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Which is where social safety nets, socialized medicine, and a stronger minimum wage come into play, but this same economic think tank as argued against all of them.

They've been on record, numerous times, arguing against benefits to the poor/poorest, and now suddenly we've meant to believe that they're looking out for the poor when it also benefits the wealthiest for the poor to sacrifice themselves?

Seems more than a little disingenuous if you look at whom we're discussing here.
I believe the citizens of those countries might respectfully disagree.

The US is somewhat absolutist relative to the global average on this topic (and even the US isn't complete freedom of speech---pornography law exists, as do various extremely tight constraints on pedophilia imagery).
> Then, give them a problem. The one I gave for years is to write a program that plays every possible tic-tac-toe game, and then prints the number of valid games.

There must be people he interviewed, they should be able to answer your question.
What are the highest paid programming languages in 2020?
Other than one dissenting view in 2014, that page indeed does document decades of enforcement of the Indian penal code, which is very clear, and cited on that page.

"Whoever (a) by words, either spoken or written, or by signs or by visible representations or otherwise, promotes or attempts to promote, on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, caste or community or any other ground whatsoever, disharmony or feelings of enmity, hatred or ill-will between different religious, racial, language or regional groups or castes or communities, or (b) commits any act which is prejudicial to the maintenance of harmony between different religious, racial, language or regional groups or castes or communities, and which disturbs or is likely to disturb the public tranquillity, . . . shall be punished with imprisonment which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both."

That is without a doubt very explicit and much further reaching than any European legislation. And from the cases actually given in that article also practised as such.

Just to take one example, but there are many more in that very article

In 2007, R.V. Bhasin's Islam - A Concept of Political World Invasion by Muslims was banned, and house raided, in Maharashtra on grounds that it outrages the feelings of Muslim section of society.[12][13][14] In January 2010, the Bombay High upholds the ban imposed by the Government of Maharashtra.[15]
Definitely not a smear job.
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This article is paywalled, which makes it difficult to read more than a few paragraphs.
But surely that would affect both populations (locked down/not locked down) equally
So it's a 5-6 month training window with a trial period upon hire (which most jobs have). That's similar to for example a Comcast installer.

I have no experience with the specific training and so on but it sounds a little short/rudimentary compared to a lot of other places.
Perhaps people should go elsewhere (such as historical sources) to get information on the history of the holocaust.
From the original thread [1], which people should probably read:

> The fact it had no signal at the time of the tamper safeguard being triggered meant that remote recovery wasn't an option, even when we moved it into the open. Idk, an extra layer of theft protection I suppose.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/j9qn...
Here are a whole bunch of problems we are having:

- My home/life balance is shot to shit. I can't just leave work at work
anymore. And now I have a toddler and a dozen other distractions as part of my workday.

- Also, I am not reading anything anymore. It turns out my commute was the only time I got any reading done, and that 40 mins of cooldown between work and home was actually important in some way to my personal life.

- Any meeting virtually takes about half-again as long.

- Sure, no one is dropping in to bug you. But we are now missing deadlines like crazy because people will just work on whatever and never bother to check in on each other. It turns out that 16 hours on a project someone could have told you was about to be canned is less productive than 5 minutes of someone dropping in on you and telling you that it's about to be canned.

- Burnout is crazy high because now nobody cares about your life and how you are doing. Some people effectively lost all of their friends overnight.

- The quiet, conscientious people who make up the bread and butter of an organization will never have the assertiveness to be heard in a virtual setting. The only people who are consistently getting things done are the bullies.

- Promotions and advancements will be a shitshow. No one knows what an effective employee looks like right now, even less a manager.

- In the case this does workout then corporate has is considering hiring people from wherever they are cheapest since there are no geographic constraints.

I can't speak to everyone's experience, but as someone who has shifted back and forth in my career between technical and business roles, I can confirm that I was much more productive at home when working on technical problems, and much MUCH less effective when working on business problems.
Of course I can't. I thought that the onus of proving is in the court of the ones making a statement.
Am I the only person shocked there is absolutely no reference to scientific work in their text?

For instance, a question: what do we do of people without preexisting conditions that recover very badly from the infection:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/09/brain-fog-the-...
This might make sense if medical experts consistently made accurate predictions, but they often seem to be wrong, and have to change their positions after the fact.

One could go as far to say that it is irresponsible to give their peripatetic claims more credence than they seem to historically deserve, especially when it's clear that there are legitimate trade-offs.
For a while there it seemed like people were getting more and more computer-savvy. They knew what files formats are. They liked having big USB drives. They got excited over faster internet speeds. You could make the argument that Linux was going to make the CLI mainstream again.

That's dead now. People don't care. They buy a phone because it has a higher resolution screen and then run it in low-res because that's the default and they don't know the difference. Kids in California fail AP tests because they don't know what a file format is and try to submit HEIC images to a web form that only takes JPEG and PNG.
Apple on designing the A14 Bionic for the iPad Air and beyond
Political change of this magnitude happens because different people are voting, not because the same person changed their mind. Literally it’s because the old people died before they could pass 100% of their bigotry to the next generation.
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> This is definitely not true, especially if you co-locate your data fetching in your reducers, which is a common pattern.

How can it be definitely not true, when you have to say "especially"? Most code I've seen (including the official docs) don't data fetch in reducers. But even then, I'm not sure what you mean.

> It also provides a single, centralized store instead of needing many contexts...

Which you can very well do with useContext and useState.
But it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money from it
Sure, but surely you can be a fascist without also being violent? I mean surely you can be a communist without supporting violent revolutions...
Yeah exactly. I think it’s interesting to compare and contrast the two countries that have done best with this: China and New Zealand. China is high control and high trust (mostly) and well controlled border , New Zealand is like mid to low control but very high trust, and it has a perfectly defined and controlled border.

US is (broadly) low control, low trust, net importer with large land borders and neighboring countries by sea, so it’s a much harder problem even if you had consistent messaging and planning from the top.
As a software engineer your best bet would be start or join and build a software startup that looks promising as a principle owner or vested employee. The problem is picking what problem to solve and also getting the resources ($$) to do the job. Also, the skill set for software engineer doesn't necessarily overlap with the skill set necessary to build a company. Beware that you can sink 5-10 years in such ventures with nothing but (sub-market) salary in the end. Most people can't afford to do this more than once.

I once knew a guy who was an HP engineer who bailed on HP and went through two different startups that failed. He said the problem with engineers is they think that success is about the technology but the lesson he learned is that it also about marketing and strategy which the failed startups didn't budget enough for and had poor execution plans.

FWIW, many of the people on the "richest people" lists like Fortune, made their money through real estate. The main reason is because real estate is inherently leveraged via the mortgage so if you make some good moves your return is multiplied. But of course with leverage comes risk and those lists suffer from survivor bias -- meaning they are the people that never flamed out in a bad market and lost everything because they could not pay the mortgage, which is common.
I'm on my phone but there should be a lot on YouTube. Here's one such company:

https://www.orcanorway.info/services/snorkeling-with-orcas

No prior experience or training needed so not just for professionals. You just jump in with pretty basic snorkeling equipment.
>If they are facing an opponent like that then call in the FBI, who generally have much better training, or ATF (no idea about their training).

The FBI doesn't answer the phone when the ATF calls anymore. They learned that lesson the hard way.
Except that Congress is leaning on FB right now to remove "fake news". Facebook's sudden interest in removing content is inextricably tied to censorship until the government stops pressuring.
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> Send your work to humdingerb (at) gmail and bitigchi (at) me.

What domain is the second email address talking about?
Let's be real. The President of the United States said, several months ago, publicly, that people should try injecting bleach.

There's an entire group of politicians in the U.S. irresponsibly discouraging basic use of masks.

That is what the parent poster is talking about.

What is difficult to understand about this?
The private bathroom has been a completely underrated aspect of WFH.

I can poop outdoors on backpacking trips using natural materials to wipe, I can poop in busy airports and I can poop in stinking 100 degree portapotties.

But I have a really hard time pooping in gleaming offices where all my coworkers can see me walking into the bathroom and emerging 10 minutes later. I hate it!
Define "pretty good" how you'd like, but to me both statements can be true.
> VSCode, Edge, .NET Core, WSL, DX12

All things generally loved by the community (except Edge).

> deliberately crippling cross-platform Vulkan drivers

I find nothing doing a quick search for this. Do you have any evidence of this?

> like the telemetry and enforced upgrades

Neither of which have proven harmful to their users, other than the inconvenience of a forced restart. I'd rather have forced upgrades than the mayhem that existed before.

How do these have ANYTHING to do with Microsoft from 20 years ago?
Desktop Linux still sucks.

I used various flavors like Ubuntu for the past 8 years and finally got tired of the half-finished UIs, random bugs that were never fixed, and breaking issues with WINE when I upgraded (and had to spend hours of my free time trying to figure it out).

This, in addition to all sorts of driver issues over the years where I had to download test drivers and compile it myself to get it working has made me never look back.

My new setup is a windows 10 machine with the latest version of Ubuntu running (command line only) on Vmware workstation.

I get all of the stability of a windows machine and can still run all of my favorite Linux apps.

The Windows subsystem for Linux also works pretty well for most things.

I also wonder if it has to do with the anti-commercial stance from most people in the Linux community. Besides a couple of niche apps, most open source is not polished in any way and since many OSS developer have day jobs, have no real incentive to fix a specific bug/issue.
> If an employer fears bad press, perhaps it's because the thing their employee did is unpopular and their business is built on public perception?

> I mean, we can keep digging, but at the end of the day the story keeps resolving to "Someone said something people didn't like and there are consequences."

I see your argument here, in theory. Two things make me uneasy with it: lack of perfect information; and the power of disinformation.

That is, "unpopular" and "someone said something people didn't like" can't be taken for granted. A small vocal minority, especially one skilled with social media, can make something appear more unpopular than it actually is. And few people are equipped to gauge what the reality is (accurate polling, eg, can be problematic even for those with large resources, let alone a small business owner).

It is easy, then, to force the employer to make a decision about a risk they cannot gauge accurately, and which is made to appear much larger than they would view it if they knew the true average opinions of their customers. Couple this with most people's natural risk aversion, and you have a genuine problem that you can't write off as "well, employers are just finally being forced to respond to the will of the people."
Your comment is strange...

1. ephimetheus: The only people who have a problem with these laws are bad people with evil intent

2. me: I just looked and there are a lot of people voicing problems with these laws who are good and have noble intent

3. you: But are they prioritizing the issue enough or are they just saying stuff?

...Uh, what is the argument you're trying to make here? That if people aren't making enough of an "effort" in some way, that their critiques should not be taken seriously? Maybe you're serious, but it sure sounds like an extreme moving of goal posts to me. Presumably I would then link to you some activist group or other pushing to change these laws -- I expect you'd then come back with some variation of "oh well, that's not really trying /hard enough/, look at all the /other things/ they care about more." Just... very strange.

If you don't think sticking your neck out as a prominent intellectual like Chomsky or Hitchens to defend neo-nazi's right to lie in the public square.. if you don't think that constitutes a "serious effort" in and of itself, then YES I guess you can go further and look at Human Rights Watch's statements or whatever else.

I doubt you will. But maybe other readers of this exchange will leave better for reading my comment here.
Damn, these are the same people who came up with that ridiculous antibody study which fueled the crackpot "widespread immunity" theory? They must have no shame to keep pushing their contrarian covid takes.
> it's a risk that exists at the back of your mind constantly when you drive an expensive vehicle

Perhaps due to poor risk analysis or value.

Statistically the Honda Civic and Toyota Camry are much more likely to be stolen; stealing an expensive vehicle is problematic in 1) Security Features 2) Conspicuous to drive 3) Conspicuous to fence 4) Insurance spends more money to find it 5) (in some cases) difficulty to drive.
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You are clear example of this: https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/leave_my_br...
Imagine what happens when you can't jump on the planned obsolescence bandwagon.
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It is much easier to use pharmacological means for that.
You don't fight bacterial pneumonia with good discipline and stern words, you use antibiotics. What will ultimately get out of this problem are drugs (and vaccines).

All these non pharmacological interventions are just bandaids.
As does any business.
There should be a major distinction between programmers and Engineers.

As an engineer that made the transition to programming, many interviews I was told Engineering isn't programming. I had to take an entry level programming job (and pay).

And the opposite is True too. Programmers are not Engineers. In Engineering you are expected to prove everything and there generally is only 1 correct solution(given cost, quality, and time specifications). That's generally the scientific method approach.

In programming, outside of algorithm efficiency, you are taught to listen to Authority and follow best practices or standard practices. This isn't science, it's art.

Programming pays better and is in higher demand, so I'm not hating on programming. But these are distinctly different professions and ways of thinking.
"Spending many hours on doing software development does, in fact, make you better at software development than someone who, ceteris paribus, spent that same time playing video games."

By that logic the oldest developers should be the best of all. But that is not true. Some are great, some are average and some are still bad even after a life time of practice.
Politicians, journalists and the general population make inaccurate claims all the time in both pro-lockdown and anti-lockdown stances.
Even if you do dramatically reduce the spread of the virus, that doesn't do anything to solve the problem of lack of immunity. Worse yet with nobody getting exposed to the virus, it will be significantly more difficult to test a vaccine.

Overall, this strategy does not seem plausible. It would require participation of every single country in the world otherwise illegal immigrants from Mexico/Cuba/elsewhere could just re-introduce the virus.
This is false.

According to the reddit thread [1], the anti-theft tamper safeguard (no network required) was triggered. Since it was triggered when there was no network connectivity, network connectivity could not be used re-enable the car.

So, no network connectivity was used to disable or enable the car.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/j9qn...
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If you want to make portable software that can run on POSIX-compliant platforms, it'll be considerably harder than writing software using Xcode and Swift. There are tools that make it less hard, but when NeXT was created, X was not what it is today, Wayland didn't exist, and they didn't need a network-transparent windowing system because the fashionable model of the day was client-server. More than that, by dropping most of X, the memory requirements were much lower and UI lag was minimal. These were probably the guiding principles for pretty much every decision they made.

Much like Microsoft, Apple doesn't want macOS or iOS apps to run on anything other than their platform. For any OS, the winning strategy to gain market is encouraging porting to the platform and discouraging porting away from it.
> Application state should not be dependent on components

Sorry, I don't follow. When using Context, how does the application state become dependent on Components any more than it is with Redux? You can accomplish pretty much the same thing with far less code.

Can you provide an example?
> Distractions and being able to get away from the din of the open plan are much easier to do when you are simply not in the din of open plan.

Our company considered getting rid of cubicles a few years ago and there was almost an open revolt. People ended up accepting drastically smaller cubicles as a compromise and everyone ended up pretty happy.

I can confirm, having spent time at Microsoft, that Microsoft provides a very proportion of offices to their workers.
>- Personality is way more important than he makes it out to be. It can't just be broken down into 3-5 factors. This isn't a scientific process.

Eh, some would argue the opposite... (Probably hundreds or even thousands of psychologists & academic professors of psychology)

"In psychological trait theory, the Big Five personality traits, also known as the five-factor model (FFM) and the OCEAN model, is a suggested taxonomy, or grouping, for personality traits,[1] developed from the 1980s onwards."

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

"Abstract We demonstrate that Big-Five personality traits are stable for working-age adults
over a four-year period."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01651...

"The five-dimensional structure was robust across major regions of the world. Trait levels were related in predictable ways to self-esteem, sociosexuality, and national personality profiles."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002202210629729...

"Personality was related to career success controlling for general mental ability and, though adulthood measures of the Big Five traits were more strongly related to career success than were childhood measures, both contributed unique variance in explaining career success."

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1744-6570....
Consensus seems to lean toward this being satire. However, that’s actually part of the problem with online discussions of interviewing right now: Everyone loves to read and write about how developer interviewing is flawed, but no one wants to go out on a limb and make suggestions about how to improve it. It’s easy to be a critic and it’s fun to be smugly dismissive of those companies who rejected you after long interviews, but it’s hard to actually step into the hiring manager position and find the best candidate without disappointing some people along the way. Writing satire or criticism is an easy way to win clicks and views because you’re not going to alienate people with the tried and true “all interviewing is bad” claim.

Sadly, many of the implied alternatives to coding interviews are becoming a regression toward credentialism: People who have already secured good jobs, impressive internships, or prestigious university degrees would much rather coast on those credentials than be challenged for a few hours during an interview. This feels good if you’ve already made it or you grew up with the right connections, but it’s far from ideal you’re a promising developer who doesn’t yet have the right credentials on your resume to unlock the job. To many people, the coding interviews is a chance to break the traditional mold and land a job that would have been out of reach otherwise.
Thank you very much for the update!
I've noticed this too. In many cases it's purely down to poor marketing/copywriting, but I think in some cases it's because they've specifically tailored the language to their target customer.

If the language is compelling to the people who actually buy the product (who may be quite nerdy/technical themselves), then it doesn't matter if it's confusing to the average person.
Sure, I'm aware of this and have been flown in to various locales to be grilled in interviews that started before it was really light out and finished after dusk (late in the year to be fair). My point isn't that companies do this, it's that the giveaway was that interviews must be like this that gave it away.

On a personal note I'll add it's even more exhausting when you schedule these types of interviews at different companies back to back on consecutive days so you don't have to keep flying in for each company.
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