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I'm pretty sure that, if a software engineer, you were to pick up and conform to executive social and cultural norms, and did the work required to be able to manage people, raise money, and so on, your salary COULD go up 3-4x. Clothing is but one tiny piece of that. You'd also need to learn a new communication style, learn to code-switch ethics/values, and so on.

People who can bridge technical, business, marketing, and sales are extremely highly valued.

I've learned to adapt, and I have a choice of jobs spanning about a 10x salary range as a result.

The choice I made: I chose the job which was the most fun and fulfilling, while still paying enough to where I don't need to stress about money (so long as I live a modest life). At the time, I had an offer at 2x that salary, and was being recruited into jobs at 2x that in turn. I also had more academic job offers where I could financially scrape by, but /with/ financial stress, which didn't seem worthwhile.

Also: If financial institutions were so conservative, we wouldn't have regular meltdowns like the subprime mortgage crisis.
Fair. I think the company wants me pretty badly, and knows I'll likely stick around because I'm still vesting. So there's no incentive for them to grant an exercise window extension at this point.
I think a scary part of your comment is that since you don’t feel it would impact others use cases and you don’t see why some library might want different semantics, you leap to the conclusion that the burden of proof to prove these things rests with other people.
Unfortunately, for every conscientious person that they push away another user is hooked even deeper. Their redesign is insidious. Their page is now aggressively attempting to manipulate you into browsing longer; infinite scrolling, and the way they put questionably-related links in the middle of comments sections is no better than the chumbox clickbait you find at the bottom of bullshit-web articles.
I think a combination of social media manipulation and paid trolls basically describe the current political environment from my experience.
> So, no, lost civilizations are not an extraordinary claim.

> Lack of lost civilizations, where they ought to have arisen, needs explanation.

Well, lost cultures as advanced as, say, the builders of the Egyptian pyramids, but significantly older, is still an extraordinary claim.

In fact, claims of any kind of civilization existing require some kind of proof - it makes no sense to say "the British isles can sustain a thriving civilization today, so we should assume that there was a civilization present there 100k years ago, unless we have some evidence to the contrary (or at least wonder why no civilization flourished there some at that time)".
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I almost never saw that, maybe because we have something like "Aufsichtspflicht" which means duty/responsibility/liability to watch and guard(over the kids). Could be different due to different demographics/ethnicities in social hot-spots now, but I don't frequent them(that much). Also the access to the roof there is closed/locked for liability reasons by the landlord. And usually the higher ones(more than 4 or 5 floors) aren't next to the street, there is some green separating them. But the residential buildings weren't really what I had in my mind when I thought about that. More like downtown, central business/commerce areas, traffic hubs, and such.
A robot that is aware of the car is long term better because you don't have to spend hours programming for each car and paint scheme. However the problem is hard enough that right now we spend hours because it works and industrial automation has enough advantages that it is worth doing anyway.
Indeed, but did those 100 engineers increase the company bottom line by 10% more because they weren’t hindered by too much red tape, and is that value a multiple of their salary?

Also, do you expect mistakes of that magnitude to keep being made?
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You nailed it, friend.
I don't like to have my home WiFi on all the time but I want to be able to activate / desactivate it from my phone anytime so I send a SMS to my RaspberryPi (running raspisms) that launches an app that connects to my ISP router box and activate the WiFi like I would do manually.

My app is powered by Selenium but the concept is the same.
Correct. It’s not always this simple though, you also need an IAM profile that the EC2 instance can assume with the required permissions. Depending on how you configure your NAT Instance/Gateway, you may also need to whitelist the ssm service.
>That's true of basically 85% of the world.

That's precisely why the argument of "if we tax the rich they'll just take their wealth elsewhere" doesn't stack up. If it happens, when it happens, it happens because we made a conscious decision to enable it.
> it all made sense if you applied the policies the infrastructure team had invented

Was it basically "we charge more for stuff we don't want to do"?

Makes sense, like:

> When a customer asked if he could have chips with his lunch, White hand-cut and personally cooked the chips, but charged the customer £25 for his time.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Pierre_White#cite_note-o...
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> And now Apple pulls this? Regardless of the situation, it's bad optics.

Epic pulled a fast one, not Apple. Apple's behavior is following the algorithm of their written policy. Epic violated the developer agreement with sneaking in a payment option with an upgrade. It is an intentional and gross violation of the developer agreement, the one they agreed to.

All Epic must do to resolve this is update their software again and remove the forbidden payment option. Apple didn't do his. This started with Epic's bad behavior.

Apple wants Epic's software in the AppStore. Why wouldn't Apple want to continue the relationship? Why should Apple make an exception for Epic to support greed?

This conflict is absolutely absurd. Epic shot itself in the foot, and is now dumping capital into attorneys fees fruitlessly. You heard it hear first, Epic is doomed to lose this fight they alone brought to Apple's doorstep.
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This is all too common.

A friend told me about his company where the IT decision makers were largely centralised, physically near their cloud servers and they frequently discounted the measurable and serious difficulties of internal tech consumers suffered in other locations for years, even though their architecture would have made it comparatively easy to rebalance things for a more global approach.

Early in my career we were told of a major reorganization of my then company's network shares, required "Because of Compliance" - only once it was underway and some key points still needed to be clarified did it become clear that Compliance was not even aware of the project! Nothing happened to the individual who had lied and diverted substantial resources needlessly. The individual was not even a member of the department, so saw zero benefit either.
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Standard English is a Language of Wider Communication. This "centering whiteness" discourse is absurdity.

There's no evidence that there's actual people "uncomfortable" about Strunk and White being mentioned - aside from (in my experience) rich, liberal, urbane whites projecting and trying to speak on behalf of minorities, treating them as helpless, incapable of speaking in ubiquitous ways.
There are browser extensions which automatically do this.
I do not browse Reddit using the web browser; I use the free Slide client, available on F-Droid.

[0] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.ccrama.redditslide/
Hi,

Thanks for the free offer, as far I know it is much larger than what offer competitors.

I played a little with your API.

* First there is a small text on the account page which tells "Your Balance: $10"
What does this mean?

* I also tried your example, it works, then I tried with a text in Chinese. I received {"err":"No instrument","result":"No instrument"}

What does that mean?

Thanks!
> 2. If Epic allowed the sale of third party content, they should not be allowed to control what type of content is sold, nor should they be allowed to collect a percentage of each sale?

I don't think anyone has a problem with platforms charging _a_ percentage of each sale, just that Apple's is too high (and in the case of their dispute with Spotify, that it allows them to unfairly compete in their own marketplace)
I feel like the point of the story is supposed to be "all requirements have a reason behind them", but to me it's more of a case of "even a broken clock is right twice a day"
It seems web developers these days have forgotten the virtue of keeping things simple. Everything has to be smothered in javascript, and asynchronous requests, and fluid UI that changes on the slightest interaction. I'm guessing it is a case of having a hammer, in the form of the heavy javascript frameworks, a la mode, and using it to treat every simple implementation task as a nail.

HN is a great example of how playing to the strengths of web results in a great user experience (possibly the best of any forum type site). Unfortunately it might also be damn near the only example.
Most likely referring to this: https://www.cbc.ca/sports/baseball/mlb/red-sox-pitcher-rodri...
Electrical goods are labelled with kW ratings, and W is just V * A. (Although not many non-STEM people know that.)

kWh makes sense as an intuitive unit because it makes it easy to work out how much your heater costs to run for an hour.

You can do the same calc in Joules but it's far less intuitive to convert a rating in J/s into J/hr into $/kJ (or worse $/MJ)
It still feels to me like praising somebody for doing something mundane, e.g. washing their hands.

Sure, a positive interaction and rewarding something important. At the same time we shouldn’t forget to aim to make this behavior commonplace.
I thought I was the only one. For a while I really struggled with a crippling addiction to Reddit, and no amount of Screen Time blockers seemed to help (it’s too easy to override).

Simply uninstalling the app did the trick. In the beginning I would open the mobile browser out of compulsion, but the UI was so revolting that it’s essentially cured my addiction.
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I'm also for getting rid of the licence fee but instead increasing taxes by equal measure and funding it that way. Hopefully enshrine that funding into law. The license fee is just too easy to attack nowadays.

I find the argument for purely commercial a selfish one as public broadcasting provides a lot of public good through educational means. I mean, just tune into The One Show or Spring Watch on an an evening and you'll get what I mean. Plus no ads!
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And you know, we have a vaccine for yearly flus
That's definitely a valid individual choice, but from a systemic perspective it's way stupider than non-targeted ads. Also, be warned that mistargeted advertisements might introduce adult topics. "Daddy, what is erectile dysfunction?"
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Ads only one of the reasons. Reddit also updated Reddit Coins [0] with their new design. With this new "in-app" economy, you can use real money to buy reddit coins and give an award to post. Another revenue stream for reddit.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/coins
I actually do like the 'explore backlinks' pane for Foam so it would be of some navigational use for me. They list reasons for adding it as:

> Make every link two-way navigable in published sites

> Make Foam notes more portable to different apps and long-term storage

(via https://foambubble.github.io/foam/materialized-backlinks)

Though I may be getting confused between the backlink differences that Foam, Obsidian, and Roam offer. A list of forward links per document would actually be useful as well, which IIRC neither Foam or Obsidian offer at the moment. Obsidian also shows the user 'unlinked mentions' along with explicit backlinks, which is also a nice feature that Foam lacks.
Ha. That sounded close to me but it's not right, I think the reason is that the corners are very small.

Suppose a perfect grid in a hypercube. In d dimensions we have 2^d corner pieces. But if there are k pieces per side, then k^d total pieces (for example 10^d).

If we consider pieces adjacent to a corner, including a diagonal, then these are little cubes of size 2^d sitting at the corners, so a total of (2^d)(2^d) = 4^d pieces close to a corner.

In general taking little cubes out of the corners isn't enough to get most of the pieces. If we think about the diagonals of length k sqrt(d), we've only cut those a little shorter.
The other principle is separation of duties. Policy is made by people who aren't the practitioners so that the interests of the organization are ahead of the whim or convenience of the practitioner. People who served in the military usually get this concept, as it's more obvious that there is a long line of stupid actions on random soldiers' part that leads to a longer line of preventative rules.

I'd also say that when I worked on a program for a big company that interfaced with alot of small companies and startups a few years, the startups in particular had really awful practices. The "bullshit" compliance checklists for security revealed awful practices that present real risks. The big company was more vulnerable to systemic risk due to inflexibility, the small companies are more vulnerable to individual risks due to employee action or lack of controls.
Agreed, not the main use case.
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Org-mode is fantastic. Org files on Dropbox has been my standard note keeping and task management tool for close to a decade. But... it definitely has a learning curve as you simultaneously adapt your workflow to org and customize org to match your own desired workflow.

For me, it is undoubtedly the best task and knowledge management tool I’ve ever used. But, I accepted a long time ago that the Emacs requirement is going to be a deal breaker for a lot of people.
> aside from (in my experience) rich, liberal, urbane whites

You cast too wide net. This is basically one young person or maybe small groups of young people trying to better the world.

It's funny, but their intention is good.
This just tells us that we shouldn’t discuss breaches so much? My one experience with a breach has been that the whole process around it was a collosal waste of everyone’s time.
What about those companies who argue that they don’t seek profit, but that they profit anyways.

Also: would this then include Amazon pre-2001?
I wonder if it’s partly due to business / product people taking control and trying to aggressively push for more user engagement rather than let the engineers keep the site enjoyable to use.

Either way, it’s turned me off as well, and I thank them for it because I got a lot of free time back.
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Do NOT have your phone with you on the dunny and don’t spend 15 minutes on it! Make it a one minute job.

You’ll thank me when you won’t get piles ;)
The reddit video player is one of the worst/lagging experiences of any video player since Real Player, and that had bad internet to deal with and Microsoft messing with it constantly.

I usually don't like to rag on bad but highlight good, but in reddit's video player they are obviously doing too much tracking in it or it was rushed because it is not responsive many times even on a fast connection on a massive desktop machine. It is hard to seek, hard to play/stop/pause, half the time half way through it goes to down version that is compression glitched and blurry, on and on.

If so much of the site is video, why not make that the slickest player of all time? Youtube has always known how to do this. Streaming services do as well. Open source tools are better than this. What is going on reddit with the video player? It probably has lots to do with tracking, cost savings and more but it is unwieldy right now.
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The other answers pretty much sum this up already: the topic is not so straightforward as many think. I believe having a dedicated post on this might be beneficial, so I will put this on my list of articles for the basics on theheadless.dev (I am one of the initial contributors).
A thoughtful comment. Much of the research carried now is a part of immediate future, only in research field. For example, suppose we develop a way to encode information as states of electron spin. This opens a huge avenues for quantum computing, although only at the level of labs. To bring out a user product onto a market, that is a whole different story and complicated deal of various factors and fields, independent of research. It makes sense it takes decades or even half a century to roll out considerable paradigm shifts.
This comment is a great answer to the originally posed question :)
How to not have any, I guess.

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"influencing the votes of other people" should probably be illegal, given the discussion about alledged mass manipulations on U.S. elections.
My dev super power is “I can build anything” so what the heck should I build?
Data collection. More data, more targeted the ads, more income.

I guess at some level, their data costs too go down with an app, when compared to a site.

Also, with constant notifications, apps have a better chance to become addictive. At some point, someone saw data of the time spent by users on their site, to that on app and thought, wow !

It allows for better gamification and better avenues for making users buy awards for posts.

I have seen more 'gold' posts than ever after the app became popular.
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I am so confused. Maybe it's because I'm a part-time self-taught programmer. Are we _calling_ function signatures 'APIs' just so we can speak about the topic of so much diversity in what on the face of it should all be the same implementation? Because my idea of API is the endpoint for a closed system, usually accessed over the wire.

Is this use of the term 'API' canonical or artistic license?
This is the first step only. I remember in 1995 Stallman wanted Emacs to be "like Microsoft Word" with varying fonts and other formatting shit with hidden Tex-coding. Do it.
That's kind of a freaky story. Enough to put you off mind altering drugs in general.
> But who would?

Affiliate networks (the shadier they are, the more likely they will), because they are weird and load third party tracking beacons in transitional pages and want to make extra sure that the beacons (who also can redirect multiple times) have been loaded. To add to the fun, they're also adding random new tracking domains (to avoid being blocked, I assume), so you can't even say whether you expect some domain to be transitional or final to increase your confidence in what you measure.

You're right though, looking for elements is a pretty good way if you know the page you're checking. If you're going in blind, you can still look for things they probably have (e.g. <nav>, <header>, <section> etc), but I haven't found any that are reliably on a "real" page and reliably not on a redirect page.
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HN is good, but threaded NNTP/USENET is easily better than any forum (in Emacs GNUS, or even Thunderbird).
There might be better forums (something topic/tag oriented).
I think it's the hacker mindset of not being afraid to change things. Every job I ever had I always questioned the rules and pushed for change to make things less redundant and more efficient. This was even in retail as a teenager, and being a waiter for church bingo when I was 10.

Some of us just have that inherent urge to say "wait, wouldn't it be better if we did it this way" instead of quietly following the rules. My guess is that people with this mentality are more likely to want to be a programmer in the first place.
Raw makefiles aren't good enough. I want cross-platform package-detection and Visual Studio support.

Autotools is the Unix-only solution to package-detection + environment-detection + build. The cross-platform solution is CMake (not counting its various obscure and immature competitors).
Yeah the new layout is super heavy even on a decent machine and the old one is too 2000's...

Don't get me wrong, I love simplicity like hacker news does. But reddit's old theme just rubs me the wrong way.
I don't see what it does or how it does it, why would I signup?
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no offense taken at all !
I think the opposite conclusion is true: we know nothing about how life gets started, we know life exists on Earth, we have seen no evidence of life anywhere else, so the reasonable assumption is that life started on Earth.

One thing we know (almost) for sure is that no new forms of life have emerged on Earth for hundreds of millions of years. So we should expect that the conditions required are quite special indeed, or the event is extraordinarily unlikely. As such, it is silly to assume that any other planet is "similar to Earth" in the ways that matter for life appearing based on simplistic observations (temperature, distance from the sun, existence of the most basic required elements).
I don’t think I’ve ever heard Sharepoint and ‘trivially solved’ in the same sentence before.

The problem with using sharepoint is that now you have sharepoint, and people will start using it, with all attendant horrors.
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