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I was poor, we ate a lot of fish, did I mention we ate a lot of fish. Got money, started eating other things, internalized that fish is "poor people food". Yep, irrational, but some things just get burned into your mind as a kid.
"One of the most valuable and important journalists in history" is quite a grand description. Can you clarify what makes him so special? I worry this is something where people's opinions have escalated far beyond what the underlying facts support in a cycle of outrage and counter-outrage.
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If your bank doesn't give you a convenient way to download your data, find another bank.
How much of it is actual competitiveness and how much of it is the artificial barriers people put in the form of technical interviews?

There's a big gap between software craftsmanship and the algorithmic trivia interview expectations nowadays, and it seems to keep widening.
I could see a Rust-like scripting language being adopted at some point, all it takes is someone building a proof of concept and before you know it, it winds up in the codebase because it's so polished. Which is another thing I love about Bevy, people are allowed to write their own projects and if they're good the Bevy team will take them into consideration (or that's the vibe I got being on the Discord) which is what makes Open Source so great. It's too early for them and them maintaining Rust is certainly a total strength at the very least.
My last full time job made me consider leaving too. Alas, since I have no other marketable skills (or any type of skills) beyond software development, for now[1], and I realized I just disliked that particular project and its process, not software in general, I'll continue for a few years more.

[1]: I'm learning and practicing creative writing, hoping to publish books some day.
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Not even the EU as a whole, it's up to the individual regulators in each country.

On a related note: Since most US companies base their EU subsidiaries in Ireland for tax purposes, it's actually just up to the Irish regulator. There are... concerns.
Herald turns reading into listening by converting webpages into podcast episodes. This blog post has more about why I built it, how it works, and why the time is right for a shift toward audio https://mattdickenson.com/2020/09/21/herald-speaks-to-you/ and it's also available in audio form https://overcast.fm/+h6eR2wYiA
I think for some people building software became about making the most amount of money they can possibly make, it became about grinding leetcode to get that sweet package at FAANG.

Startups became about flipping crud apps that try to get users addicted to them.

There are still cool and honest jobs out there! Work in a space you care about and have fun, filter out anything with VC money or FAANG. Usually older companies can be more rewarding from a career perspective, you also get to work in bigger projects with more responsibilities as well as you aren’t competing against 50k’s of software engineers to climb the ladder.
earning your food and housing tokens is way better doing something like this than a lot of other things.
Patio11 is practically synonymous with the phrase "charge more" in the startup world, however, his catch phrase cannot be more misleading.

For most prospective customers, you should charge less. For a select few customers, you should charge way more. Upping the ante indiscriminately only continues to make the world even more unequal and inaccessible for the people who need your products the most.
Not sure why you've got downvoated into oblivion. Factually right, practically not possible (EU doesn't have that power). Also hugely unpopular, maybe that's why the dv happened.
>The cynic in me feels this "fighting for your rights!" PR is just to deflect from the embarrassing questions of why so much brain drain to the US for better pay, and that it's easier to start companies there.

It's working. Brexit probably made this easier than ever. Being negative about the EU when it comes to regulation to "protect people's rights" is often simply dismissed.

I'm dismayed at the future of the EU when it comes to computing. Not because the situation is dismal right now, but because it doesn't seem to be improving. People don't seem to care in Europe.
>"For some financial institutions, the problem client is another bank."

The entire global financial system -- exists outside of the jurisdiction of one central government or investigative authority.

Opinion (and this is only one man's opinion):

I believe the entire global financial system must (in the future or far future) become transparent from top to bottom -- with the ability for any citizen of the world to observe any transaction made by any fellow citizen the world in realtime.

The world will not change (and everything in this article will just recur again and again, but with different actors) unless this happens.

Yes, I realize that this is a minority opinion.

Yes, I realize that 99% of people living on the earth at this point in time would disagree with me.

Yes, I realize there would be huge technical challenges and obstacles with implementing this.

Yes, I realize that it could not be done overnight, that it might take many years or even a lifetime, for various reasons.

And yes, I realize I will probably be attacked by many for this opinion.

But nonetheless, that's my opinion.

History will always repeat itself unless we learn from it.

These problems will recur again and again in the future -- just with different actors and different banks...

These problems have recurred historically -- just with different actors and different banks...
Lifetime of the company, presumably, not lifetime of the user necessarily.
I definitely agree. It's quite easy to look at a large codebase and feel like it's way more complex than it needs to be. That line of thinking often leads to rewrites, and in my experience rewrites often lead to newfound understanding of why the codebase was complex in the first place.
Boeing was just coasting before the MBA's damage came to fruition.
This is why I always gravitate towards software projects that are centered around making money (within ethical bounds, of course). The closer to the bottom line my code is, the larger the sales and support team is around my code, and the more customers there are (real paying customers, not internal employees who like to be called customers) using my code, the better.

It may sound overly hard-nosed and cynical to some people, but I find it's just the opposite. The drive to make more money is the only thing that trumps every other petty motivation people follow at work. It trumps favoritism, empire building, and intra-office rivalries. It trumps good ol' boys networks and tech bro networks. Money brings people into the same room who would never normally be in a room together, and they do it willingly. It forces people in power to listen to small fries. While money corrupts on an individual level, it purifies on an institutional level. Its universally accepted value allows a variety of individual motives to flourish.

This seems to change once a company goes public and hits a certain size, as the flow of money becomes less and less tied to actual sales and consumer behavior and more and more based on financial engineering and stock price.
I understand your point of view, but also on an American side of things - if only we had this sort of regulatory clamp down as well. The congressional hearings from the CEO's of the tech giants really gave a window into how little culpability they have with regards to what they do, their business model and in general content moderation.
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I think this will be one of the most interesting fallout effects of this whole acquisition. Bethesda’s tech stack, as a developer, is basically worthless. But Id has plenty of tech, both tooling and engine, that are viable going into PS5/Xbox/new gen GPUs. If Microsoft does intend to push heavily for Xbox/Windows exclusives from all the acquired components the impact on DirectX as the standard 3D API is going to be pretty large. Also the internal transitions from current tooling and API will probably be prioritized to get early day titles ready for spring 2021 sales season (but surely for the holiday 2021 rush).
EU is attacking other companies because it doesn't provide environment for new tech giants to be created.

Ironic.

Though silicon valley has an extreme appeal, it is the de facto location for tech and this has become so cultural that EU will have to provide a serious incentive to stay in the EU because business wise there is 0 resons to not go to USA.
Twitter's been fairly open about their decisionmaking process here, so we know that's not the relevant factor - they say they don't label BBC because it has editorial independence.
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What we really need is for engineers who never wanted to remove them to begin with to be in charge.

Starting long enough ago to make the difference.
yes! This is all in browser. It's literally just ffmpeg compiled into wasm.

The wonder of Javascript right?
Easy to see someone who published secrets related to american imperialism, would publish secrets about the candidate that was viewed as imperialist at the time.
A com­puter pre­dicts your thoughts, creating im­ages based on them
20 years ago I was writing one of the first online endorsement engines for producers (independent insurance agents) to allow them to make endorsements on insurance policies over the internet rather than having to speak to an underwriter on the phone. We built a single web front end that was to be used by both the underwriters and the producers.

I remember showing off the role based permissions structure we had in place to allow an admin to control what sort of endorsements users could make. I quipped something like "this is so granular that we could even allow insureds to make endorsements to the policy." The response I got from the head underwriter was "we will never allow insureds to make endorsements on policies".

When was the last time you had to speak to an agent or underwriter on the phone to make changes to your insurance policy?

20 years ago was a very exciting time as many businesses were going online for the very first time. We were getting away from writing websites in C with CGI and using higher level languages like Perl, PHP, and ASP.
Reading this litany of technologically-enabled consumer achievements, I thought of David Graeber who visited the disappointment we sometimes feel for how things actually went from mid-century to now.

"[...]Where, in short, are the flying cars? Where are the force fields, tractor beams, teleportation pods, antigravity sleds, tricorders, immortality drugs, colonies on Mars, and all the other technological wonders any child growing up in the mid-to-late twentieth century assumed would exist by now? Even those inventions that seemed ready to emerge—like cloning or cryogenics—ended up betraying their lofty promises. What happened to them?" (https://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declini...)

Kinda makes your list seem like an indictment. Today's world is the world capital wants to make. When you do open your awareness to the scale of effort and the broadest results, technological optimism in the future is deflated.
Nope it’s good. Think about musicians, when they are junior everything is fun and interesting.

Once you train your ears and learn scales suddenly you start to hear music in terms of theory.

Do this long enough to become “senior” and suddenly a whole class of music is boring - like glue-code.

You need to find outlets for your experience and not just maintain open source projects - which are highly valuable but a huge pain in the ass.
I think that's a fair observation and I'm really excited about CHIP. The person driving CHIP at Apple was the person who originally hired me to work at Mozilla and I'm hopeful they might pull it off. The list of participants is impressive and just getting Apple, Google, Amazon and Samsung around the same table is an achievement (Samsung and Google are both members of W3C WoT groups but Samsung is the only one really participating). A couple of points though...

Firstly, CHIP is focused specifically on the connected home whereas the Web of Things has broader applications. My commercial interest in the Web of Things extends beyond the connected home.

Secondly, it's not yet clear to me whether CHIP will compete with or could complement the Web of Things.

On the face of it, being an IP-based protocol, CHIP could solve the same kinds of problems as the Web of Things in the connected home space. It could be potentially become ubiquitous on devices, gateways and cloud services. However, I wonder if the dependency on IPv6 may limit the adoption outside local networks initially. This may mean that devices themselves use CHIP instead of something like Zigbee or Z-Wave, but that IoT applications on gateways and in the cloud continue to use other technologies, like the Web of Things.

Either way I hope CHIP succeeds and I'm looking for ways to support CHIP on the WebThings Gateway.
> To be fair, the name of the state is in BBC itself.

As opposed to RT ?
Yes, that would be a shorter list than the things they abandon.
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Out of interest what skills are you talking about? I am an old fart by IT standards and i have come to realise that being able to come up with an algorithm randomly is not such a useful skill considering how infrequently we actually have to do it. Being able to say "no" and getting on with other developers are far more valuable than being able to solve a soduku puzzle once you have acquired a certain level of knowledge. After that it should be about managing complexity.
No matter what anyone's opinion on Assange is, it is clear that he still deserves a fair trial. And given the public's lack of access to the proceedings, as well as Nils Melzer's testimony, it is clear that that isn't what he is getting.
No Ethiopia, arguably the origin of coffee?
Not to mention that those CRUD apps have been done, exactly the same, 10000s of times before and 10000s of people are doing the same work you are doing now at this moment.

Everyone thinks they are productive but value is being burned all day, every day in most companies all over the world. The level of reuse is depressing and people, especially here, firmly believe we need to use the latest frontend and backend crap to rebuild what was working perfectly fine before.

More and more everything appears resume driven and to extract more hours billed or even higher LoC or commits per day. It is a nightmare and I refuse to play more and more. The over architecting for shit one off projects burning 10000$s a month ‘in the cloud’ so it probably, maybe it won’t crash with the 5 users per day it has using it.

Yes the tooling is better but the drive to use every latest tool and tech really makes no sense for almost any project.

Fitting anecdote; a company from LA was contracted to build a crud app for a big corp; they used react, typescript, node, express, aws, aws lambda, redis, dynamo and rds. For a crud app. They got $50k for it. For a crud app. Costs were through the roof running it as you need actual good people to run it. It failed a lot of times for such a setup as it was all the latest of the latest architecting wise. Brittle as hell even with all the tests and resume driven busywork. I rewrote it 1 php + bootstrap and jquery file in 1 day with a perl script to migrate the data and running on a 1.99$/mo server. Cheap, easy and no worries; handles a lot of traffic for the cost of a cup of coffee, does not need devops and they paid $2k for it to me. This is not the only story; microservices + serverless + the cloud really are excellent for making money, but as you say, no fun and in my experience, no benefit. Just added complexity.
also absolutely meaningless. it's essentially then going that when fines get handed out, they just get a warning because they tried.
Corruption cases are often like this. You look at the case itself and think "this money for that much risk?"

Ehud Olmert was removed from office as Israel's Prime Minister for taking bribes (in exchange for rezoning) years earlier as mayor of Jerusalem. The amounts seem very petty. About $25k IIRCC. We actually went from Prime Ministership to jail over it.

I suspect the reason these bribes always seem petty is that only a fraction are uncovered. These people take bribes regularly, sometimes for decades. They get busted for one or two.
> You can opt out, but it's a grueling, site-by-site process and they don't make it easy - often you have to do it several times. See https://inteltechniques.com/book7.html for some strategies. It's tortuous and should not be this way

I totally agree with you about how unreasonably burdensome the process is (it probably took at least a solid 40 hours of effort for me to get my results mostly scrubbed from publicly accessible sites a few years ago).

However, I think you have to put an asterisk next to "opt-out." In a lot of cases, your data might still be accessible in premium or specialized products (like those for law enforcement). I know of no law besides the California-specific CCPA that actually regulates opting-out, and a lot of these sites like like they're operated by sketchy people.
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Your post makes sense, but it's the complete opposite of what commenters from the EU normally say when it's the USA implementing protectionist policies. Any time we do it, there's a bunch of finger wagging and talk about how the USA is becoming a totalitarian state like China by trying to control how or what businesses operate in our country.
Love this. Thanks for sending folx to Namecheap for the registration :)
What's going on at the FAA is going on elsewhere with regulators as well, it's just that this one happens to be in the press a lot. IOW, they will not be going to prison. Do what you can in your role as a world citizen to support intelligent regulators with integrity that are empowered to represent the public's interest.
The precedents have been set. China has been forcing tech giants to play by their rules for years. The US is on the edge of banning TikTok and WeChat unless they have US ownership. Facebook is embroiled in legal battles in Australia. And tech giant taxes have long been an issue.

So this is set to escalate all round and the EU would be silly not to be prepared.
They could, but they don’t because the short term usually works out just fine for them.
>They're signaling that publishing secrets is a crime; that's an objective fact

Stating things are facts don't make them facts; thats an objective fact.

Anyway, I used to read Assange when he was more of a crypto/phreak, and he is, for lack of a better term, a bit of a fucking asshole.
That said though, and I'm going to make a controversial statement here, but one I think is truthful, but the biggest problem now with the Assange case is the Russia-gate propaganda added him to the list, so now a large swath of people who would normally support him now still off the cuff beleive he "helped Trump" by "working with the Russians" (or some variation thereof), and because the Russiagate narrative is now so entrenched in the left, it causes a huge cognitive dissonance where they are more likely to choose the mob/tribe over principle. It's worth noting that this can also be considered a survival technique in this cancel culture world, so I try not to judge too harshly, it just gets tiring hearing the disinfo about Assange repeated ad nauseum.
1) I trust the privacy laws and their level of enforcement in certain foreign jurisdictions more than the US.

2) I trust a company who’s entire value proposition is privacy more than one who’s value proposition is having a monopoly on the local fiber.
According to GDPR, the contact info for sending an access or deletion request must be provided in the Privacy Policy.

Under GDPR (Europe), if you send a request, the company must honor it unless they have reason to doubt your identity, in which case they must ask for follow-up. Under CCPA (California), they are only obligated to honor "verified" requests. There's a range of what counts as verifying, from just being able to log in to your account on the low end, up to providing 3 pieces of matching data on the high end.

The company is obligated to tell you what data they have. They are not obligated to go out of their way to make connections, though, so you're better served by providing as many identifiers as possible (like account numbers).
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That's a very specific meaning, like in terms of scaling maybe? But in terms of actually meaningful problems solved for end users... But there very nature large scale systems aren't very common, but everyone is chasing that unicorn startup which can serve 10 million users; so scalable APIs are more "practical" then simple workflows
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24544590
it was certified under Obama administration
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Search for Better blocker app on iOS. I think it is _better_ than nothing :-)
“Even though we are making more respirators than ever before and have dramatically increased production,” 3M spokeswoman Jennifer Ehrlich said, “the demand is more than we, and the entire industry, can supply for the foreseeable future.”
There was a thread about what you learn when you get older. One thing I have learned is that nostalgia is bunk. It is just selection bias and bad memory.

Music was not better back then, people were not any more polite, educated and rational, and trying to fix bug in some big-ball-of-mud visual basic codebase on a 640x480 screen without access to Google was not any more enjoyable than debugging an overdesigned React application is today.

If you enjoy a challenge and have a great team in a well-run organization, developing is enjoyable, then and now.
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I have to choose my ISP out of the ~10 that serve my house (this might be just one or two if I lived in the USA), and price and speed are also large factors in the choice. I can choose a VPN from hundreds, even after I've filtered by acceptable prices and speeds - in other words because they actually compete on privacy.
"but users care more about the browser features"
Underlying engine affect features.

This for example.

"Bugs
Chrome, Edge, Brave, Firefox – all of them use mobile WebKit on iOS. But for some reason, they still occasionally show bugs and visual glitches that aren’t present in Safari. The two I see most often: horizontal jiggle while scrolling and sudden left-right margins added if I switch back-and-forth from the browser."

Why it's only happen to other browsers? Can these dev fix it when they don't have access to underlying engine source?
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This is the best reply on this whole thread.
Maybe you should start by surveying the ethics board, and then just pay them $500 to find it ethical. Bootstrapping.
you should release vulkan for proton / linux users i think
Seems like an advertisement for a book to get access to the content. The book is authored by the same person who wrote the article and the poster is new. I flagged it