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It's been a few years, but prior to that I went through a period where I worked I did a job search 3 times in a little more than 2.5 years. Here's the process:

1. I start by reaching out to people I know - bosses or teammates I've enjoyed working with, recruiters that have proved trustworthy and so on. People who now me and who have worked with me before know the value I bring, even though I don't really excel in any one area. (Early on in my career, this wasn't literally "people I know," this would be more connections through my school.)

2. Since a lot of interview technical questions skew towards Stuff We Learn in University, I usually skim over my college and grad school text books. That way, if someone throws something at me that I haven't really dealt with in 12 years, I can at least have enough freshness in my mind that I can problem solve through it.

3. I practice problems from a "programming challenges" book like the one by Skiena. I do some of these at a computer. However, since many companies do coding challenges on a whiteboard and these are timed, I try to recreate this by doing some coding problems with pencil and paper while timing myself. Whether or not it is a good idea for companies to do coding problems on a whiteboard is an interesting question, but in the course of a job search, but this is the world we live in. Writing programs while timed is particularly stressful, but by practicing beforehand I find I'm able to adapt to the stress better.

4. A lot of the value we provide (both as experienced engineers and as jack-of-all-trades) is best demonstrated through historical examples, and many companies ask about historical examples. So I make sure that I've gone through the important projects I've worked on in my career, and can talk about the situation I was in for the project, what I did, and what the result of the project was.

5. It's hard to know who looks at what in an application submission, but for any company I apply to I write a cover letter explaining why my unique set of skills makes me a good fit for the particular role I'm applying for. As a hiring manager, I saw people clearly copy and paste other cover letters (e.g., I was in advertising and I'd get cover letters ending "... and that's why I want to work in finance"). As an applicant, I write each of these from scratch, going through each item in the job description and saying something very brief about how that's a thing I've done before. (Earlier in my career, I would use examples from undergrad and grad school.) I've generally had pretty good response rates with this strategy.

6. Across all steps, I work in as much as I comfortably can that as a jack of all trades the value I provide is not that I can implement solutions in the area I'm hired for soon after being hired (although, I can), it's that I can handle the uncertainty that comes in many environments, and I can talk about examples where I've done this in the past. Some companies appreciate the value this brings, but some do not. The ones that don't will probably under value you.

I hope it helps!
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In a strange twist of irony... This was what copyright was meant to do: promote a diverse body of works while protecting existing ones.

It should come to no surprise that notable torrenting sites have many low-effort imitators. If anyone could copy stuff already out there, why spend the extra effort to innovate?

I'm all for open-source, but I recognize the value of copyright (and how it protects FOSS-licensed material) and healthy competition and innovation.
Iterating on my original thought, here is a smaller feature request for self-hosted GitLab instances. This can help GitLab.com too: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/273618
I don't think the intent is to have you book at a higher price. The intent is to get the booking and collect the fee. And they just don't care that they can't process corporate codes.

They are misrepresenting things, and asking about a discount code probably should get you forwarded to the hotel (or their corporate call center). It can get a little hairy when Hotels.com (or whoever) has a lower price or more rooms available than the hotel directly (sometimes the Online Travel Agencies will commit to a number of rooms over a time frame, then they have pricing autonomy and exclusive availability; probably not happening in covid times though)
That’s awesome – Surfly seems like it would be great for demos and scheduled calls! At the cost of the quick initial integration, we’d like Cohere to just work for any user afterwards without any effort on their end.
This is exactly why I've gone back to using just one (admittedly, big ass 32") screen whereas before I had three (one was attached to a separate device where builds occured). I do have one other display, but it's stacked high enough up on my vesa pole above %PRIMARY_DISPLAY% so I have to tilt my head up quite a bit to look at it. Note taking app, a small monitoring dashboard, email, and a music player are up there.

This means if it's not on my main screen, it's not on my mind until I make the conscious decision to move something over to it, or I need to drag something off of it. It's a behavior I had to force myself to train and become disciplined at.

If it needs to come down to the main screen, it should under no circumstances STAY there if I'm not working on it.

Benefits: attention is more intentional and deliberate, I can quickly glance up at something if needed, but I'm not straining my neck looking up because it's happening so infrequently.

Intentionality is king.

(edit: the only real problem with this particular bit of home office design is my macbook stays shut in a vertical dock, and since I haven't really made myself buy an external webcam, there are times I have to unhook things just to bring the Macbook out because there are people who are weirdly hung up about being able to 'see everyone's faces' on Zoom calls just to conduct an outage post mortem, which is annoying--but not annoying enough that it's made me want to spend even $20 on an external webcam)
Why hasn't the community tried a GitLab (or equivalent) over Tor? This ought to enable both collaboration with social features as well as anonymity from outside entities.
A big problem is that the "Jamstack" branding and the website make it deliberately unclear that "JAM" is an acronym. I can't even find it expanded on the site. Instead it contains relatively verbose explanations that never become clearer than the actual words they so desperately avoid.

It's Javascript, API, Markup. Put "pre-rendered" before "Markup" and you understand everything.

Maybe they do this because they really want to push the fact that you can serve the J and M from a CDN?
It's completely ironic that an Austrian economist would complain that someone would have a "fantasy world view which is inconsistent with actual evidence", when Austrian economics is bases itself on praxeology which is a completely anti-empiricist approach to economics.

Praxeology isn't useful at all. The real behaviour of humans cannot be reduced to three or four inalienable axioms. Even moreso, these axioms are by definition unjustifiable, which makes any system based on them unjustifiable as well. Any attempt to reduce human behaviour to an axiomatic system is necessarily a total failure.

The attempt to criticize empiricism by praxeologists is an exercise in obfuscated hypocrisy and a total contradiction. You cannot at once claim that only one's actual behaviour matters, and at the same time arguing that some unknown agent makes that behaviour unreproducible. It's completely absurd at every level.

This is incidentally why Austrian economics fails so hard at actually making any good predictions. It rejects in its totality the scientific method. It's closer to a theology than anything else.
Here I am avoiding Vim like a plague and using nano, people write Mario in it. Amazing stuff.
That thinking is about a decade out of date. The number of expolanets that are in the habitable zone grows geometrically. Some think every star has some planets. Simple chance makes it possible to find agreeable destinations nearly everywhere.

And 'evolutionary adaptation' is irrelevant. We can change ourselves (are changing ourselves) genetically already. That will only increase. The result will be a species more adaptable than any in a billion years. If it has the will to colonize other planets, it certainly can.

'A shred of evidence' is really not hard to find, if we aren't needlessly negative and contrary.
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This is not the same at all as live synchronization between devices, also, the Firebase SDK clients allow for offline data persistence.
I don't know. Don't take my comment too seriously, but if I was Canadian, I think these guys sending me fake administrative notes and filling the night with wolf sounds would qualify more like "them" than "we".
$2M is not a starter home. The national median home price is $230K. It's only that high because 4-5 states are dragging it up. Keep in mind that is the median. There are homes that can be had for less. Nice homes. Buying a house in one of the most expensive markets in the entire nation (SF, NYC) as your first home is a choice, and perhaps not a particularly wise one.

Where I live in, in Charlotte, NC a $1-2 million home budget would buy you a literal castle. Here is one on zillow not far from me for $1.2M it's a 6 bed, 7 bath, 7500+ Sq ft castle on an acre and surrounded by forest while still being only a 20 minute drive to the heart of the city.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/14001-Grand-Palisades-Pkw...

For a much more reasonable $250K you can easily get a nice 2-3K sq ft 3-4 bedroom home with a quarter acre lot, nice fixtures and a 2 bay garage. This is in the 15th largest city in the US mind you. Better deals can be had elsewhere.
Anyone know if they ship to Europe ? Or if there's a reseller in Europe.
It's a reactive functional programming IDE, that existed way before the term RFP was popular.

I'm serious. It's functional, as you say, and cells form a dependency DAG which drives their auto-update, which qualifies it for the "reactive" adjective.
Frankly, vandalizing a page becomes harder.

The job of people who would have to check and approve the PRs becomes harder, too.
They're not renting media to you, they're selling you an access license to something they may or may not have at any given moment. Literally Nothing-as-a-Service.
You're not alone, but I also think that (like most of us) you're setting the bar higher than it actually is for what a "network" means. You posted a question on HN and look at how many people are willing to put effort into answering it and helping you out, and literally the only connection is "all of us read HN."

If you look up people you've worked with or otherwise know whose opinions you respect and ask them a version of the question you asked here, my experience is that most people will be more than happy to talk and to direct you to other people that can also give useful information.

The key issues (again, just in my experience) are:

1) don't ask for a job, or approach these conversations with the goal of getting a particular job. People can be 1000x more forthcoming and are generally more helpful when it's an "informational interview" rather than an informal "job interview."

2) always ask, "do you know anyone else I should talk to?" That's how you make progress.

3) don't be an ass. More actionably: interact with other people the way you'd want to be approached if the roles were reversed.

tl;dr: a "network" doesn't need to be a close group of your friends.
'We removed WebSQL support, but you can build your own using a simple key-value store that we have implemented on top of SQLite! Rejoice!'
I don’t see how you can possibly think that. Saying that you’ve never experienced something is not a claim that no one has ever experienced that thing. Mine is not a generous interpretation, but rather I’m not going out of my way to infer some nefarious subtext.
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By giving the schools a blank check (via giving students a blank check as long as it’s spent on schools), the US government is effectively producing the lawyers.

If there was no free money sloshing around, people would have to do a proper cash flow analysis and look at supply and demand before being able to invest their time in degrees that don’t have ROI.

Same thing happened with pharmacy school, and now there’s tons of pharmacists making very little money for exposing themselves to lots of liability in fast food working conditions.
I mean, that's true! Your scenario also places our investment in learning how to live in space in the past. If we're already living in space then, of course, investing in learning how to live in space worked out!

This is what I was saying at the end about investing resources we have now into futures we may never see. If you argue from the point of view that projects will always work out as you imagine they will, then your investing ideas will always make sense. I just don't think that's how things work in practice.
Addressing global warming is not a cost in the long run, but the opposite. Technology that doesn't consume fossil fuel is inherently superior to what we have now and will generate enormous profits once the engineering is there. Don't believe me? Just look at Tesla's stock price.

Furthermore, cheap space travel does solve global warming because it makes the solution of orbital sun blocking feasible, which unlike currently available geoengineering tech, is instantly reversible.
True, in fact direct agricultural labor accounts for fewer than a million jobs in the U.S.

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/farming-fishing-and-forestry/agricul...

One place where technology is struggling to make an impact is in housing. Even ignoring the farcical inflation of land prices in some municipalities, the price of a building itself has not decreased in cost similar to other durable goods.

This is in part due to consumer choice

1 bigger buildings

2 better buildings (impoved sealing, more equipment, etc)

But also due to other factors

1 inability to replace skilled labor

2 ecological costs

3 increased code requirements
I don't know. Moving from a Wiki model to a GitHub PR model actually sounds worse for users. They talk about, "building a relationship with contributors". This could also be called, "building a lot of friction for contributors".

With a Wiki, even non-technical users can contribute, because the editing tools are all built in.

But with the PR model, now contributors need to understand HTML, CSS, Git, and GitHub PRs. I've been on GitHub for something like 10 years and I still have trouble figuring out PR workflows.

Making simple edits like grammar or punctuation fixes become significantly more effort in performing the submission than in performing the edit itself.

Wanting to have control over the submission process to prevent drive-by vandalism is certainly important. But that should be managed with role-based authentication and new users needing to have their edits approved by a moderator or by votes from long-term users in good standing. Once again, this sounds like the same old Mozilla line of "doing the right thing for the current user experience is too hard for our developers, so we're going to move the goalpost instead."

Compared to MSDN, MDN isn't as broad, but goes a lot deeper on topics, and has much better examples. Does Microsoft wring its hands over how much running MSDN costs, to the point of considering giving it up entirely? I don't think they do. I think they know that it's important to keep developers on-platform, in-ecosystem, and they do that by offering a comprehensive learning resource.

MDN is the best online resource for learning about Web technologies. I think a large part of that is because of the relatively low friction to edit. It not making Mozilla any money is completely their own fault. They could have taken that a step further and started offering training services and events. It stretches belief that you could have such a popular resource and can't figure out some sort of monetization strategy related to it. But, I guess, that's another of the same, old Mozilla lines.
>We can change Mars in large ways.

No we can't. The gravity of Mars is always going to be a problem. The lack of magnetic field is always going to be a problem. Most of its atmosphere was lost to space and there is not enough water on the planet to replenish.

>we could redirect an icy asteroid to collide, providing water, atmosphere and heat.

I read the Mars trilogy too.

>On the order of decades from now.

Sure.
I think you're right - our key difference is in risk tolerance.

You can choose to minimize your risks to maximize your resources for dealing with unexpected events. This is absolutely, completely, and in every possible way a valid life choice! Validity does not mean free of consequences, though.

I have several friends who live this way. They do their best to minimize every risk in their lives and maximize their spare resources. One thing they all have in common is that they never have enough saved to feel secure - there's always a bigger and scarier scenario that they aren't prepared for. Some of them even struggle to tap their "unknown unknown" funds in the event of genuine emergencies, because there's more that could go wrong and they need to be prepared.

Choosing to be maximally conservative is a perfectly reasonable and completely valid life choice. The catch, perhaps, is contextualizing it and accepting that you will pay a price for minimizing risk. Otherwise there's the real risk that a person winds up forever paralyzed by anxiety, sitting like the world's smallest dragon atop a horde of pennies in case you might need them.

And I think it's fair to say that that's not a portrait of your average college student or the future they envision.
I still think an even better path to success is to allow entirely disabling linking for non-admins.

Google no longer treats "nofollow" as strongly as it used to: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/09/evolving-nofollow-...
Spend BTC from paper/brain wallets with simple Python script
Nothing special, but I've had a hard time finding a simple tool to manage a bitcoin brainwallet or paper wallet. While it is important to understand the drawbacks and security implications of this kind of wallet, many of these wallets still exist. Sometimes brain wallets can be convenient/justified in certain settings. This is a helper tool for someone with a paper/brain wallet to spend coins given that they have the private key.
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What kind of speeds do you get? Because last time I tried it getting above a few megabits per second was a struggle. When we're talking about even an Ubuntu ISO, it's a couple gigs. It's too slow to want me to keep using it.
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"According to 80% of survey respondents, remote mentors are important."
I use excel and autohotkey for automated asset data entry into a remote desktop program.
>Startups want generalists. Larger companies want specialists

This is sometimes true. I've worked at startups though that only wanted to hire people that had familiarity in their chosen stack, since they have short runway and don't have time to invest in people's ramp up. In the current large company I work for we generally favor "fungible" software engineers (but, in one's day to day work, maybe a particular engineer will wear fewer hats at a large company).

When you interview at a company, you should interview your interviewers to find out whether this is true in the particular situation you find yourself in.
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If they're going after individual sites, could a 'workaround' be to keep switching domain names with a suffix like the week number? With a redirect on the main site to the site of the week. It would require new takedown notices every week.
There are very few small companies with liquid cash reserves in the seven figures. This makes Manhattan commercial real estate unaffordable for them.

This leaves many empty stores in Manhattan.
I share many of your views, and so I think you will enjoy Jean Bricmont’s “Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics”. The book clarifies there is no reason to doubt the pilot wave interpretation, or Bohmian mechanics.

For a more popular account that delves into the personalities of the physicists involved, I also recommend Adam Becker’s “What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics”.

Both books came to me via the reading list at https://bohmian-mechanics.net.
I’m a polyglot programmer and I find quite a lot to like about JS. The concurrency model, for one, and also its multi-paradigm nature.

I’d choose JS over Java for back-end glue code, and JS+HTML+CSS over Java+Swing for front-end UI and app distribution, any day of the week.
> Or do you expect Mozilla to maintain the MDN for free eternally just because?

That's what I expect of a non-profit organization dedicated to maintaining one of the last two remaining major browser engines, yes.
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I don't know why you mark people in pursuit of domain knowledge for the wider world as some evil elite, when there are people who exist to solely pursue personal profit at the cost of everyone else. These capitalists are the ones buying political adspace, spreading misinformation, and driving a wedge in the working class that directly leads to the polarized hyperpartisan political environment we have today. Not some underpaid humanities professor. The fact that you reflexively blame the academic is evidence that the propaganda from these moneyed groups is working as designed.
Hey it was a walled-garden sales site, not my own. The same one Hasbro used to market their lame Scrabble game.

And SEO is absolutely not 'marketing literature' which is defined as something the customer sees and reads. The word 'Scrabble' did not appear in that.

No I think its a contortion to make those arguments.
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Many parts of the United States have municipalities legally incorporated as "villages". Illinois is one example, "the Village of Downers Grove" http://www.downers.us/
Seems to be scaling just fine for Apple though.
Let's not put undue blame on Windows here. Not only it is factually incorrect (Windows System Restore has been around for ages, and File History is on by default on recent versions), Windows nags users to set up backup to an external storage, which, for example, Ubuntu does not even suggest.
You are really underestimating exponential growth in your assertion that there is no such thing as overpopulation on a universal scale. If human population is doubling say, every century, then the time it takes for us to go from populating the earth to the entire galaxy in less than 4000 years[1], and from there to the entire universe in less than another 4000.

[1]: There are a few trillion planets in our galaxy. If you asssume the mean population supported by a planet is within an order of magnitude of what Earth can support the math holds.
How is the Canadian government allowing this to happen? They should ban Chinese from buying and driving up prices, it's quite obvious what's going on.
I'm not convinced. If Chinese investors buy properties unseen, you could build lots of cheap apartments and sell them for lots of money. Sure it would be wasteful for a while, but in the end a lot of money would have flown to Canada, and presumably at some point the madness would stop.

I'm guessing regulation is the real problem, as it is so often.

Even if foreign investors let houses sit empty, the rising prices should be an incentive to build more houses, leading to more supply of housing eventually.

Speculation is after all a bet on future demand, and useful for anticipating future demand.