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True, but being intentional about the connotations of your language is still important.
To be fair, that was the first time the federal government had attempted to build a modern web application. There's a great interview with President Obama, I believe in FastCompany, where he discusses the approach to building healthcare.gov -- the crux of the issue was with the mindset. When you build large physical infrastructure, you need large companies, but the same is not true of technical infrastructure. This mindset had lead to the use of the mega contractors, but it was ultimately a small team that built the version that worked. This revelation lead to the institution of the US Digital Service.
I think an article about false positive rates, and signal to noise, is indeed interesting. Discussing how most of the tests we have float around 1%-2%, and leaning on that to argue that reopening may be safe when tests are steady around those levels, may actually be worthwhile.

Unfortunately, the article doesn't do that. Instead, it:

- Calls into question the legitimacy of coronavirus death impact, consulting a flat death without considering the externalities of reduced risks that lockdowns bring about.

- Links to the article suggests healthy people shouldn't be wearing masks, even though many people are contagious well before showing symptoms.

- Calls into question Spain's second wave as false, the result of over-testing, even though [it isn't, the case count is rising far above any expected false-positive rate, and people are dying there](https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/spain/).

- Puts forth the sentiment: "The idea that [lockdowns] create other, bigger problems simply didn’t occur to [Public Health England] — or worse, it did but they didn’t care."

If the article addressed this head-on and used that metric to determine which lockdowns might be necessary, that'd be one thing. These conclusions, however, are a bit inexcusable.
Ridiculous, they care about a 10+ year old GPA?
Is there a reason that congress couldn't bestow upon the Fed some powers of taxation, while still leaving it free of the political constraints that the legislature faces?
Both are constitutionally protected, so why are they considered different?

The courts have stated that reasonably limitations on freedoms are allowed.
> Truly WYSIWYG.

PDFs are treated that way, but it isn't really true. Due to the complexity of the format, there are many PDFs that will display differently in different viewers.
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> I don't know enough about Mozilla's politics, to make that statement.

And yet you feel qualified to tell us whether we should or shouldn't be political. When pointed out to that we are a fundamentally political organization you shift the goalposts to webextension support (another tick on the HN mozilla bingo card).

250 people lost their job today. Most of whom worked for Mozilla for political reasons, because they believe in the manifesto. But by all means please tell us why our motivations for working here are wrong.
Because in a free society, a system that stops crimes half of the time and arbitrarily denies people their rights half the time is considered unjust.

Would it be okay for police to stop suspicious-looking people on the streets and ask them for ID and run background checks if it caught criminals 50% of the time?
Not sure about this particular instance, but I can tell you about a project I’m working on in C++ that compiles down to wasm.

I was working on some prototype code that would eventually run on an embedded device, so C++ was the obvious choice for that work. Getting it all running in a linux app using SDL was a good starting point, but then I needed to collaborate with some very non technical people. At that point using Emscripten to compile the code to run in the browser ended up being useful work. I can upload the resulting html, js, wasm file to a webserver and anyone with a link can take a look.

Most of the debugging I do outside of the browser. But I was able to do some debugging using the web inspector.

But you’re right. I’m not sure that the tooling is quite there yet for a more generic single page app. My code tends to destroy the browser if left open, and it’s hard to tell why (most likely something memory related that doesn’t translate well).

I’m tempted to do more experimenting with cross compiling to wasm, but I’m not sure if my goal was production code on a browser I’d target anything but HTML5 CSS and JS+framework.

That said, there’s something to be said to being able produce a webapp while having no direct need for HTML & CSS. In the article author was still using HTML and CSS, so mostly the Rust was to avoid JS. My use case allowed me to not have to know HTML to produce a page. There’s also lots of precedent with game devs using Unity or Haxe tool chains to cross compile to the browser.
As soon as their revenue isn't dependent on Firefox, why would they continue to develop it?

If they found a different cash cow with their wild bets, why would they cross-subsidize Firefox with it?

Not focusing on Firefox makes Firefox less likely to thrive, no matter which way you look at it.

It's quite hard to turn that kind of ship around, though, psychologically, when you've been fighting rearguard for so long, and mentally are in a place of prestige while the halo of lights imperceptibly fades. Mozilla's shadow is its own worst enemy.
> If you are a new grad in Microsoft working on most products you will get a weeklong training on how to build apps on azure (equivilant to azure level 1 certificate)

Do you actually get a certificate? That would be equivalent(and would actually be a good idea).
>the person made a decision and took action, over and over.

This is the precursor to successes. It's also the precursor to failures. In my experience, considering success factors in a vacuum leads to skewed conclusions.

There's an assumption that "meaningful rewards can be reliably expected to follow worthwhile efforts". That isn't universally true at all. You could append "in cases where efforts aren't negated by uncontrollable forces" to make it truthier.

To be helpful to more than a minority, advice-givers ought to be able to answer: "X has been done as prescribed, above and beyond even. Y isn't happening. Now what?"
>if someone was up to something that day they would surely just see it on their ticket and walk out of the airport.

or... have two tickets prepared (shouldn't be too hard, it's not like they have security features on them), and swap them if your ticket gets marked.
A neutron star "merger" is a collision between two of the hottest, densest objects in the universe that are still objects. These collisions are incredibly messy and energetic. Stuff gets blown everywhere - a lot of stuff.

Once freed and blown out into space, the remaining neutronium is incredibly unstable without the intense gravitational pressures holding it together. It will rapidly decay into relatively stable material.
Just give me a $10 subscription to all the services in one package. If I got pocket + VPN in my browser for that. Win.

Also, focus on how to share with a family, not under one login ID. $20/mo I get 3 logins under one household to hand out.
> If all you're saying is that they should double down on Firefox and ignore everything else because that's what you want, that's not a very interesting argument.

I started this discussion with the point that I’m not donating to Mozilla, because I don’t want my donations to go to their other projects. Mozilla is of course free to do with their resources what they want, it’s just that they should not be expecting my support in that case.

I personally prefer to fund established projects and developers with donations, I just don’t consider Mozilla very good at starting new projects. I want to fund and support Firefox and that’s it, and there’s currently no way to do so. And with that, comes my criticism of how they are using their resources that I can fund.
"The optimal solution is for management to not let high-productivity talent from leaving - increase their comp to whatever offers they might get in the open market."

That might result in the engineer being paid more than the value of their contribution at their current employer.

Many things could cause this, e.g.

- the new employer is much more productive, can make better use of the engineer, and so can afford to pay more and still make money

- the new employer over-estimates engineer's skill level and likely contribution
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Frequently with my dealings with impostor syndrome, I feel like I've built a tower but it is mostly scaffolding rather than solid foundation. Im not an architect so I dont know what I am missing.

Perhaps the best route is to just start from the beginning and slowly fill in the blanks(while also re-learning some things you already know well)

Im wondering if there is some way to discover the missing pieces of the tower and focus studies on those? quiz, app, etc.
Right, dozens, versus potentially 500+.
You're right. when i searched "digitalocean pricing" today the top results were ads saying "linode is better", "free $100 vps coupon", etc.

It seems borderline fraudulent that Google is doing this to companies that clearly should be the first result on the page.
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Different beasts. Trying a diet treatment for potentially-curative pancreatic cancer is surprising - as it’s effectively suicidal.

Pancreatic cancer is curable if it’s caught soon enough. (And I seem to recall that Jobs’ disease was thought to be atypical in some positive way, although details were obviously limited.) The problem is that due to the anatomy of the region, the disease is often advanced before symptoms are noticed, or noticed and thoroughly investigated.
I love this response... It is pretty much a perfect encapsulation of the delusions of most libertarians. I agree with a portion of their ideals... But they really have no logic behind it that isn't extremely wishy-washy and what they really are wanting is anarchy as long as it benefits them and they are vying for a society that cannot function with any safety unless you have the means to buy it.

Society needs to have controls in order to provide for the weaker people. A huge portion of the tech libertarians literally would have no way of protecting themselves outside of their money. They just want less restrictions on their ability to earn money not the actual freedom they are supposedly arguing for.

The founding fathers were not libertarians, capitalism is not the issue it's crony capitalism

Tax cuts do not trickle down

You didn't become rich on your own & the poor don't deserve to stay that way and a vast majority of them did not do something to deserve to be that way. It's the same as religious people arguing that other religions belong in hellb ecause they were born into that religion so of course they believe it.

Libertarians believe in property rights... So therefore they obviously believe in government intervention because who else is going to protect those rights?

Libertarians motto is basically just "Semper I fuck the other guy" I gots mine I don't care what happens to you... But they want government and protections to protect them and their belongings. They champion the rights of people who deny other peoples rights and try to shift the blame to the person being persecuted. Yet anytime something happens they don't agree with they yell persecution and demand intervention to fix it.
The title of this submission is sensationalized and does not reflect the subject of the article, but rather a small piece from the end of it based upon an imaginary scenario.
The thing that hits me is the "$500k+/year in the valley".

Is this really a thing? Am I a giant dumbass for staying in Colorado? Even factoring in my stock grants, I'm nowhere close to that number.
The "facts" you are claiming are just your opinion. The opinion specifically being that there is literally no way for Mozilla to survive. Others in the thread think they can survive by focusing on Firefox (you disagree obviously.) Some (like me) think they can survive by building new things people will pay for. (you think they are a 'one trick pony.') A CEO who disagrees with your opinion isn't ignoring facts, and a CEO who doesn't charter a strategy towards something other than catastrophic failure is not a good CEO.
I would not trust search provided from the gov, and I suspect most people in the US would feel the same. I can't speak for anywhere else though.
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Google isn't top of the list - because it's way easier for a user to stop using, than MC and Visa networks.

I would argue for an EU type approach and instead of regulating Google or payment networks - force demonopolization and opening up markets to more competition.

If you wish I can even share the priority list in my mind, for what sectors require addressing before Google:

1. Actual local monopolies

2. Local education sectors and their organisations

3. Radio spectrum for local wireless internet and cable providers (to challenge local cable monopolies)

4. Banking and payments systems

5. Construction sector

... basically there's 99 problems and Google ain't one.
My point is that you literally cannot SSR your client js views without a js backend, so node has a clear engineering purpose in this respect. Yes, you can import a second backend into your main backend to avoid writing node, and that's fine, maybe your team is mostly made of rubyists or maybe your existing code base is ruby, there's nothing wrong with this approach, but it is more complication and layers of abstraction than just using a js backend if you must build an SPA.
You have to select a random different tooth every day though.
I'd grant they're pretty big cultural differences between Slavic, Germanic, and Latino European (the latter two constituting Western Europe plus or minus Czech Republic, Slovakia which spent half of that time under German rule) cultures, but what differentiator for a "militaristic country"?

America is no less militaristic than Russia while being considerably younger, and if we're talking the last 1000 years, I wouldn't call Western Europe some kind of alternative to militaristic, it was Germanic nobility duking it out for about half of that, followed by violent imperialism for the majority of the other half.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

> designed to store data estimated to be on the order of exabytes or larger

While google says:

> The Google Search index contains hundreds of billions of webpages and is well over 100,000,000 gigabytes in size

https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/crawling-indexi...

Seems like the government already has the expertise and equipment required to handle data at Google scale :)
I recently switched from Spacemacs (develop branch) to Doom Emacs ... Spacemacs was just too slow (but very nice, better than Doom in some ways especially the layers in Spacemacs).

I might go back and see if I can get the native-code version of Emacs running with Spacemacs, it might speed it up.
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Pay Mozilla for email hosting and matrix homeserver hosting!?! YES, PLEASE! Oh, and in my monthly fees, i can simply add $1 or $2 per month to donate directly to the browser team s well? YES, PLEASE, where do i sign up!?!?!?!?!

While I'm serious about the above, forgive my capitalization and excessive punctuation...but this is honestly a great idea. For Mozilla - which is a company that i trust - to offer a paid service for 3 of the most essential internet services - web browsing, email, and chat (via matrix) - would be a great product offering. They could even offer other additional stuff like the VPN service i heard about...which generates so much value for users, and by making it a paid service, makes it sustainable. I'll add the caveat that none of these would be amazing money-makers, and stuff like managing email is hard, but it is a start, and at least brings in revenue. Maybe not so revolutionary (as a set of offerings), but sometimes foundational things provide the platform for future awesomeness.
Have you tried disabling your compositor? My i3+picom was too slow until I killed picom.
I wanted a IIgs when I was younger, until someone told me about the Amiga. I also looked at the Atari ST. They were both cheaper and much more powerful. (I went with the Amiga. )
> Only failing companies in 2020 view their engineers as easily replaceable.

Indeed.

You should engineer your systems as if everyone is replaceable (including yourself) but treat your employees as if they aren't (even though they are, just not _easily_).
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>But most of the time we're talking about something like $180k to $250k when getting poached to a FAANG

In the last couple years we're talking 2-3x from our BigCo's $150-250K. Getting such an increase people do feel like being hit by a bus - at least my friend looked that way for a few days after getting such 3x offer couple years ago from a FAANG style company :) Our managers don't even try to match - during the 2019 not FAANGs gave 2x, 2x and 1.5x (that one still got lucky as his RSUs value almost doubled because of acquisition right before his first year cliff) to the other 3 acquaintances, and beginning of this year a teammate got 2x from Apple after concurrents with another FAANG and couple non-FAANGs.
On-brand keywords are defensive plays, and should not be paid for unless others are targeting them as well.

It's possible that the competition stopped advertising against ebay searches as online shoppers migrated to Amazon.
I recently got a raspberry pi and set up phpbb using docker just for a fun side project.

I looked at nodebb might give that ago next
This, definitely.

I don't allow my team to bring laptops into any of my meetings, unless they are giving a presentation, and I have taught and encouraged them to avoid taking laptops to other team members' meetings. Instead, we bring notebooks and pens.

This serves a few purposes. First, like you said, it forces you to pay attention. You learn a lot more, and you get more involved. You ask more questions and you walk out of the room having learned something.

Second, it makes you look GOOD. Imagine going into a meeting with the CTO and you're the only person without a laptop, the only one making eye contact, the only one writing things down. As far as the CTO is concerned, everyone else is dicking around on Facebook, and here you are, bluGill, taking notes and being a go-getter.

My team resisted my rule when they first heard them, but (pre-COVID) I've overheard them suggest to other people not on our team to leave the laptop at their desk and bring a notebook instead. It really works.
No, the NSA has one facility that would be a small/medium datacenter in the big league, but only if you assume that the NSA is as efficient as Google, which is a bit of a stretch.

NSA Utah: 65 MW
Google Pryor, Oklahoma: 340 MW
e2e, with pfs, is entirely automatic on Signal, and doesn’t require weird client configurations like self-hosted Matrix.
Lookups are very common in MongoDB; Starting with SQL, lifting the data as-is into Mongo, and translating the queries 1:1 will just result in garbage queries, like that one.

An "idealized" NoSQL schema is far, far more complex than anything anyone used to SQL would arrive at ([1]), but most of that is because in a "pure" NoSQL/Document-oriented database, the query engine simply isn't that powerful (think Dynamo). MongoDB has an inordinately powerful array of tools to get at data in a performant way, and $lookup is available as one of those tools. Can it be misused? Yeah; just look at the parent comment to see clear misuse. But generally, it's very common to see.

Modern thinking around MongoDB schema design is closer to SQL than NoSQL/Dynamo. Arrays are bad, denormalization can be valuable but use sparingly, that kind of stuff.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerg...
Back-of-the-envelope.

In 2014, Google had around 28,500 software developers. [1]

In 2016, it was estimated that the US had around 3.87 million professional software developers. [2]

So around that time, about 0.75% of all software developers in the US worked for Google alone. If your organization employs a few dozen skilled developers, there is a very strong chance that some of them could find a placement within FAANG. It's likely that these are the engineers that you rely on the most.

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-many-software-engineers-does-Googl...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_demograph...
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They ask you to carry it it around however they don't ID you without reason in most places.
FWIW, that is not how all agencies operate, unless they are under a contractual obligation.

For example, some agencies only limit themselves to not representing a previously placed candidate if they are still the role where they were placed by the agency. Outside of that, if a candidate wants to move from one client company to another, the agency may even act as a catalyst, especially if the candidate would be a great fit for the new role.
> You don't have any constitutional "right" to fly.

Of course you do. Read the Ninth Amendment.
Look I'm sure you mean well but this feigned-ignorance-leading-question schtick is literally thousands of years old and is basically just annoying. Try making an argument instead of baiting someone else into a bad one. Anyone past age 25 has long since made the realization that you can Socrates the distinction between any two categories all day. Wittgenstein & family resemblances happened, get with the last century of philosophical discourse please.
Because there is no market demand for it? Why would people pay thousands of dollars to transfer value? Value transfer will get less expensive with the proliferation of e-money, not more. Why would institutional players choose something so expensive?
I keep telling myself one day I'll try to make it, but by the time I feel comfortable with those interviews I'll probably be too old for FAANG lol.
Investment Banks are a terrible example of low attrition workplaces, as attrition is quite high. It used to be the case (not sure if it still is) that expected attrition was ~100% after the first 2 years as an analyst as you were expected to go to B-school, the buyside or somewhere else.
That's why I made the distinction. Nobody can prevent you from moving around as a human being. But people absolutely can prevent you from entering their car, van, bus, or their plane. That is their private property.

The TSA made this weird (where government employees are enforcing things on "private" land like an airport for a "private" flight) but that's post 9/11 weirdness for you.
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> The reality is that the employee was being taken advantage of by the employer and received an offer more closely aligned with their actual value.

In the vast majority of cases, I agree. If someone is working at CompuTech for $100K per year, and gets an offer from TechuComp for $110K per year, that's market forces working in favor of the developer. This is a good thing.

But there is the possibility for entities the size of Google to ignore market forces entirely in order to better position themselves. For example, a guy working on self-driving cars might command a salary of $400K in most cases, but Google or Tesla or someone might offer them $600K just to prevent competitors from having access to them.

Most companies couldn't afford to do that, but FAANG are so vastly wealthy that they can hire entire engineering teams as a loss leader.

This is still good for the developers involved, at least in the short term, but it isn't so great for the market, or society, overall.