work. But a natural divergence in our paths made us diverging in our relationship very natural and harmonious. She’s happily married with a healthy, happy child today. And my only regret is I didn’t convince her to come to my wedding… even with lots of retargeted ads.
Same here in Vancouver.
Well, in Germany the solution is the standard rate for lawyers. When you loose a court case, you do have to pay the loosers costs. But only the hours they spent in court or drafting actual legal documents related to the case, no the lunch break where the lawyer bought ice cream.

There is also a limit in discovery, so you can't drag court cases on forever as you want.

So even if you, as a small SMB, get sued by Twitter, and you only bring your off-the-street lawyer and Twitter brings their 12-headed star team of lawyers, you won't pay more than double your lawyer's bill if you loose in terms of legal fees.
Catalina is a crash happy POS.
That’s a great way to think about it. And sometimes they can be a mentor too!
Pair programming works pretty well depending on personalities and skill gap. I've learned a lot just by watching others code.