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> I'm not interested in FAANG as I worked at Amazon early in my career and found the culture / work stress to be a poor fit

It may be worth noting that the culture can vary dramatically between companies and between teams in a single company. In particular, Google is generally well-known for having a healthier culture and less stress.

That being said, much like there may be lower-stress teams at Amazon, I'm sure there are higher stress teams at Google with less than healthy team culture. These companies are so large that it's difficult to paint them with a single brush.
> The thinking goes that cocaine has use as a medicine for end of life care (milk of the poppy and all that).

“Milk of the poppy” is obviously a stand-in for opiates (derived from the opium poppy), not cocaine.

But, yes, There is a history of cocaine being used with opiates as a pain treatment, especially in end-of-life cases.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brompton_cocktail
Ah right! I misread and assumed the course had happened before . Seems it was a small group in a prelaunch test.
It is unfortunate (and a reflection of the power imbalance in US employment) that Google doesn't simply offer a corporate phone as a matter of practice - it benefits both the employee and the employer in the long run (with dishonest actions put aside).
Or more accurately: owning property and being told your place in the community.
Winamp skins can also be used in Audacious.
Eager to see what people build on top of it. I've still got my old ships (or planets) somewhere.
You've got a point, but of course there's a gradient on the weed end as well. It's just that there's a sharper cutoff on the low end for what constitutes interesting.
Assuming no or minimal congestion or losses, the LMP (locational marginal price) or nodal price is basically the same everywhere. So the question is what is the MEC (marginal energy component) of the nodal price which is shared by everyone. In general, prices in the spot market are pretty low that early in the morning. It depends on the RTO/ISO region, but maybe ~$10/MWh?
I don't really disagree with you that it can have its downsides but I think that attaching legal consequences to its use doesn't help people who need help. Imagine if you had to go to jail if you were an alcoholic.
> The person redlined a contract instead of spending +$2000/yr (out of a likely $250,000+ salary) on a second personal phone. Such short-sidedness is a bad trait in an employee.

This isn't a solution, but a covert work-around.
You fundamentally misunderstand my point. I'm saying you can add those in to your diet, not meat. I'm not claiming we need to inject these missing nutrients into the meat, and I'm not claiming that our body manufactures them from sources where they are absent. But your implication here is that humans eat only one type of meat from an animal that provides all nutrients we need. That's not true, and it's stupid to think that. You really need to try to understand the science of this topic because you're out of your depth, clearly. Stop putting words in peoples' mouths.
Why is this post already relegated to page 2 of HN despite having 129 points within 55 minutes of being posted?

my guess is that it got flagged to death.
I believe your blind passion for the eu - a project i support - makes you blind to its flaws. Some of us in the eu are struggling with its incompetence and any criticism is quickly shut down as euro skepticism or misinformation. A dangerous path if we want the project to survive.
Not a government, but they do vote on where to send troops and step in when governments fail and decide who gets sent food, who gets loans.
And a great reason for collective bargaining from the employees.
The Germans had this really clever scheme where they tied the price they pay for solar power to the price from fossil fueled power. That really incentivized people to create more efficient solar and thus increase their profit margins.
That's a very good idea.Here's a spoiler with the password :)

https://txt.fyi/-/20336/ede282d7/
This headline is super confusing. I interpreted it as meaning Google spied on people and then fired them. However, what the article itself seems to be saying is that Google fired people for spying on others. The spying was, "for reviewing other employees’ calendars." The NLRB then found that illegal.

At least, that's how I'm interpreting this article. Otherwise there's no actual explanation of what spying actually occurred.
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People bypass this step all the time. The difference is they all have a good faith belief their managers would approve the change if they were available. Spiers 100% knew her changes wouldn't be approved by project leadership, and she used an emergency push to bypass their review.

Honestly, the fact that she has the gall to complain to the NLRB about this firing is pretty despicable. Google should be suing her for defamation.
Which tech isn't ready? The plasma behavior for that volume was already shown by JET @ 1.5 bar. MIT Alcator C-Mod which achieved a record 2-bar pressure that won't be beaten by ITER for 15 years. Arc also predicts a 2-bar pressure plasma. The difference is, they did it with non-superconducting magnets (copper), and paid a huge price in losses due to resistance. Arc's HTS magnets won't suffer the same problem, will have triple the field strength, and will be structurally stronger.

Arc is doing what JET and Alcator C-Mod did (with a radius very similar to JET), just with a much more power efficient confinement system, so the input power is lower, and the magnetic field is a factor of 2.6 stronger. The basic physics show that stronger fields actually make the plasma more well behaved, not less, so the major variable vs JET (a proven existing tokamak with Q=0.67) that's changing is not likely to lead to surprising results.
In a weird way, having the Max grounded during 2020 turned out to be lucky timing on Boeing's part. The airlines slowdown due to COVID likely gave them some serious breathing room while they got their shit together.

Now hopefully they actually did get their shit together.
YouTube's Infrastructure (2008)
Readdle's Spark mail client for iOS/MacOS has many of these features. Doesn't help for your samsung, but in case any other iOS folks are scrolling by. :)
> If you don't like the way Google does business, you are free to not do business with them

And you are free to discuss bad behaviors publicly. I don't understand your snark.
"Available jurors will receive a Survey Monkey questionnaire, drafted by the government and defense attorneys, the week of Feb. 15."

Unexpected choice of tooling.
> Not to mention, we know drunk driving impairs people and increases risk.

How is that different from not vaccinating against a dangerous, contagious disease. It increases risk, and it kills people around you.

> This vaccine has been rushed through the process with zero long-term Longitudinal studies.

There are zero long-term longitudinal studies for the dangers of COVID, too (Or of odds and dangers of losing immunity years after an infection.) Do you get to just assume that there aren't any, without extending the same latitude for vaccination?

Look at the comments in this subthread. Look at the arguments made against vaccination. They aren't data-driven. Not a single number is listed in them. No number of studies are going to convince people whose argument for not getting vaccinated is 'I don't think it's a big deal, and I don't want to, and I will only talk about personal responsibility, because I don't care about my impact on anyone else.'
I assume it's just a big f-ing chain and they hardfaced the crap out of it. This is the salvage industry so they tend to go for low buck solutions like that for a variety of reasons.
I think I'd agree that it is a weird spoiling of goodwill, but would put this one entirely as Google's fault. Requesting a minor change to a contract the first time you see it is the expected behavior, not an outlier. That's the entire point of contracts, in order to come to a meeting of the minds. This is the equivalent of haggling at a flea market, and being thrown out as a result.
I'm currently involved in an effort to rip out docker swarm at work because its overlay networks are shockingly unreliable. LXD looks interesting but https://linderud.dev/blog/packaging-lxd-for-arch-linux/ convinced me that it's another Canonical NIH special and probably best avoided (in particular, "only distributed for Ubuntu via snaps" means "forces auto-updates" which means "not going in my environment"). Need to try Nomad; I'm cautiously optimistic since the rest of HashiCorp's stuff is good.
> Since when has Google been good at branding?

Google's Mid-2000s marketing and product-nomenclature was on-point though:

* Google Mail

* Google Maps

* Google Image Search
As someone who recently acquire a Clapper... I had forgotten just how finicky it could be. Can't clap too quietly, too loudly, too slowly, or too quickly. Often takes me three or four tries! Not exactly an enjoyable experience for the person sitting next to you...
that's what maturation into adulthood is, taking responsibility for social institutions that are larger than oneself and endure longer than oneself, rather than being a 35 year old owning nothing and playing paintball, which is, in contrast to the business culture on display here the future sold to us by the beloved SV companies. Most of which if I had to bet will not last longer than this store.
We use VoIP.ms for our landline and it emails us when someone sends an sms. I think they support mms too.
So the entire argument is that PHP is single threaded and each request starts with no state? Am I missing anything else?

I’m trying so hard not to rant here, so I just wanted to confirm that those are the only positives he outlines about the language.
I don't know about the rare part. I have a very close friend who works as a emergency room doctor and she said that she is really tired of all the cases where people can't handle marijuana, its all the same symptoms, extreme sickness, vomiting, belligerent behavior etc. I asked her what caused it (overdose?) and she said its a few things, a part of the population has a hard time dealing with large amounts of the compounds in marijuana, also she said that THC content in alot of strains being sold today is really high. So some overdose, some genetic/biology involved. Strange thing is the media/news does not report on this at all. And she said its an almost multi-daily occurrence(lives near a medium sized metro area).
Ha! Your blog post was one of the reasons that I trusted in the future of Materialize enough to decide to work here!

I agree, that is exactly the problem that I, in particular, think we are solving.
I live in Texas. I see tons of cows in pastures. However, they're not always there for dairy.
Travis Scott likely sold $10M+ from Fortnite virtual content
Agreed, my first thought was "but they just sold Mixer". Doesn't make much sense to me.
The problem I have with trade unions is that those usually start mandating how work is performed, rather than just acting as protectors of workers' rights. As a silly example, an IT Union could mandate that we all use tabs for indentation. In general the idea of unionising is appealing, but I don't want to end up in such a degenerate situation. I want an organisation that will protect my rights as a human being while on the job, while also giving me some amount of power to steer the corporation that profits from my labour. It would be nice if this could be done as one generic overarching union that all workers are a part of and that guarantees basic rights for everyone, which could perhaps then be further refined by profession if strictly needed. My thought is that a generic union will not have a desire to meddle in the actual work process, but keep their activity on the political level.
I agree this is definitely a great way to solve problems, it's one of hill climbing basically, where the tactics and strategy really need to be carefully managed since it's very easy to get the gradient or step size wrong.

Another way to see it is it's a form of de-risking an already risky endeavor. Anytime you reduce risk by adopting a methodology or formula that has known benefits, you're basically trading options (in the financial markets sense.) In this case, you're (probably) reducing downside risk, while increasing the odds of success, but at a cost of reducing the overall maximum upside, since your odds of creating a once-in-a-generation disruption goes down if you're using a hill climbing methodology to create wealth.
That's why I talked about wind power, which was being used to directly power mechanical things- without any intermediate biology- long before anyone used fossil fuels to do it.
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Thanks! That last part is actually still incomplete. I'll let you know when there is a new version.

It's great to know you like the game type. I've considered turning this into an easily adaptable format so this is within our scope :)
PHP after 5 is great. I guess from PHP 7 on things changed pretty significantly.

Combine it with Laravel and nginx, and you've got an enjoyable stack in my opinion.
Do you just spend all day making CRUD API endpoints? Surely there is business (e.g. domain) knowledge in there.
It is the min. additional required, given they calculate capacity usage into very small units (like one of our statements was for $0.20 which is also how they position themselves), I was under the impression from the rep they could re-paper with a token amount(basically roll over without any new significant purchase, for a 10k contract, 1k is to me significant). I of course should have pushed what the new contract min might be so that is on me. But as I mentioned in my reply elsewhere details that their min. purchase policies changes and apply to different people differently, which is their prerogative, but I'm just recommending people not to trust what their sales rep portrays and if you are small, just stay on demand because they may have some huge new min. purchase requirement that is not in your contract.
"Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters." -- C.S. Lewis

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/393200-i-am-a-democrat-prop...
I've heard good things about Writing A Compiler In Go, which is a sequel to Writing An Interpreter In Go. I've worked through some of the latter and have enjoyed it so far.

https://compilerbook.com/
I'll try for an elevator pitch:

* The original vision for the internet was decentralized: if I want to send you a message or do some computing work together, I would have my computer talk directly to your computer

* This vision actually failed and today virtually all computing on the internet has become centralized in big corporate servers. Instead of my computer talking to yours, my computer logs into Facebook's server and we communicate through Facebook controlled accounts. These big corporations control our accounts and identities and often our data too. They can censor us at their whims, serve us ads, and data mine us

* The decentralized vision failed because decentralized software is much harder to build than centralized software and servers are much harder for everyday people to operate than regular client operating systems

* It seems unlikely that these problems can be solved from within the current ageing technology stack, so what if we built a new tech stack - designed from scratch to make decentralized networked computing easier - where running your own server is no harder than running your own web browser or smartphone

* That's urbit
This is just name calling and blaming the victim, which is almost every employee of every tech job in the world, while celebrating the power of the employer. Insisting that a contract be negotiable when it comes to complete and total spying on you, in the context of an article where the employer is illegally spying on you, is not the trait of a bad employee
Damnit, last year I walked straight past that mochi shop without even realising it. And now I'm hungry.

(Seriously, though, the snacking in Kyoto is epic. Lovely temples and all, but when I go back, my first stop will be at a yatsuhashi shop, then mochi, then those red bean fish cake thingies, then maybe a cucumber on a stick. Damnit, now I'm REALLY hungry. Anyhow, these are businesses worth keeping around for a thousand years. They're just that tasty.)
Growing as a Software Engineer [audio]
Uh, no. Nope. Google has been suppressing wages progressively for years. They made an illegal no poach agreement with their peers that led to one of the largest settlements in history.

Just this past cycle they pushed down compensation for top performers. There was an internal slide deck someone found where they laid out plans to reduce pay by slowing down promo to senior levels.

A union would mean the ability to negotiate as a group rather than just taking whatever Google decided to offer us.
Upon re-reading, I too wonder if Google means they'll rootkit any employee phone that comes onto company property. I hope they only rootkit phones with proprietary data on them.

Also, super important context: Of all the companies in the world, which ones would have employees, say, designing a rootkit to exfiltrate trade secrets, or for fun, or...? Google, certainly. So I get Google's position, as long as you're allowed a personal phone free of corporate intrusions.
Like that makes it any better.

"I am not a number I am a free man!"
Well... Isn't this old news? You could read for example Foucault and have a similarly enlightening but more cohesive reading experience.

But maybe immersing yourself in the rohrschach/barnum-effect nature of these texts is more fun.
Property taxes aren't progressive: although they're levied on individuals who tend to be well-off, a significant proportion of those costs end up passed on to renters. Additionally, poorer people tend to spend a larger portion of their income on housing (be it rent or otherwise) than the rich.
or, how to get sued by Google for trademark infringement
If the security folks don’t get to dictate corporate strategy, why do the legal folks? I mean, is this company making widgets for money, or legal briefs?
The article lacked any detail on the “honor system” that sustained it for centuries in place of the fixed prices charged post-WWII. What does that mean...pay-what-you-like?
> 100% agree. People laugh at me why I carry two phones but this is the main reason.

I technically carry 4 phones...
A lot of us do not want to work in the family business but rather want to pursue our dreams. You only have the one life after all.
Thanks, that reference is useful. I found it hard to find solid stuff on this.
Not if the framework can readily create v0, v1 from the temporaries. It'll still end up as a full SSA according to what they describe.
> Slack uses PHP for most of its server-side application logic, which is an unusual choice these days. Why did we choose to build a new project in this language? Should you?

We already know the painfully obvious answer to this question even if it's not listed in the "reasons": because the technology decision makers were comfortable with PHP and they wanted to use it.
> I am extremely skeptical that Microsoft will simply shelve

If it makes money (directly or indirectly) or can be used to power a (feature/data/etc) moat of some kind you can absolutely bet it will return: it's been implemented now, and capitalism means that profit-motives ensure there's always pressure to bring it back, and if it's just some PR manoeuvring and the flick of a switch to re-enable it, it just becomes a case of "when" and not "if".
I don't have time to check that report in particular, but past Lazard studies have included both subsidized and unsubsidized figures side by side.

And as Bryan says in the sibling comment, there's not a large gap between the prices. Residential solar was heavily subsidized in many countries but wind and utility scale solar aren't as much, and they're also the cheap ones.

If they're not clearly marked, you may need to hunt down another with more detail.
Perhaps they do use it but they know exactly what to say to get it working.
Unions are democratic organisations, the whole point of them is for workers to gain power together. You’ll only get tabs enforced if the majority of workers agree that’s a useful rule to have.
Is it really a constant or can there still be a (a little) variation in the number when measured over astronomical distances, or over large timescales?
Well, this is technically true, and already being done today with gas and petroleum.

Converting it back-and-forth to electricity isn't easy nor very efficient, though. Hydrogen is a bit easier, although still lossy. I'd say it's doable, and not as bad as it sounds, if you really have excess production.

inb4 compressed air supertankers.

That said, it will in most cases be less expensive to use it as close to the originating point as possible if you can find a need for it.
Collective employment agreements mandate minimums, not maximums.
I got a Thinkpad 3yrs ago to replace by (now 6-yr old) Macbook Pro. The Thinkpad died, while my MBP is still going strong.
That's because it was hardly a product name - they just slapped their corporate name of top of the respective noun...
Maybe. This is how I've felt about unions since the grad students tried to unionize at my university, and all the hard science grad students would have lower salaries if the union came to fruition. So it's an effect that I would expect in general if good devs get grouped in with non devs. However, a former roomate's father owned a construction company and I was talked to him about unions once. I took the stance that he must be frustrated about unions as a business owner, and he said "no way". He said he loved the 3 unions he had on site because without them he wouldn't have access to the best talent. Apparently if you're a skilled tradesman you have a much higher earning potential in a union than out of a union, so the most skilled will be in a union.

Now that said, that's the current equilibrium in the construction world. I have another anecdote from a former employer that had to deal with unions, and unions were a pain for that company to work with. I think the owner would have happily squashed the union if he could, but this was in a shrinking industry that had a glut of talent. Definitely a different equilibrium there.

So you could very well be correct that unions would pull down salaries for high paid devs in the short term, and even in the long term. I'm just not as convinced as I was when I was younger.
Haven't you ever thought it odd that the document is entirely authored on one end and hence entirely nothing but a list of terms advantageous to one party? From this perspective, a single deletion is a pathic barely countable concession at best.

Imagine B2B contracts were written this way...whatever company has the bigger ego authors every last word and walks away the moment a detail is questioned. You could only afford negotiation tactics at that abuse level if you literally have customers begging it the alter of death to buy your product at a willingness to surrender all in order to make it happen. Plus they would sign but still hate you can hope to end the relationship with 0 loyalty the moment an alternative appeared on the market.