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My CTO has been researching this (large 30K emp. software company) and the current consensus seems to indicate that ~60% of the workforce is expected to continue to work remote. Offices will be redesigned as collaboration spaces, where (when it becomes safe) people will converge from time to time for specific activities, but the follow-up and rest of the work will be remote.

I fully support this, and I to a degree, I've been doing it for 6 years already, and I find it extremely effective.

And no, I would not take a pay cut. Companies pay for what I bring to the table. As long as they get what they want from me, it should be irrelevant where am I.
lmao everything you say is completely wrong this is stupid as shit
Anyone else getting an error in Safari when trying to visit the site?

"Safari can't open the page 'https://plausible.io/self-hsted-web-analytics" because Safari can't establish a secure connection to the server 'plausible.io'.
So you've retreated from "actually there was no harm" to "maybe CS majors don't care if they are paid substantially less than they could be due to collusion in the labor market."

I'm not going to continue responding.
there 's nothing to apologize for. Its understanable we all have different biases on the issue (I'm a solopreneur so not particularly inclined to side with VCs either).

Concentrating tech in a few companies in a small area may have been good for that small ecosystem but a lot of people feel left out. A lot more also feel that tech has stagnated, largely because those companies have saturated the attention levels of users and are just regurgitating slightly modified versions of the same products. As for whether they are unbeatable -- they are less beatable today than they were 20 years ago, as the market has evolved and consolidated and the low hanging fruit have been reaped, as happens in all new industries. In my view the incumbents are as old and established as car brands or banks -- the internet grew so fast that it's already old.
Do you have any stats for that? The stats now seem very different from what was happening in April and May. The cumulative CFR is also dropping - but obviously time cohort data must be already much lower.
Alberta still has native 'pack rats' which could perhaps be mistaken for 'true rats' (the sort Alberta is ostensibly free of.) They are still actively fighting them, it's a constant battle I suppose, but at least in theory there aren't any permanent breeding populations of true rats in Alberta. You're not even allowed to own a pet rat there.
Since this appears to be a hosted service (and leaving aside the feasibility of this aspect), it absolutely needs a fairly detailed About page. Who's behind the service, where it is hosted, what the privacy policy is like, etc.
The new icons are terrible. Every icon looks the same. I want to open an app fast, instead of figuring out what the icon is.

The design of the logos are not consistent.

Gmail and Meet- Blue, red, yellow, green

Calender - Blue, green, red, yellow

Drive and Docs - Blue, green, yellow, red
I’m saying framing the climate crisis as “lost” is a bad way to gain support for positive change.
I was hoping to see more about what happened to Nanobox after Digital Ocean aquired them. I thought what they had was really well done and was excited to see where they took it.
Agreed! https://xkcd.com/927/
It's important to clarify that you are mixing up two geographic regions here. You seem to mostly be referring to the deep south (especially since you refer to Atlanta in a later comment), which according to generally popular definitions is physically distinct from the midwest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_South

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States
Elixir/Phoenix is my hobby. I build personal projects on it.

I was able to find a few jobs, but not a ton (this was a couple years ago). The jobs that are out there all wanted experience but obviously that's hard to do with a new platform. I got an interview with one company that I thought understood that I only had a few months experience as a hobbyist (which means I'll be doing a lot of Googling even for common APIs) but they rejected me. At this point my experience with professional Elixir has not been positive.

I love the language but I'll probably just stay a hobbyist, at least until things change.
I don’t think it’s possible to claim that you have the ‘correct’ source of information.

I’m not saying that your sources are worth nothing, but there is reason to doubt that they tell the whole story.

Claiming the central government didn’t seem to do anything to try to hide things, and blaming it on the regular government seems rather blithe.

It is well reported m that a doctor who identified the virus early on was forced to lie and claim he was mistaken.

In an environment where forcing lies is a normal part of government operation, we just can’t know how many other doctors were prevented from speaking out.

We also know that the CCP was spreading the story that the virus was planted by the US military.

Are you really so certain that your timeline is accurate?
Thanks, very timely! I'm in the middle of reading the sequel/sidequel, Echopraxia, right now.
I have a family(kid, partner, dogs) and just relocated from the Midwest back to Seattle.

I couldn't stand living in the Midwest and lasted just under a year. I grew up there, and have lived in a couple larger cities throughout the midwest. The weather is absolutely terrible and if I lost my remote tech job I'd be SOL until I could find another one. It is harder to find other parents/families/friends with things in common with, as well.

Another thing people don't talk about is the crime. Here in Seattle we have a lot of crime but not a lot of violence. In larger midwestern cities there are huge poor black neighborhoods, even entire parts of cities encompassing many neighborhoods, where the violence and suffering is incredible. Years ago, I used to live on Troost Ave in Kansas City, for example. Troost itself can be dangerous but is mostly fine- go a half a mile east and drive around and it is almost unrecognizable as America as someone who grew up white and did not have to see it. Bullets literally went through the window of the library my wife worked at.

I think either leaving or wanting to leave or big cities or job hubs/writing articles about leaving big cities or job hubs is something that is "in vogue" right now.

Probably a symptom of expensive housing and a pandemic that forced everyone to go remote. People, for some reason, love to dog on big cities/west coast but these coastal cities have undeniable positives to living in them; Weather, nature/mountains/ocean/public lands, interesting work, high pay, cultural stuff, etc- all things I want my child to grow up with even if it is expensive.
They force manufacturers to accept returns of unsold product and have met 30-90 day payment terms. The effect is that these large retailers don't buy the product until after it's sold.

This is false. Net payment terms don't change who holds title to the product, just when the money changes hands.

Additionally, retailers only force manufacturers to accept returns of unsold product for products that overwhelming failed to sell. They don't return small batches of unsold product.

They also just rent shelf space to companies and have little if anything to do with what is stocked there and how it's priced.

True, but this is such a small portion of the retail market that it would be a rounding error of a rounding error. Generally, most retail companies don't do this.
I think if you look at the consistent development history, you can use that as an indicator. Internal teams host it on Kubernetes (Linux), Service Fabric (Windows), and other places. The "Orleans at Microsoft" talk from August covers where teams are hosting it and how they're using it: https://youtu.be/KhgYlvGLv9c
While it's true that the market ultimately determines pricing, the fact that manufacturers can stuff larger amounts of RAM into the newer equivalent SKUs means the price per GB for fast memory would still be driven down. This is even possible if new unit prices are higher, i.e. if this year's "entry-level" SKU costs a little more than last year's but now has more capacity.
Funny how nobody says this in relation to food safety : those power hungry bureaucrats with their nonsense E. coli meat recalls. But they _do_ say it in relation to anti-pollution regulations (e.g. smoking), and environmental protections. What's the difference I wonder... Oh yes, whether or not big business is disadvantaged. Big Meat needs strong food safety regulations otherwise everyone would buy their meat from local trusted sources.
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The question is too broad, but along the lines of Norvig's answer...

There's a particular micro-expression I sometimes notice with people who are working on a software problem. I notice it when something goes wrong unexpectedly.

People who aren't particularly talented at SW development, for a brief instant, give a facial expression of disgust when something crashes or behaves incorrectly. People who are awesome at development, instead, have a look of amusement like they're actually looking forward to see what happened. These facial "micro-expressions" are really fast and subtle, you really have pay attention and it doesn't always work but I've seen it enough times to believe it shows something.

I think this goes back to the impulse to "improve" things that Norvig mentions. You really have to enjoy the act of programming, to be willing to improve on it. It's a kind of feedback loop. Just MHO.
Sure, markets are hard to beat with central control... But if the market is sufficiently consolidated, it's got a lot more in common with central control than what we would call a free market.

Markets work because people can use purchasing power to solve their problems. When you have only one (or two basically identical) players in a market, there's no ability to use purchasing power to signal that one approach or another is better for your needs. Part of the point is that the best system might involve many approaches for different kinds of end user. What we currently have in many situations is people's problems are being ignored because they don't have any real alternatives.

Simultaneously, Facebook (for example) is ultimately incentivized to solve the problems of their paying users (ad firms and political advertisers) over their non-paying users (humans). They've aggressively bought the competition which ensures that remains the reality.

Political regulation of markets exists to ensure that the interests of the polis are ultimately served by businesses, precisely because markets have MANY failure modes that prioritize other interests to the detriment of overall societal health.
> Industrialized farming is only so efficient because we sacrifice everything from ecological sustainability to taste to get that efficiency.

It gets worse. The fiscal payoffs of those productivity gains went overwhelmingly to capital holders, and many negative externalities (like massive abuse of antibiotics) produced by the system help maintain a dysfunctional US healthcare system where the extractive value again overwhelmingly goes to capital holders. I'm a lowercase capital holder myself, so I'm empathetic to their interests, but this systems design screams fragility to me.

Unfortunately, I have no general prescriptives, only what I'm doing for my own situation.
Clearly someone is doing it because they continue to make tweets and occasional blog posts. I don't see a problem.
Of course it is not new when I was in primary school teachers use to tell us that in remote places in Australia there is school over the radio. But I always wondered why over the radio when already at the time you could do it over the internet using email instructions. But I guess not all people had a computer and internet connection in Australia, and building internet infrastructure all over the place is challenging. To this day half of the world still doesn't have internet connection.
Washington University in St. Louis?
Thats why i m already hoarding Brawndo stocks.
I was in the same boat until someone made me feel dumb after I smugly said why I moved from aws over to Heroku for a project. Too late for me though on this project.

Have fun tonight!
Know when to seek out assistance from others. I would much rather spend 30 minutes in cooperation with others than multiple hours by my self.

Work smart, not hard.
> We should not be arguing that that nothing good comes out of surveillance.

The problem is that we, the people, can never know what, if any, good is coming out of surveillance. Attorney General Barr admitted that in one of his speeches arguing for back doors in encryption. The government cannot reveal what is being discovered through surveillance without disclosing sources and methods that it (understandably) wants to keep concealed from adversaries. But without that information we and our elected representatives cannot exercise proper oversight. And without proper oversight any such capability will be abused.
Simple explanation. It is the difference between "things have mixed so much that everyone is your ancestor somehow" and "on a strict matrilineal or patrilineal descent, everyone winds up at the same thing".

In the first the path goes through both fathers and mothers. This is easier to achieve, and so you get to it more recently. The second is harder and so happened longer ago.
thanks! from our experience and testing, most website visitors say no to give tracking consent / storing cookies (up to 90+%) so this was a good balance between making something that's compliant with regulations and that's providing useful data for many use cases.
What's more reasonable:

1) That I'm confusing the Deep South and the Midwest

or

2) That I'm commenting on a tendency of people to discount people's individual experiences because they don't like the idea that a particular region treats different people worse than other regions
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Saving $3500 is a powerful motivator for a lot of people.

I was trying to find a used/rent/borrow arrangement for a device called a log arch a few years ago, to help with a landscaping project. This is how I discovered just how many people have learned to basic to intermediate welding to avoid the labor costs of having someone else do low-volume work for them. Especially out in the boonies.
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I know.

It was a joke that targeted the argument: "You know that old tech is still in use? Look at all the COBOL used in industry XYZ."
Cool. More players joining the "focus on code, not infrastructure" arena. I like it!
In Minneapolis or the close burbs or the fancy farther out burbs (Minnetonka, Wayzata) a 6 br lakefront house in not-great condition is over $1M. If it's a nice house, good shape, way over $1M. But you can go 30 minutes and change outside Minneapolis and get a nice 6 br lakefront for like $750k.
This may be what he means? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterstart
It's a big country I guess, and I don't mean that to be sarcastic and snarky. That's usually the disconnect. There are places between the poles of NYC to Madison, WI, York, PA, and other suburban hell. And, they also aren't millennial ex-pat havens like Austin/Nashville, where the "culture" is a strip of craft breweries and expensive pizza places and basically Brooklyn 2.0. When you throw in cities with more access to the West's geography, you start to see why places like Denver and Bozeman got huge (and joined millennial ex-pat land).

So what do these in-between places offer, besides the cost of living? You tend to get off the beaten path nature where the cost of living in the city means you can actually afford a vacation home (Minneapolis and Chicago get the great lakes northern coast lines), funky college towns that grew some tech talent for various reasons and are college-y and by great natural areas (old Bozeman, old Austin, old Boulder, current Ft. Collins), and lastly I'd say genuine immigrant population and their subcultures, and food to match. There are legitimate Little Italys out there, but they just left NYC because it's too expensive (or also refugee resettlement plans). Minneapolis, Syracuse, parts of Tennessee, parts of TX that aren't Austin, etc.

You throw a tech salary into that mix, and it becomes really fascinating.
Please lay out how any government profits from this. Consequences of COVID measures currently include, among others:

- reduced tax income, vastly more debt

- frustration within the population

- revelation of systemic flaws

All of these make a government look bad. No matter how true or untrue, the current government will be held directly responsible.

I don't see any instance of emergency laws being abused in a way that was impossible or inconvenient beforehand. Terrorism has already done its part here.

So where are your examples?
Ultimately this is a bit of a rant about why MySQL didn't bother changing the TIME type to support an elegant maximum value of 1,024 hours instead of 838.

But, seriously? Who cares? It's not even close to an extra order of magnitude of range. The type is obviously meant to be used for time values that have a context of hours within a day, supporting a few days as headroom... so supporting 1,024 instead of 838 is pointless -- if you're getting anywhere even close to the max value, you probably shouldn't be using this type in the first place.

And yes, it's probably best not to change it for backwards compatibility. Can I imagine a case where it could break something? No, not off the top of my head. But it probably would break some application somewhere. And for such a widely deployed piece of critical foundational infrastructure, being conservative is the way to go.

Nothing about this seems WTF at all, except for the author's seeming opinion that elegant, power-of-two ranges ought to trump backwards compatibility with things that probably made sense at the time.
Yeah, I mean it's fair that I haven't lived in every midwest city in America. But I've lived in 3 for multiple years each and I disliked them all for more or less the same reasons. Obviously it all just boils down to what you want out of life, so at a certain point it just becomes "agree to disagree"
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How about support for RTL languages/books? There are a number of typing practice sites that allow you to use custom texts, but I haven't seen any that work well with RTL. A dream feature would be to be able to upload RTL epub files and type away!

This is the most beautiful and pleasant typing practice experience I've ever had.
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Another example of Tesla qwality. They're catching up to Government Motors, all right. (FWIW, I admire Tesla's innovation, but they don't make very good cars.)
What's reasonable is that you're doing both things simultaneously and probably in the process getting a lot of complicated reactions because of imprecise use of terminology.
Other comments indicate that the PR department became the external relations department.
> Mitsubishi's iMiev (2009) was the first EV to sell more than 10,000 units.

Wow, hadn't realized that one sold that well; I had it filed in my head with the Smart EQ. I'd consider all the others on that list niche impractical devices, though. So the first practical one was probably the iMiev, not the Leaf, then.
I think PaaS, autodeployed from a branch, is the best system for most orgs.
Musk actively endorsed a personality cult around him myself as part of his PR.

Maybe if he hadn't done that he'd get different kind of coverage.
I would be generally suspicious of people who are telling you that no one is out to get you and that your own observations are wrong.
Yeah, that was supposed to sound tongue-in-cheek, but actually distorts the meaning of the rest of the post. I wish I didn't add that example and kept only the first part of the post. Thanks for pointing that out. (Now, I wish I kept only the bullet points)

> The kind of "doing nothing" that helps with creative thinking is very different from the kind of "doing nothing" that results from laziness.

I agree, but that's not how I read the parent post. I'm curious to see how you'd describe this distinction though.
Are you a “different” person while on Ritalin? My wife’s a teacher and these days a lot of kids are on Ritalin. She says the kids that “need” it are more manageable when taking it, but it does change their personality. They are less... “lively”.
It's Pittsburgh, not Pittsburg.

The "is Pittsburgh midwestern?" debate is irrelevant since the article does not mention Pennsylvania. Also, increasing tech hiring by 100% in Pennsylvania would be really hard since the state also has Philadelphia and because Pittsburgh's tech scene has been strong for years.
The "Big Ten Academic Alliance" does more funded research than the Ivy League and the UC system combined [1].

[1] https://www.btaa.org/docs/default-source/reports/btaa-annual...
hmm that's weird! just checked and seems to work all fine. no HN hug of death today :)

do you perhaps run any adblocker or something like that?

the link is: https://plausible.io/self-hosted-web-analytics
The pricing is crazy!!
Yeah parts of St. Louis past the bridge/river and going west were out of this world. Hard to believe it's the same country.
In addition to tolerance of frustration and tenacity (as has been mentioned several times here already), I'll go with being good at the old Sesame Street game "One of these things is not like the other, One of these things is not the same" - I feel like I'm playing that game a lot when I'm debugging.
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