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Except these terms have meaning. If you're "terminated", you can usually get unemployment. In some cases even if it was for cause.

If you resigned, generally you can't, barring some specific circumstances.
I'm always curious how do people come up with these ideas. I assume that to be in a position to make something like this you need to have a very good understanding of the problem space.

As tech people i often feel that while we may have an advantage in being able to execute, finding a problem can be quite tricky if all you know is IT!
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hadn't thought of this like DTrace. Thx for that!
Almost every large engineering team has someone with the skills to do terrible, but powerful things like these. You should be scared, not of those people or their work, but the situations in which these people become necessary. Strive to make it so that they are not needed. Too many engineering teams, especially at certain large companies (of which Uber is one), fail to understand this.
Black-or-white thinking like this is false and damaging. The world has nuance, and the idea that “[people are] independent enough to make their own decisions. Period” rejects that nuance and substitutes a simplified and idealistic model of human behaviour which is alluring but does not reflect how human brains actually work.

It is not patronising to say that people are not all created with the same set of skills, beliefs, and values, and that some will engage with obvious bullshit. Many are not capable or interested in engaging with complex topics in a way that does not self-reinforce their pre-existing opinions. I have discussed this elsewhere[0].

When a group of people are motivated to exploit the weaknesses of others in order to get them to do things that are damaging to our democratic institutions, and they use misinformation to do it, it is unpleasant but not unreasonable to me to suggest that spreading lies through misinformation is as serious as suppressing truth through censorship and that they should both be treated equally seriously.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25359003
oh gosh thanks https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25375799
> The worst part of the Facebook/Oculus integration is that there's no way to log out--you can't even revoke the login remotely via the Facebook settings page which can do that for any other device--so anyone who has access to your headset has access to your Facebook account and your Messenger history, forever.

I guess the solution to this is obvious: delete your facebook account if your Oculus is lost or stolen... I might be inclined to just delete my Facebook altogether if I were an Oculus owner.
Just the world we want...
getting unemployment is the least interesting or relevant part of this entire debacle.
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Yet again, you still haven't refuted anything Hitchens claimed, even though you claim to be familiar with it. Obviously you can't refute them, because if you could, you would have already, after I originally asked you to refute what he said that you don't agree with. Now you're asking me for a refutation (but of what??!), just like Trump incoherently projecting his own lies onto other people, after you refused to refute anything that Hitchens said, or even state what he said that you disagree with. So why should I answer your vague demand to refute some unspecified claim, after you failed to answer the specific question I asked first? You're the one who's denying reality and dodging questions. The ball's in your court to refute what Hitchens said, before demanding I refute some hypothetical claims you won't even identify.
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> annealing algorithm in the release build to reorder

This is a damn cool use of simulated annealing.
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The underlying data collection approach is similar however, our focus in application performance monitoring for developers and Sysdig's focus is on container level security & monitoring for devops,devsecops (@Sysdig folks please correct me if I am wrong :) )

Sysdig was a pioneer in harvesting data from the kernel. Their original solution required installing a kernel module and they are now moving to eBPF based approaches. The Falco project is really exciting.

Since we're a relatively new project (started 2 years ago) we started with eBPF and built our platform around it. As we open source we'll share with groups like Falco and hopefully collaborate.
If there's anything I can do to help, hit me up. I think my email is on my profile. If not, it's my username at gmail.
That's not true though, Apple does make the devices, but the user owns them, and therefore has the legal right to install whatever they wish. Apple does not have control over this, as evidenced by the legality ruling of jailbreaking.

>Apple makes the devices, they are 100% legally allowed to only allow apps from their own App Store and that precedent has already been set.

This is false. As proven time and time again, the Device Owner has full legal control after purchase.

It is monopolistic behavior due to the scope of the control from Apple. The devices are the owner's property, and it is monopolistic for them to implement software/policies/hardware blocks, that prevent users from using the devices as they see fit.

Take a simplistic example, Keurig. Keurig tried to prevent users from using any other coffee pod besides theirs. There is precedent to these monopoly lawsuits.

https://time.com/2913062/k-cups-war/

https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/consumer-pro....
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No, the upper level person in question is overbooked with being in charge of 1/3 or 1/2 of the company's employees. My personal opinion is that person was given too much responsibility too quickly and is in over their head. When my team came into their purview they told us they wanted to spend as little time as possible on my team, and I've deferred to that statement.
> The whole of the country looks like an unmitigated virus failure. Some states are worse off, but only a fraction look positive.

It looks like the big coastal states are about 1.5 to 2x better in terms of cases per capita than the interior states. That's a Big majority of the US population. I would imagine it's also more impactful due to sparser ICU capacity.
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You are correct. OP is spreading conspiracy theories.
Standard Oil was broken up over 100 years ago and Bell System took 70 years of antitrust complaints (the last case ran through courts for over a decade!) and even then Bell eventually caved and broke themselves up.

Never say never and all that...but it's not like past precedence has shown us the courts are trigger happy when it comes to breaking up monopolies.
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The biggest challenge for the antitrust lawyers in this case will be to outline consumer harm. In more traditional cases harm is measured in dollars. Here it will have to be measured in privacy, free speech, etc. And that’s a much harder case to make. I even wonder if it’s possible to argue that services for which you don’t pay (Fb, Insta, and Whatsapp) and that are not essential can be considered monopolistic.
Part of the appeal of the iOS App Store is that end users are partially shielded from developers who believe it’s their inalienable right to make apps to try to profit off of them.
The Mac CI situation has gotten much worse this year, but Swift has gotten much better. Writing a large app in Swift is still a major undertaking, but there are people doing it these days.
Yeah, but what are the odds of Uber having hired a whole raft of that class of dev?
The immigration/refugee deal the EU made with Turkey made quite clear that morals don't matter as much as economy.
> Not to mention that what someone learned in uni a decade ago is probably not applicable anymore whatsoever (in tech).

Working all night to meet a deadline is applicable. You learn dedication at university.

University also teaches you to take a risk on something long term. You pay a bunch of money, and work hard without compensation for a number of years, hoping it will pay off somehow. Your risk not making the grade and dropping out, losing the investment of time and money.

I remember one assignment which was implementing floating-point addition in 68K assembly code. (Third year course on machine architectures.) Code was executed on an emulator that could provide cycle counts, and there was a cycle count maximum to meet on certain test cases.

Now the permanent lesson here wasn't 68K coding, and that's not what the experience memorable. Rather, the day before the assignment was due, the prof surprisingly dropped the cycle count requirements to significantly lower values. Everyone had to scramble to squeeze their code down, even those who had not procrastinated at all and completed their code days in advance. We learned about dealing with a change in external requirements close to the deadline, and still making it.
I think people substitute a lot of these "flow-inducing activities" (require attention and alertness, often adrenaline-inducing too) because it temporarily stops the mental habit loops that fuel depression. It's hard to think about all the "should'ves" while dodging Escalade-driving, phone-distracted people on the highway or struggling on a crux move on some climbing route knowing your last piece of gear is 3-4m below you.

It's a nice escape, but I definitely think dealing with these feelings directly by talking them out with a therapist / journaling / meditation is the only way to deal with them effectively (although it's still hard)
I've bought stuff from two companies I like but seldom patronize this year, and in both cases they started sending me ads every day (usually I say no thanks, so either they didn't ask or they used dark patterns to get me to miss it).

Normally that's okay (it's not okay, but I roll my eyes and unsubscribe), but I've discovered that when my order is delayed, due to out of stock in one case, or Black Friday queuing in the other, I'm really not happy having them prompt me to buy more stuff when they haven't given me the stuff I've already paid for. Each email title gives me a jolt of excitement thinking oh, they've finally shipped it! Nope, they want me to buy more stuff.

And with large departments running multiple campaigns at once, it's not uncommon to get 5 emails in a week, all for different things, which to them makes sense but to me is the titular company acting like a hyperkinetic, needy friend. It is very much the same dynamic that results in every department of a company insisting that they are listed on the company home page, preferably at the top, a common trope for beleaguered UI designers to relate over beers. Not just because of Conway's Law, but because of an internal perverse incentive structure to constantly draw attention to your part of the organization. Lookatmelookatmelookatme.

I find this whole pattern of behavior exceptionally unattractive in luxury brands, which I expect to be more cool and collected than this. Marketing in these cases is jeopardizing the 'get them to come back' part of the equation.
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I first misread "goat tied to the inside of the fence" as meaning tied to a post in the center of the circle, and was confused at why everyone thought this question was so hard.
Agreed.

FYI that's exactly what they did when they broke up Ma Bell into the 7 RBOC's. Same company, same massive infrastructure. They owned everything and the government was still able to break them up.
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Yes, and the idea that those could be stolen is the process working as intended. The fact that they could be stolen and little recourse would be possible is the incentive for companies to apply for patents, which are supposed to be better for the public good that trade secrets.
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Here's the Threader (i.e. Twitlonger) thread for anyone who wants to read the whole thing: https://threader.app/thread/1336890442768547845
Honestly I feel that those that are desirous for knowledge and want to become a well-rounded and get a liberal education are the ones that are going to go out and learn and gather knowledge regardless of whether or not they went to school.

Whereas those that view college as a tool of securing employment complain about the classes and feel they are a waste of time, resulting in them not getting much out of it anyway.

I agree teachers are important, but does a teacher have to be someone that sits and lectures in a classroom? If I am interested in OS theory I can join the Linux mailing list, ask questions on Linux development forums, heck if I ask a good question I may even have Linus himself take a minute to respond to my question.

Beyond that from my understanding many of the "teachers" at the college level are Grad students assigned to teach a class and that professors view it as a chore.

Not that I am totally against teachers or traditional education, I just think that one can acquire all of the benefits of a liberal education without ever needing to set foot in a classroom in this day and age.
I have to say, this comment is quite ridiculous. Might as well say that Google is simple because it's just an app with one search field.

I never work for Uber but I can easily imagine the following problems:

* Map data is not a solved problem. Tons of inaccurate data especially on non-english speaking countries.

* As someone mentioned about payments, different country requires different payment platform integrations.

* Payment is just one aspect of money, you need to build a treasure-like logic to run a marketplace between drivers and passengers.

* The matchmaking algorithm itself is interesting enough problem. It has to be efficient for the company to make the most amount of money.

* Tons of internal data are produced and required to be understood. This requires ML/data analytic talents.
The same market where Apple controls 50% under tight lock and key?

And access to those consumers is controlled by a non-government entity for everything they do? All commerce impacting their entire life up and down the stack?

Apple is the biggest monopoly since Ma Bell and Standard Oil.

They're owning people. Whole entities. You have to go through Apple to do business with them.
When taking about probabilities, one usually can recognize a reasonable threshold. In practice we do exactly that with most of the medicine: there could be some small chance that somebody can have health problems because his body responds unfavorably to the medicine, but if that chance is small enough it is considered acceptable when the potential benefits overweight the potential loss when the medicine is not used, its use is allowed. If the chance is big enough (i.e. potentially too many people will be affected) such a medicine is not allowed to be used, at least with the affected group of people.

The same is with the possibility that a vaccinated person infects somebody else. There is some point behind which it could be said that some vaccine has "sterilizing immunity" even if some small level of viruses could be present somewhere. For the current vaccine, the question is if the viral load in some point after the infection is decreased at all, and if it is, how much.

At the moment, however, it's simply not known if, in this case, Pfizer vaccine provides sterilizing level of immunity, if, then when, and in which percentage of the vaccinated. At the moment more or less we just know that the vaccinated are less probable to develop symptoms. Efficacy of 95% here means only one of 20 vaccinated develops symptoms when exposed to the virus, so we know that it's also probable that at least 1 in 20, even after being vaccinated, could be able to infect somebody else while being in the "pre-symptomatic" phase (as it is believed by the researchers that one transmits the virus before one's symptoms starts). We also believe that asymptomatic are also able to transmit. We don't know how much the vaccine affects the transmission that could occur when a vaccinated person is exposed to an infected one, and then later comes in close contact with other unvaccinated persons.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN and stop breaking the site guidelines? You've been doing it a lot and we ban that sort of account. I don't want to ban you because your good comments are good, but the bad comments are like mercury: they build up in the system and poison things.

The rules apply regardless of how bad or wrong another comment is, or you feel it is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This has been done for decades - long before HTTP took over as the standard we had sites like ftp.cdrom.com and ftp.kernel.org. Usually this is done by using a DNS that either is localized to your or round robin DNS. There were many times when I remember logging into ftp.kernel.org and being surprised that I was connected to a server in Finland, Europe, or Japan. Wasn’t the smartest thing, but with more advanced DNS services, it certainly seems possible.
A negative / unpopular take: like air in a balloon a startup company will grow as large as its capital allows as it is purposefully using this capital to grow faster than natural market forces allow. In other words it has a big engineering team because it raised capital to get a big engineering team. Craigslist is a great example of bucking the trend in this regard.

A more positive take: if you look at the specifics of how many regions Uber is (was) in, and that each region has cities each of which have wildly different regulatory environments, you can imagine the permutations of complexity they had to deal with. Then you add in growing internal business experiments like Eats or mobility (Jump) and it's easy to see how this balloons out of control pretty fast.
Well he also uses the GNU/Lightbulb, so that's a yes
> > This terrified the Swift compiler engineers, they were worried that untested complier pass orders would expose untested bugs

> This would scare me too.

For what it's worth a few (10ish) years ago we did this with the J9 compiler at IBM (technically just the backed that was shared between Java, C++, etc). Same idea with simulated annealing. It did end up finding some really strange bugs, but they were bugs that were present regardless, we just hadn't found the right test case for it. We did end up getting some performance out of it, but not nearly as much as you'd expect. It mostly boiled down to running a few extra constant folding passes.
I know. However, back then testing also was getting security fixes with 24h deadline but, since Debian got much bigger, it became unfeasible and abandoned, no biggie.

I always deploy current stable to any production server and I keep my desktop systems in rolling testing.
We've had a case like that in one of previous jobs. It was not very bad. The key is correct procedure.

We've had required code reviews for every bit of code written. Those are always harder for the new people, but exactly how hard depends on the person. I have seen PR reviews which require major things like "let's refactor those changes into separate class with proper interfaces". And the good old "this code is too hard to understand, let's simplify"

As for CSV story -- if you new people can go off for weeks and work on new project without talking to anyone, there is something wrong with your org. You want to have status meetings periodically (weekly? every sprint?) where everyone talks what they are working on, and what difficulties are they facing. Those are really great -- they let the team feel together, they let people whom to ask for help, and they may help discover hidden talents.

And we did have people who would spend time doing integration with their favorite IDE's build system. It is not quite "maven vs ant" -- but if this helps them be more productive, why not! Of course this would be still optional, so other people would not have to use this, and it is up to them to maintain the integration.
Clojure is quite maintainable, a well-written Clojure program is small and clear, easy to modify. Pervasive immutability is a huge win; Clojure programs are big on referential integrity.

There's some doublespeak going on here.

When "leadership" says "maintainable" what they mean is that the project is recoverable after they frog march the project lead out the door, or lay off the team, or the team quits because the job blows. Their view of maintainability is dominated by Bus Factor and similar existential concerns, rather than agility experienced by the project's authors. They actually want the opposite of maintainable: Rigid and heavily specified.
I'm a relatively new programmer, but I've felt the way you have at least a little. Work just drained the enjoyment out of programming. What helped me is to get back to my side projects BUT to start really small. Pick a small project, even just a day or weekend build. For me, that sense of accomplishment, even though so many other people have made so much more amazing stuff than me, it made remember why I love programming. And when I start to get bored, I just force myself to watch a tutorial or two or add one small feature, and I get reminded again.

Of course, it could be you need to find a completely different hobby to fulfil you. Only you can say what position you're in, whether you just need to reignite your passion for programming or whether it's gone for good.
Huh, made with Vue/Vuex + map via VueLayers (OpenLayers wrapper). Actual radar data is coming from a geoserver at https://preview-opengeo.ncep.noaa.gov/geoserver/

AGOL (ArcGIS Online) is only providing the basemap and layer overlays (state boundaries etc), those probably come from Esri's "public" data portal and I doubt are part of the bandwidth issue.
I mean, I think the worst part is the implicit loss of privacy baked into tying the accounts and the eventual data goldmine VR/AR will be for FB.

I think you're complaint is valid and I'm sure you don't mean it this way but... comments like this rub me wrong because that can be fixed with a better system, and likely will when enough people complain. It gets in the way of sharing and spreading VR which I'm sure they want to do.

Once it's fixed it will be another step on the path to saying "well FB's privacy in VR isn't as bad as it used to be!" and that's the road to acceptance.
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I am not part of that team, but there are two possible answers: Experience and Motivation. CentOS should provide some experience, best practices, etc., for guidance. CentOS Stream should provide for some motivation, if it really turna out that it cannot be used as a replacement for CentOS 8.
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I absolutely love these stories.

Sticking with something when you're bored of it, and it's not providing much return, aint easy.
> Do you consider this to be a good thing? Doing the same now, and wondering if it’s okay.

It probably does, but not in the way you might expect - takes you out of despair, but not out of the burnout.

I keep this cartoon in my bookmarks, because it says it better.

http://www.lunarbaboon.com/comics/miserable.html
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> With Java, your convoluted mess can be parsed by IDE and you can figure out what it is doing.

This is not my experience whatsoever.
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