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> pindab0ter argues this not a fault in the CoC itself per se, but in how it was enforced.

That's a rather charitable interpretation.

The context here was weaponization of CoCs, and OP article was referenced as an example of this weaponization. It seems very clear to me that spindab0ter was arguing that this is not an example of weaponizing the CoC.

Your alternative interpretation doesn't really resonate for me, because it sounds like a "no no, guys, there was nothing at fault in the CoC itself" to a subthread where nobody claimed there was anything wrong with the contents of the CoC in the first place.
You’re attacking the first sale doctrine here though if you think about it!
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You're 100% right, "the fucking flu" still holds the record for people killed in a pandemic by a long shot.
If it is really a Firebase alternative, how does it manage live synchronization of data between users? or "cloud functions"? didn't find anything on the website.
Mmmm. That seems like a cheap shot to me.

"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." --Keynes (maybe)

I think it's fair to make the observation that the fundamentals are all out of whack and that investor confidence doesn't seem to correlate with the greater economic picture without being required to gamble your life savings on it.
Yeah, asking on a public forum is how they got altoid (Ross Ulbricht).
From my experience, I can say there are 3 types of managers:

- with little or no programming knowledge

- with moderate programming knowledge (they used to be developers long time ago)

- with excellent programming knowledge (they recently switched to management or they still develop)

...and it is really PITA to work with that group in the middle - they assume they know some technical stuff (but they don't or it is highly outdated), they underestimate complexity and they are always relating to the times when they used to write code with that passive aggressive narrative like he thinks he would do better.

Obviously I've made some generalization here, I bet there are exceptions.

It is pleasure to work with the first and the last group because the first one needs to trust development team and the last one just does.
This is not actually how it works in the real world. Private property cannot be upheld by individuals alone because of unsolvable issues in legitimizing any property claim, and therefore it is absolutely impossible to practically have any private property at all without having a state.

Indeed, looking back at history, the State was created essentially the same time that private property was created. This is not a coincidence.
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"Normal" is a terrible word to describe any future state. Many things have changed that won't go back to the way they were before ever (and that's entirely a bad thing): more working remotely, more grocery delivery, less retail shopping, etc.
The inverse is true as well. Good luck getting a spot on the on the schedule for anyone in the skilled trades in the US. Plumbers and HVAC companies charge through the roof and never can fill vacancies (at least with anyone reliable)
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The restaurant may not be offering pickup service in a way they consent to because Grubhub is listing them against their consent. Grubhub isn't being clear that these restaurants haven't consented to orders via Grubhub.
Smaller companies.

Every giant company is looking for specialization. If you like having your hands in everything and it’s where you add the most value, look for smaller companies where it’s possible.
Reading all these comments, I'm reminded of people who've undergone serious brainwashing. No snark intended--look.
I am not sure why you think that- I went from doing low level C++ in algo trading for ~10 years to node.js, and programming was never so much fun! No more fighting with the build system, getting a basic app up and running took less than an hour, no fighting with endless XML config, my change-->deploy cycle was seconds, not minutes the node.js debugger blew my mind- it was as good as Visual Studio... but in the browser?!

I could go on, but moving to node was an absolute pleasure and made me realize the Stockholm Syndrome I had in regards to C++.
This is an antibody test: i.e. have you already had covid.

You linked to a rapid test for "do I currently have covid" type check.
In my case, I call myself a specialist in one of the relevant fields I have worked in the last 3 years. Then I mention all the other things I have done when I have a chance. Don't call yourself a jack of all trades, make them call you that.
I use an app called wordfeud. I think I paid 4$ once, and that's it. I've played thousands of games for that 4$. It is not going to win any design awards, but it is good enough. More importantly, it is dependable and just works. I've soundly beaten some beginners and have been beaten beyond recognition by experts. It has tons of users - from beginners to very, very strong players and everyone in between.

Not sure who owns wordfeud, hopefully not EA, it would break my heart :(
Perhaps there is a case to be made here around how reasonable person principle should be applied, because the defense can argue that only an idiot blames the company cooking the food when the independently-contracted delivery guy is too slow.

If they can hinge a case on whether the reasonable person can tell the difference, there's meat on the bones, but I don't see this case ending with Grubhub's business model being declared illegal (only with clarifications as to how to maintain the reputation protection aspect of trademark against the nominative fair use aspect of trademark).
I think that the critical skill which intelligent people don't have but which clever people have is simply knowing what is important.

Unfortunately, the best way to learn that skill is through struggle. Too many intelligent people these days haven't experienced struggle in their careers (aside from the artificial struggles of navigating company politics). Many went through university (often paid for by their parents), then as soon as they finished, they immediately got a huge salary at a big corporation.

Many were never in a situation such that their employer could go out of business and they would lose their job and livelihood if they failed to deliver high quality work in a reasonable time.

Also, the skills that you learn in dealing with company politics are counter-productive.
I dunno, full stack developer always comes across as frontend developer who also writes some node to me.
Pretty much people. This is why I never got down with the Apple Music bullshit. Nor Spotify. If I buy an album I want those damn audio files in my computer.

All these businesses will continue to raise their membership fees and you still will own bupkis.
> Curious if I'm alone in this?

I think most people underestimate their networks. Not saying you're wrong, but you've worked with people, right? Hopefully not been a complete ass :) ? Done work on a team with or adjacent to them?

That's a start!

Networks aren't created overnight, and people try to hack them poorly all the time.

Think about it like a garden, not a project. It can't be created overnight: the right way is repeatedly, but at a low-intensity, tending to it.

Set yourself a goal: reach out to one person you've previously worked with on LinkedIn a week. Don't ask for a job. Just say you were thinking of them, {insert memory, if you have one}, and hope they're doing well. If they reply, maybe steer the convo to what technologies or challenges they're working on now...

I get it. I'm an introvert too. I'm €®£÷ing terrible with people. But it's improveable with repeated effort, like anything else.

A few ideas (in preferred order): (1) Take coffee (or now, Zoom?) with folks to catch up, (2) Volunteer with tech groups (pref charities, in tech, with people you want to network with, not just you giving free labor, and make sure to introduce yourself and talk about what you do), (3) Attend tech meetups (eh... unless you're presenting, this can be a waste of time), (4) Attend conferences (again, be seen, introduce yourself. Many are remote and free this year, good for attending, bad for networking)

The end goal is that if that person thinks "I need someone to X" then your name pops into their head. If you haven't talked to them in 5 years, that's not going to happen.
You'd be surprised how few users are going to pay to remove the ads (definitely less than 3% in my experience).
"ever" is a terrible word to describe the future state.
No one knows what's going to be 10 or 100 years from now.
Which plugin are you using? it seems life-changing to me
For me the sad truth is that I don't. I'm a junior pentester, junior to medior developer (depending on whom you ask) and know a lot more about data science than I'm supposed to for "my profile".

Now I'm in a job where I'm simply judged as a developer. I've noticed that even when I find vulnerabilities and show them to the dev team at the startup I work, they don't care. When it's a critical, they care a little. They actively dislike that I try to do more than just programming, since it isn't of my concern. And yet, this is the most graceful company that I've been at since they hired me, out of the 100 I applied to.

So yea, I'm floundering. I want to help out with marketing and recruiting. I want to help out with some data science. And I definitely want to hack the company I work at in order to harden your product against hackers. I know my main role is being a dev, but I hate being only seen as a dev.

If any company hires people based in Amsterdam and would like such a generalist dev, I'm for hire. I also speak English ;-)
I wrote a Rust / tree-sitter program to detect reify usage in Clojure code a while ago: https://github.com/borkdude/analyze-reify (partially for learning Rust but also performance is really nice). I wanted to extend this to more advanced patterns and do it in Clojure itself, because that's what I'm most productive with.

The reason I wanted to know more about this specific pattern is to answer the question if it's relevant enough for scripting. If so, I should probably support that in my Clojure interpreter (https://github.com/borkdude/sci) which is used in babashka (https://github.com/borkdude/babashka), a fast starting scripting environment for Clojure.

After seeing Grape (https://github.com/bfontaine/grape) I connected the dots and figured I could do this using clojure.spec.

I usually hang out on Clojurians Slack (channels: babashka, sci, clj-kondo, clojure, off-topic).
Except that you can't prevent yourself from spreading it others, who may be at risk.
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I didn't think this would be useful from the title, but the demo honestly blew me away. I've seen much more expensive applications that only handle read-only cursor playback, but handling real-time tab sharing is amazing.
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You shouldn’t wear masks to “make people feel comfortable”. You should wear masks because even asymptomatic people can spread the disease. You could unknowingly catch and help spread the disease to someone who is vulnerable. Someone you might not even know.

You’re right not to fear COVID for yourself; statistics support that view. But common, non-medical masks are not for personal safety. They’re for preventing community spread.
If you really are a jack of all trades, it doesn't matter. At that point, you're smart and capable and generally a great hire. If a company isn't hiring well enough to recognize that, you don't wanna work there anyway.
The arrogance and ignorance in this comment are staggering.

I want to read about transitions. I want to see how late-adopter and mainstream companies go from old, manual processes to modern, automated processes.

As someone who's been in both slow-moving federal government agencies and bootstrapped startups with the latest tech, I've seen a wide variety of tech journeys happen, and it's fascinating.
I prefer to hire generalists, though one problem I do run into is the generalists who aren't pragmatic, and they simply follow whatever is in-vogue at the moment. So you hire them and instead of them helping to drive the business, they decide they want to rewrite everything from Python to Go or Rust or whatever.

So I would suggest you make it clear you want to work within a company's existing framework and not turn it into your personal technical debt playground.
Your pinned tweet is quite fascinating.
> To a first approximation, I can't really see why Place and Pay should be illegal. It's basically paying the neighbor kid to go pick up some dinner for you, writ large.

The service itself isn't illegal, but impersonating the restaurant is.
This is now the 4th comment of yours I've come across in this thread, all offering no evidence of what you claim. Rather than just repeating "you're wrong" over and over again, you'll get a lot farther by clearly explaining why the article is wrong, once.
Yeah seriously, don't look at the numbers for a few years. I'm not knowledgeable at all about investing, which is why my savings are in Vanguard index funds to begin with. I have two that are up nearly 70% over the last 10 years or so. If you buy and hold these things you're investing in the long term functioning and health of the economy, which has proven over the last few centuries to be a decent bet. If civilizational collapse messes with your returns the state of your index funds will be the least of your worries.
Just call yourself a "software engineer". What you're describing is not a jack of all trades.
Yeah, I suppose so.

But how do you deal with multiple feature flags implemented on the same piece of the system?

How do you create discrete components when you have three or more features intersecting on that component?

And presumably there's a proliferation of test cases, too (because you'd need to test that everything works with all combinations of features A,B,C,D implemented)?

How much of this gets cleaned up afterwards? When the feature is fully rolled out, how do you resist the pressure to move on to another feature and leave the flags implemented rather than clean it all up and remove the old code?
The possibly fraudulent part is that the customers is led to believe they're dealing with the restaurant.
This seems like a pretty basic calculus problem. Constants become irrelevant at the limit, so that the relationship (ratio) is all that's left.
We work with many people who are new to technology, and something like this is exactly what we are looking for to help walk our customers through our product. Amazing idea!
If you simplify it: if you have a lot of architects but very few builders, you're not going to get a lot done. That doesn't mean that society was made for or by the builders. Since academics tend to want to eat as well, you still need somebody to provide the food. If all you have is educated people for whom food production is beneath their qualifications, you're going to end up with starving academics lamenting the cruelty of the universe not providing food to them.
Swedish skeptic of "the Tegnell/Swedish approach" here: I trust the numbers, but there's a delay in reporting the deaths - it takes at least 10 days to get ~95% of them. There are multiple checks/tests at various stages and it takes time.

Takeaway: Don't trust the latest week's death numbers from Sweden, but trust the ones before that.

The elder care homes etc have gotten a lot better at protecting the people living there.

Having said that, I'm just waiting for things to explode again - and it just takes a few elder care homes to get infected for lots of people to die.
> So: “Biden paid more and we don’t have enough info to say why, let alone whether this is somehow unfair.” Is that it?

That's the subtext, but from TFA this is explicitly illegal in other media forms -- presidential candidates all always pay the lowest ad price.
No I did not. Don't read into things that aren't there.

Just because I used the phrase NIMBY does not mean I am against it. I detest how O&G companies behave, however, I can also see exactly why this example would drive them mad. They have to gear up for exactly this type of reaction when they do want to move into an area, so to have to gear up for a fight when there are no plans just means spending effort on something totally stupid.
Aren't most transcendental numbers unremarkable?
I remember reading about a dentist in similar conditions who cleaned his(her?) root canal. I've recently tried to googling it but wasn't able to find source though.
Checking out your website was fun, thank you for writing about freelancing. I am not the type that wants to do only "sexy programming work", I believe that maintenance work is where the stability is at. Solving business problems with what is already there rather than pulling in unstable codebase of an OS project that may die or is already dead.. are some of the things I live by. Hoping to get into freelancing soon.
Sounds nice, how did you proceed to reverse engineering Notion?
First - even if my example is wrong (and I don't think it is) you're missing the point on what propaganda is and why it is used. COVID is just an anecdote.

Second - our understanding of Corona with respect to masks has not hugely changed to the point wherein that decision would have been otherwise 6 months ago.

1) We know what Coronaviruses are (remember SARS?)

2) Our medical staff have absolutely been wearing masks since day 1. Why? Because obviously we knew they helped in some manner.

3) Asian countries wear masks and have 'done well' very early in the game and have been begging us to mandate masks.

4) We obviously would err on the side of caution and worn masks were it not for the shortage.

The only thing that has really changed is the widespread availability of them.

So while I do think that 'perspective on masks' has moved a little bit on the policy-making front .... we still knew they could be effective.

If Dr. Fauci were being totally transparent 6 months ago in March, he would have said:

"Masks can possibly help, but not as much as you think, so wear one if you want, but don't believe that this will protect you to the point of taking other, risky behaviours"

But he didn't say that. He literally said:

"There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask".

Read that again:

"There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask".

That's a really, really powerful statement from the 'Nations Most Credible Doctor'. A mistake of enormous proportions, one that without the 'shortage caveat' would seem inexcusable, given the otherwise 'low opportunity cost' of asking people to wear them even if they were ineffective.

We knew masks could help, but we were more worried about shortages, that was the impetus for the public communications, as an example of 'propaganda'.
To me it gets 'shitty' when they do this without disclosure. I have no problem with placing an order with GH and having them place the order for me, but when they masquerade as the restaurant and try to hide that from the customer is where the problem comes in.
Sap is generally used by retail. It only makes sense.

Salesforce on the other hand is a completely different story.

But for Wallstreet, they’re almost the same company
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It would be almost impossible to tell in any case, and even what is money laundering in the west might not be considered as such in China.
This is just reiterating the first post I responded to, and so I'll respond in kind:

Why does Grubhub have any responsibility to obtain the restaurant's consent? If I pay someone to go to the grocers and pick up some items for me, is that someone obligated to obtain the grocers' permission? Why is this situation different?

If the restaurant is offering pickup service, then to me there is no obligation on any third party to obtain permission to utilize that service and deliver the results to a customer.
"Printing" doesn't resolve any problems. If it did, we wouldn't need to do it over and over. Have you heard of hyperinflation? Do you know where "printed" money tends to end up (hint: it's neither in your pocket nor mine)?
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I have a friend with a small restaurant business and learned about some of the sketchy things grubhub does . Some people order food, my friend's business delivers the food and a few hours after the food was delivered the order is cancelled. Grubhub refunds the money to the person who ordered and refuses to do absolutely anything about it for the business. He filmed on his phone when dropping the food, handing it to a customer and Grubhub shrugs their shoulders. They suggested he creates a a black list of numbers+addresses to refuse orders but that isn't fool proof, the sketchy customers use different numbers and order at a slightly different address and wait outside for it. They may add numbers to a black list as well but some of these bad customers use burner phones.

So a big problem with these middleman services is that control is completely ceded to the middleman and one can't really do anything about it. It is extremely frustrating for business owners, but probably not as bad for the customers. This type of competition a la Grubhub/Amazon will kill a lot of legitimate business and create their own generic services instead. It is a subjugating experience and business owners don't feel that they are control of their own destiny. It saddens me that this trend doesn't seem to get any better but only exacerbate over time.
I take issue with the first two: "idiosyncratic, criminal, or political reasons." Only political reasons is legitimately terrorism. Terrorism and provoking mere "terror" are not the same thing.
You can't ever be fully aware of the consequences, and you can't keep every secret to yourself. Sure, take some to the death bed if you want, I think we should heartily defend the right to "make the mistake" of telling a secret to someone private and stand up for the horrible crime of seeking help in an isolating society. Nice name by the way, we don't all have the memory of a goddess to properly order our secrets in.

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Okay I've skimmed your HN history for juicy secrets to make a point. You're a teenager who doesn't trust people (with some parts of yourself) and writes your secret emotions down on paper to send to fake people. You think a public psychological label is a life-and-death matter. You seem to think 'How to win friends & influence people' is an acceptable instruction book for manipulating people. So you are somewhat exposed already.

The point of therapy is to not need it anymore. If you have hang ups about it, or other topics, you should go there until you don't need to anymore. There is nothing inherently good or bad about having a socially approved and useful set of ideas to contain chaos.

The psychological disorders are like tools. They don't describe what you are, they are a useful label for closing up Pandora's box again and give people some relief from an unknown illness. Having a psychologist label you or anybody else as narcissistic, sociopathic or psychopathic is no more dangerous than being called a jay-walker. If you know what it means and what you are, then it's manageable.

There are some secrets that will get your life messed up. For every Turing, you have a Tom Cruise or the people who went to Epstein's island or whoever else has taboo secrets and still succeeds. There are not good or virtuous secrets and you are wise to be aware of their impact. The majority of secrets are uninteresting and commonplace.
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I remember in the early 00's that people would share books and movies by using a simple command that would allow someone to zip an archive into a jpeg. For example, they would put a book's pdf file in an image of its cover. Someone else could then download the image, unzip it and get it's contents.

I can easily imagine how someone could use this for nefarious purposes.